Unlicensed driver caught in King's Lynn takeaway car park, court told

A North Lynn man who drove a friend’s car around a McDonald’s car park was found to be have been drinking and had no licence.

Town magistrates were told on Monday that Alfie Ronald Juby was in an Audi A1 at the drive-thru restaurant in Hardwick Road.

The 21-year-old, of Estuary Close, failed a roadside breath test and was arrested.

A subsequent evidential reading showed 82 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

Prosecutor Josephine Jones said: “Police checks showed that the defendant was not insured and did not have a valid driving licence.”

Juby pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol, having no insurance and driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence on November 18.

Mitigating, George Sorrell said a friend of Juby’s had invited the sheeter to try out the car by driving it in the car park.

He added: “When I asked him why, he gave a very good reply: ‘I was being very silly’. That sums it up, really. I know many young people – and young men, in particular – have an interest in cars but this was a stupid thing to have done.”

Juby was banned from driving for 21 months, which can be reduced with successful completion of a drink-driver’s rehabilitation course.

He was fined £320 for the no insurance offence. There was no separate penalty for having no licence but when he gains one it will be endorsed.

An order was made for Juby to pay £85 costs and a £32 victim surcharge.