A Tenby man has been banned from driving after having one too many at the local golf club.
Magistrates at Haverfordwest on Tuesday, heard that Maurice Lewis, of Heywood Court, had been at Tenby Golf Club during the afternoon of Saturday, January 17. At 3.20 pm, local police received information that Mr. Lewis was about to leave the club in his Hyundai estate motor car and was said to have been drinking.
Police spotted the vehicle an hour later driving up Heywood Lane and followed it into Heywood Court, where Mr. Lewis was reversing into his driveway. Officers approached the driver in his car and could smell alcohol on his breath and asked Mr. Lewis to provide a sample, which showed him as being over the legal limit.
Pleading guilty to the charge, 69-year-old Mr. Lewis, a retired bus driver for handicapped children, accepted that he should not have been driving, while his solicitor explained to the magistrates that his actions were totally out of character.
Mr. Lewis was disqualified from driving for 17 months and ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling £225.