Dalton man to be sentenced after third drink driving conviction this year
Scott Faulkner will appear before court on October 30th to be sentenced
A man from Dalton-in-Furness has admitted to three separate counts of drink driving in Cumbria in the past year.
Cumbria Police stopped a car on the A590 near Haverthwaite on Wednesday night (October 8th), after the driver was seen acting suspiciously.
The driver - 50-year-old Scott Faulkner - was found to be a disqualified driver after two separate drink-drive convictions.
Scott, who holds no fixed abode but has ties with both Dalton-in-Furness and Salford in Greater Manchester, was found by police both times to be over double the legal alcohol limit.
He received his first drink-driving conviction in June, whilst receiving his second just two months later in August, which was only made worse by the fact he only held a provisional driving licence.
Suspecting that Scott could be inebriated again, police stopped the car and breathalised him, only to find he was over three times the legal alcohol limit to drive. While the limit is 35 in the UK, Scott had a score of 121.
He was eventually arrested, and reports from his time in custody found he was well over double the legal limit to drink before operating the car.
As a result, Faulkner was charged with drink driving, disqualified driving and driving without insurance.
He appeared before Barrow Magistrates' Court on Thursday (October 9th) through a videolink from Kendal police station, admitting to all three counts made against him.
The presiding judge, taking into consideration the previous convictions he had against him, remanded Faulkner into police custody and will be formally sentenced on October 30th at the same court.