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December 31st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Gavin Allen
Last updated at 4:14 PM on 21st December 2011
A woman recorded one of the highest drink drive readings ever in the UK after she was caught at the wheel of her car while six times over the limit.
Sharon Holton, 42, was found to have 210 microgrammes of alcohol on her breath after she was spotted in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. The legal limit is 35mcg.
Police had been alerted to Holton as she sat in her husband’s car with the keys in the ignition.
Tested: This actor was breathalised at the launch of a this year’s campaign to raise awareness of the new reduced drink drive limits
Holton, of Hamilton, was breathalysed and later charged with being in charge of the Audi A4 car.
Today a hearing at Hamilton Sheriff’s Court saw the shamed mother-of-two admit being in charge of the car on June 20 this year.
Sheriff
Carole Cunningham deferred sentence on her until next year and asked
prosecutors to inquire into the possibility of seizing the vehicle.
She delayed hearing the full facts of the case until then but imposed an immediate driving ban on Holton.
Defence
agent Tom Watters told the court police who had examined Holton had
found her to be lucid and able to walk without difficulty.
He added: ‘The car belongs to her husband Gerard and she has not driven since the incident.’
PREVIOUS HIGHS: CAUGHT OVER THE DRINK LIMIT
Among the previous highest recorded drink-drivers caught in Britain are:
Allison Knox, 37, from Ayrshire was jailed for 90 days after she was caught with 179 mgs on her breath.
Dinner lady Catherine Bickerdike, of Warton, Lancashire, was jailed for six months in 2005 after being found with 183 mgs on her breath.
Former aircraft engineer Murtagh Langton, 57, escaped jail in 2010 despite crashing his car while almost six times the limit with 194mg in 100ml of breath.
Holton has been blasted by drink drive campaigners who said they were ‘shocked’ at the scale of her offence.
Carole Whittingham, founder of the Campaign Against Drinking and Driving, called for Holton to be jailed.
Mrs Whittingham, whose son Steven, 27,
was killed by a drink driver in 1992, said: ‘I have never heard of a
reading this high and I am surprised this woman is still alive.
‘It
is absolutely appalling and it beggars belief that she thought she
could consume that amount of alcohol and still get behind the wheel of a
car.
‘I sincerely hope she is given a custodial sentence because the consequences of her actions could have been catastrophic.
‘I lost a son to drink driving and people who do it do not appreciate that it completely alters lives.
‘We won’t be celebrating Christmas this year because we can’t bear to when there is someone missing.’
Previous shocking drink drive cases include Ayrshire woman Allison Knox, 37, who was jailed for 90 days after she pleaded guilty to having 179 mgs on her breath.
One of the highest readings ever in the UK was given by school dinner lady Catherine Bickerdike, of Warton, Lancashire.
She was jailed for six months in 2005 after being found with 183 mgs on her breath.
In 2010 former aircraft engineer Murtagh Langton, 57, escaped jail despite crashing his car while almost six times the limit.
After failing a roadside test he was taken to a police station where he produced readings of 188mg and 194mg in 100ml of breath.
This week police revealed more than 100 people have been caught drink-driving in Scotland in the past week.
During the second week of a country-wide crackdown, 113 people were found to be driving over the legal alcohol limit, while another 14 were driving under the influence of drugs.
Strathclyde saw the most offenders, with 51 people caught driving under the influence of alcohol and a further eight people unfit through drugs.
The figures represented a slight dip from last year, when there were 119 drink-drivers and seven offenders who were unfit through drugs.
Holton refused to comment yesterday.
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Can’t bear drink drivers. Such a selfish thing to do.
Think all drink drivers should have a minimum of a 5 year ban, much much more if they injure or kill someone. 35 is too much should be 0.
20 years ago when i was a young child my dad was a drink driver and thank god he never hurt anyone but himself.
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Hell’s teeth!
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Woman caught… So why is your lame picture of a man, DM?
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So she was in charge of the car but it doesn’t say if she had driven or was going to drive the car Not that what she did was responsible or sensible in any way but I’m not sure a custodial sentence is right. She hasn’t driven since and is aware what she did was stupid
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What possible relevance to the article (about a case in Scotland) has the accompanying photo,which clearly shows a member of An Garda Síochána ?
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So why DM show a picture of a police officer breathalising a man?
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What is the reading equivalent to in number of drinks consumed? Otherwise the reading, while ridiculously high, doesn’t mean much without context.
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Typical ‘Buckfast Babe’. Deserves a ‘sobering’ jail sentence. Stupid ignorant excuse for a woman, perhaps she should also be made to look at photo’s of drink drive victims every day that she is ‘banged up’ !
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A lesson to us all at this time of year to be very wary of other drivers on the roads who might not usually drink drive but fall to temptation. I realise that this case is several months old but nonetheless we must be aware of what others may have done. Don’t forget to keep an eye on our friends who may be considering driving home after imbibing, we also have a social responsibility even if we don’t drink ourselves.
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Then why show a man being breath tested.
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