Driver Caught After Cocktail Of Booze

A civil engineer, who has a “memory blank” concerning the night he downed a cocktail of wine, gin and vodka shots and jumped behind the wheel of his car, was banned from the roads yesterday.

Jan Lech Marchlewski, 25, was stopped by police at 4.45am while three times the drink-drive limit after drinking all evening at a restaurant and then a nightclub.

He pleaded guilty at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court (pictured) to driving his Alfa Romeo with excess alcohol in his breath in Rigault Road, Fulham on January 20.

Prosecutor Miss Rav Choda told the court police turned and followed Marchlewski when they saw him speeding around a corner and when they pulled him over noticed one of his tyres was flat.

His breath smelled of alcohol and he failed a roadside breath-test.

The court heard Marchlewski enjoyed wine and two or three gins with dinner then another four to five gins at a club, plus vodka shots.

He was driving to McDonald's when stopped by the police.
Marchlewski was fined £627, with £85 costs and ordered to pay a £62 victim surcharge. He was also disqualified from driving for eighteen months.