Top Personal Trainer Caught Sleeping Off Booze In Car

Hammersmith Magistrates Court

A personal trainer at an exclusive club, who needs his driving licence to visit clients at their country estates, was found by police passed out behind the wheel of his car while over the drinks limit.

Lonan O'Herlihy, 24, of Westwood House, Heathfield Avenue, Ascot, Berkshire had left the engine running for warmth and the lights on after pulling over for a kip in a petrol station parking area.

He pleaded guilty at Hammersmith Magistrates Court (pictured) to being in charge of a vehicle while over the alcohol limit - an offence that does not result in automatic disqualification – and was fined £200, with £85 costs, ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and was given 10 penalty points on his licence.

The court heard O'Herlihy's Audi R8 was parked in the forecourt of Tesco's, New King's Road, Fulham at 3.30am on April 10.

“The defendant was slumped over the steering wheel and he told police he was using the car to keep warm and admitted he had a few drinks that night,” said prosecutor Miss Helen Clutton.

He gave a breath-test reading of 50 microgrammes of alcohol – the legal limit is 35.

Oxford-educated O'Herlihy, who resides in a £2.5m property, and was chosen for the university's rowing and tennis teams while studying at Malvern College, is employed by Belgravia's White Room Fitness.

“I was parked and trying to sleep,” O'Herlihy told the court. “I was asleep in a parking spot and I had been there for two hours.

“I do use my car for work, I'm a personal trainer and in marketing and many of my clients are in country houses, where I spend a couple of days a week.”