A gin-swilling nurse was caught by police after she was spotted driving a BMW slowly around a roundabout.
Police officers became aware of Natalie Robinson at the roundabout in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, on October 10 as other motorists beeped their horns.
And when they pulled her over, the 42-year-old district nurse admitted she’d drank ‘four gins’ before getting behind the wheel.
A breath test revealed the mum had almost 150 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
NHS nurse Natalie Robinson, 42, was four times over the limit driving her BMW slowly on a roundabout in Stockton-on-Tees when police pulled her over on October 10
On Monday, Robinson appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court where she pleaded guilty to drink-driving.
Alan Davidson, prosecuting, said police were on patrol in Stockton shortly before 4pm when they heard ‘other members of the public beeping their horns’.
Officers then saw Robinson, who was in a white BMW on Romford Road, ‘driving slowly round a roundabout’.
Mr Davidson said other motorists were ‘taking actions to avoid her’.
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When officers pulled her over, she ‘appeared intoxicated’ and said she’d drank ‘four gins’.
After failing her roadside breath test, Robinson, who has no previous convictions, said she was ‘mortified’, the court heard.
Danielle Hewitt, defending, said that Robinson, of Ingleby Barwick, North Yorkshire, gave an extremely high reading but added there was ‘substantial mitigation’.
She said it was a certainty that Robinson would ‘never be before the courts again’.
Robson appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to drink driving. She will be sentenced at a later date.
Ms Hewitt said Robinson used alcohol as a ‘coping mechanism’ following an abusive relationship and said her job as a district nurse during the covid pandemic brought about ‘severe mental stress’.
‘She has had a very tough time…her alcohol issues got out of control’, she added.
The magistrates’ bench adjourned sentencing to a later date so that a pre-sentence report could be put together by the probation service.
Robinson will appear back at the court for sentence on December 8. She was given unconditional bail until that date as well as an interim driving ban.
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