A drink driver who led cops on a drunken high-speed chase after blasting past them in his works van close to Police HQ has been sentenced.
Murray Fotheringham was found with an empty bottle of wine, three bottles of Becks beer and four tubs of porridge on the floor of the van following the two-and-a-half mile chase through Dundee.
Fotheringham ran off after smashing the van, owned by his employers Angus Decorators, into a parked Audi TT, but was found hiding in undergrowth nearby.
He was then breathalysed and found to be four-and-a-half times the legal limit.
Fotheringham’s chase started outside Dundee’s central police headquarters where he drove at speeds of more than 60mph in a 30mph zone past a marked police car at Ladywell roundabout, on Dundee’s North Marketgait.
Fotheringham, 32, of South Victoria Dock Road, Dundee, pleaded guilty on summary complaint to charges of drink driving and dangerous driving, committed while on bail, on August 7.
Sheriff Alistair Carmichael banned Fotheringham from driving for four years, imposed a community payback order with two years’ supervision and 200 hours unpaid work.
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