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A 22-year-old electrician who arrived in the island while over the legal alcohol limit has admitted drinking and driving.
Christopher William James Caine had come to Jersey from Liverpool on 27 August to work – but the Magistrate’s Court heard that he was stopped by Customs Officers as he came through Elizabeth Terminal in his grey Volkswagen Golf.
They smelt alcohol and his breath and alerted police. A breath test at police headquarters gave a reading of 58 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal maximum is 35 micrograms.
Relief Magistrate Sarah Fitz fined him £1,600 and banned him from the roads in Jersey for 15 months.
She allowed him to pay the fine at the rate of £200 per month.
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