Drink-drive Tyrone mum had young child in the car while she was almost three times over the limit
A Co Tyrone woman caught driving while almost three times the legal drink limit and with her five-year-old child in the car, has lost her licence for four years.
Theresa Trainor, aged 46, from Washingbay Road, Coalisland, was also fined £300 with a £15 offender's levy for driving while having consumed excess alcohol.
District Judge Francis Rafferty told Trainor that she was three times the limit and to have her five-year-old child in the car was “a disgrace”.
Mr Rafferty warned if she appeared before him again she would receive a custodial sentence.
Prosecuting counsel told Dungannon Magistrates Court that on October 4, at approximately 11pm, police received a report of a suspected drink driver at Mullaghmore Road heading in the direction of Dungannon.
The lawyer said police stopped and spoke to the defendant who had four other passengers in the vehicle including a five-year-old child.
Counsel said police noted there was a smell of intoxicating liquor and that the defendant’s eyes were glazed.
She said she provided a preliminary breath test which she failed and was arrested and taken to Strabane custody, where she provided an evidential specimen which showed an alcohol count of 98 mcgs per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 mcgs.
A defence solicitor said the defendant was at home not intending to go out when she received a call from her daughter that her lift had let her down and she decided to Donaghmore and get her.
He explained that Trainor has three children and had cooperated with police and apologised to the court.