Using a mobility scooter while more than three times the drink-drive limit landed a pensioner in court.
David Hutchinson had been drinking the night before to celebrate his 65th birthday.
He admitted a charge of being drunk in charge of a pedal cycle at Red Lodge when he appeared before magistrates at Bury St Edmunds.
As the mobility scooter is not classed as a mechanically propelled vehicle, he was prosecuted for being drunk in charge of a bicycle. The court heard that at the time of the offence, Hutchinson was already the subject of a suspended prison sentence for driving a car while disqualified and with excess alcohol.
Magistrates extended the period of his suspended four-month prison sentence by three months, ordered him to pay a £75 fine and £100 costs
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