A JOINER will have domestic and work problems because he drove with nearly twice the legal amount of alcohol and lost his licence, York magistrates heard.

Kathryn Reeve, prosecuting, said a member of the public called police when they saw Samuel Dennis Gray trying to drive his car up a kerb with the engine revving in Navigation Road on November 7.

Mark Thompson, defending, said: “He has caused himself all sorts of problems by this matter.”

Gray, a self-employed joiner, had to drive to jobs, so could not work while he was banned from driving.

He also had to ferry his children on a regular basis to different destinations. Gray, of Water Lane, Dunnington, gave a reading of 68 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. He admitted drink-driving and was fined £150, with a £20 statutory surcharge, £85 prosecution costs and a 20-month ban.

District judge Adrian Lower told him: “Quite apart from the risk you posed to other people by your antisocial behaviour, you have brought punishment upon yourself.”