A Ramsey woman who drove while more than three times the drink-drive limit has been banned for six years and handed a suspended sentence.

Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes sentenced Charlotte Ann Pattison, of Royal Park, to 12 weeks’ custody, suspended for two years.

Pattison, who is 32, failed a breathalyser test with a reading of 110 - the legal limit is 35.

We previously reported how, on November 20 at 8.30pm, a member of the public went to Ramsey police station and reported following a Volkswagen which was being driven badly. The witness said Pattison was ’speeding up and slowing down’ and ’swerving’ as she drove.

Police went to Pattison’s home where she was said to have appeared intoxicated.

At 8.45pm she was arrested and taken to police headquarters where she failed the breathalyser test. When interviewed, Pattison told police she had bought two bottles of wine earlier in the day.

She said she had driven to an appointment at 7pm then left to go home at 7.50pm.

She claimed she got home at 8.20pm and had then drunk one of the bottles of wine before police arrived.

Pattison’s mother told police her daughter was ’wobbly’ and ’staggering’ when she got home. She said her daughter had not drunk at home and that she had found two bottles of wine in the car, one empty and one still full.

Advocate Paul Glover asked for credit to be given for his client’s guilty plea and the fact that she was ’lightly convicted’.

Mr Glover said: ’If she addresses her drinking then her likelihood of reoffending drops dramatically. She accepts she has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and uses it as a coping mechanism.’

Mr Glover said Pattison was the sole carer for her daughter and was seeing Motiv8. A probation report described her as a ’vulnerable young woman’.

’This has been the wake up call she’s needed,’ said Mr Glover. ’She has been scared into realising that she needs to change. The penny has well and truly dropped.’

Mrs Hughes said it was an ’extremely high reading’ aggravated by witnesses’ descriptions of Pattison’s driving.

’You could have caused injury or death, not only to yourself but others,’ said the Deputy High Bailiff.

Mrs Hughes said that there were just grounds to suspend the sentence due to the contents of the doctor’s report, the fact that Pattison had taken steps to get help and the impact custody would have on her young daughter.

Pattison was banned from entering licensed premises and purchasing or being sold alcohol for 12 months and must retake her test after the ban and attend a drink-drive rehabilitation course.