A drink-driver who was getting off the ferry has been fined £1,000 and banned from the roads for a year.

Fifty-seven-year-old Sarah Spurdens was arrested after disembarking the Manannan from Liverpool.

Deputy High Bailiff Rachael Braidwood also ordered her to take an extended driving test after her ban ends.

Prosecuting advocate Annie Bannister told the court that police and port security officers were at the Sea Terminal on May 5, at 9.35pm, when the ferry arrived from Liverpool.

They received information from an off-duty police officer that Spurdens had been drinking while onboard.

She was stopped in the search area in a red BMW.

Officers described her as smelling of alcohol and she failed a roadside breathalyser test.

Spurdens was arrested and taken to police headquarters, but there was a delay in her taking a test there.

The test at police headquarters produced a result of 36, above the legal limit of 35.

When interviewed, Spurdens, of Main Road, said that she had drunk the evening prior to driving, then woke at 7am and drove from Suffolk to Liverpool.

She said at 4pm she ate at a carvery and shared a bottle of wine with her husband, then had a small bottle of wine on the ferry.

A back calculation established that at the time of driving, the reading would not have been less than 45.

She was represented in court by advocate Paul Glover.

Deputy High Bailiff Ms Braidwood told the defendant: 'You knew you were going to drive, but you shared a bottle of wine, plus an additional glass.

'That's an extraordinary amount to be drinking if you knew you would be driving.'

Spurdens was also ordered to pay £125 prosecution costs and will pay at a rate of £100 per month.