A Narberth drink-driver has been banned from getting behind the wheel of a vehicle for 18 months and ordered to pay a total of £820 in fines and costs after admitting the charge in court.
Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Alan Quartermaine, of Halkon Crescent, appeared at Haverfordwest magistrates court on Tuesday, to plead guilty to a charge of driving a vehicle with 86 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the prescribed limit.
He was also charged with using the vehicle on a public road without third party insurance.
Prosecutor Sian Vaughan said that Mr. Quartermaine was stopped by police officers in the Peugeot 206 he was driving at 3.45 am, on September 11, at Salutation Square in Haverfordwest, an area where drink-drivers were frequently caught, magistrates heard.
Mr. Quartermaine, who was currently subject to a 12-month community order for assault, offered “no excuses” for the offence, his solicitor Kate Williams told the court.
“He is a young man who is a construction ground worker at a local property firm. He has no excuses and took a chance driving a friend home,” she said.
Magistrates disqualified the defendant from driving for 18 months and fined him £350 for the drink-driving offence.
Mr. Quartermaine was also fined £350 for having no insurance and his licence was endorsed with six penalty points.
He was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £35 victim surcharge.