CARER Keith Pullen was breathtested after he pulled out of car park without lights and found to be more than double the legal drink-drive limit.
Pullen (51), of Porthouse Drive, Pinchbeck, was stopped in St Paul’s Road, Spalding, by a passing police officer at 7.10pm on March 19.
Rebecca Ritson, prosecuting, said a test showed he had 80 microgrammes of alcohol in breath – the legal limit is 35 mcgs.
Pullen was banned from driving for 20 months, fined £110 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £15 victim surcharge.
He can cut five months off the ban if he completes a rehabilitation course.
Pullen pleaded guilty at Thursday’s hearing.
Solicitor Daven Naghen, mitigating, said Pullen suffers from pancreatitis and has “a compromised liver”, which means his body doesn’t process alcohol as well as healthy people do.
He drank only a small amount that day but had been drinking the day before.
Mr Naghen said it wasn’t a deliberate act to be over the limit.
The loss of his licence would have a significant impact upon him and his work as a carer.