Driving Red Card For Boozy Ex-Footballer

A once promising footballer, caught driving his Mercedes outside Buckingham Palace at over three times the drinks limit, has been banned from the roads for two years.

Zambia-born Gabriel Bwalya Kunda, 29, came through Charlton Athletic’s youth system before the midfielder's talents took him to Spain’s Atletico Madrid.

After spells with Valencia and Real Zaragoza Kunda returned to south-east London and is now living within five miles of The Valley, where his footballing journey began.

Kunda, of Finchale Road, Abbey Wood pleaded guilty to driving the silver Mercedes in the Mall on December 29, last year with 111 micrograms of alcohol in his breath.

The legal limit is 35.

At Westminster Magistrates Court he was sentenced to a two-month Community Order, which includes an electronically-monitored home curfew for the same period between 9.00pm and 5.00am.

Kunda was also disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £95 victim surcharge.