A retired cleaner who was too drunk to be served alcohol in a supermarket got in her car and drove home then did the same thing again a month later.
Claire Allan, 60, was turned away by staff at Tesco twice within weeks and both times she stunned them by staggering into her car and driving off.
Allan who retired from a cleaning job after inheriting a fortune narrowly avoided being sent to prison after she admitted identical drink-driving offences in June and July.
At Perth Sheriff Court, Allan, of Knowehead Terrace, Scone, admitted driving while nearly three times the limit on June 6 and more than twice the limit on July 9. Both offences took place on Perth Road, Scone, just 250 metres from her home. She also admitted failing to appear at court on July 7.
Solicitor Cliff Culley, defending, said: “She has reached 60 with no previous convictions and has then got three offences in a short period of time. She appreciates that because there are two drink-driving offences in a short period of time, it becomes much more serious.”
Allan was fined £1,000, banned from driving for three years and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
