A drink driver was snared after he was spotted travelling with a defective brake light - while on route to get more booze.
Despite having already had a couple of cans of lager, Jamie Stewart got behind the wheel of his Vauxhall Astra in order to go to a shop to buy more alcohol. However, due to his brake lights not working properly, the 49-year-old soon came to the attention of a police officer, a court was told.
Stewart, of Prior Road, in Berwick, was stopped on Dene Drive, also in the Northumberland town, and was arrested after he failed a roadside breath test. He has now been banned from the roads for 17 months after he appeared at South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court to plead guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
