A drink-driver from Ballasalla has been jailed for five months and banned from driving for six years.

Callum Thomas Radcliffe, aged 29, of The Sycamores, produced a result of 142 after a blood test. The legal limit is 80.

He pleaded guilty to drink-driving as well as driving while disqualified.

Other charges, of careless driving, failing to stop after an accident, and having no insurance which Radcliffe to which had pleaded not guilty were withdrawn.

The court heard that he has a previous conviction for drink-driving in 2014.

Prosecuting advocate Hazel Carroon told the court that Radcliffe was stopped by police on June 1 at 12pm while he was driving a BMW on the Peel coast road.

This was despite Radcliffe being disqualified in 2016 for 30 months with an order to retake his test, which he had not done.

Radcliffe had a provisional licence but did not have a qualified driver with him.

Defence advocate Peter Taylor said that his client was currently remanded in relation to other matters so he would have no means to pay any fine or be eligible for community service, which left custody as the only realistic option.

Mr Taylor said that Radcliffe had been drinking the night before he was stopped.

’He has misjudged the level of alcohol in his system,’ said the advocate.