Social Worker Caught Drink-Driving

Bromley Magistrates Court

A midnight drink-driver, pulled over by police who saw her Mercedes travelling “extremely cautiously,” has been banned from the roads.

Social worker Cherlene Gwekwerere, 37, of Rangefield Road, Bromley was also fined £120, with £85 costs and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.

The single-mum, who is in receipt of Universal Credit, pleaded guilty to driving the black 1.5 litre diesel vehicle in Wickham Street, Welling on February 12.

Prosecutor Mr Subhanur Chowdhury told Bromley Magistrates Court last month
it was twenty minutes after midnight when police spotted Gwekwerere driving “extremely cautiously and slowly.”

She was stopped and failed a roadside breath-test.

At Lewisham Police Station the first-time offender blew a reading of 53 microgrammes of alcohol in her breath.

The legal limit is 35.

The court heard Gwekwerere, who admitted drinking earlier that day, was employed as a Family Support Worker and needed her car to transport her clients.

The court was also told Gwekwerere was “profusely sorry” for the offence.