A jazz trumpeter was caught at more than three times the limit for drink driving while feeling the blues after his wife left him. James Lyons was clocked crawling along a road near his Timperley home at 10mph, Manchester Magistrates Court heard yesterday (June 15).
The 63-year-old told magistrates 'it certainly won't happen again' after he was banned from getting behind the wheel for the second time in eight years. Lyons drove to a Nisa convenience store after binging on spirits in his kitchen, despite only living a five-minute walk away from the shop, the court heard.
Officers found Lyons 'clearly intoxicated' in a car park. The trumpet and double bass player, who trained at the London College of Music, blew a reading of 119 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - with the legal limit being 35mg.
