A drink driver who was caught in Brighton in the early hours of Christmas Day has been banned from the roads for two years.
Danielle Malley, 28, was arrested at 2am on Thursday 25 December in Nuthurst Place, Whitehawk, after officers saw her driving her Volkswagen Up very slowly with a flat tyre.
Sussex Police said: “When officers stopped her she was also carrying a small kitchen knife in her boot.
“She was then found to have 99 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of her breath – almost three times the 35 micrograms legal limit.”
Malley, of St Michael’s Road, Portslade, pleaded guilty to drink driving and having a knife when she appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday (10 June).
She was banned from driving for 26 months and ordered to pay £250 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
She was also made the subject of a 12-month supervision order and told to do 200 hours of community service.
The case against Aaron Macdonald, 43, of Clarendon Villas, Hove, who had been charged with being in charge of a vehicle while unfit through drugs, and Candice Henriques, 30, of The Bricky, Peacehaven, who had been charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis, were dismissed by magistrates.
A total of 124 people have so far been convicted of offences as part of Operation Dragonfly in December – the annual Christmas crackdown on drink and drug driving.
A further eight people are still going through the courts.
