A serial drink driver found more than three-times the limit in Aberdeen city centre has been banned from the road for 40 months.
Nerijus Peciukevicius was spotted by police driving erratically on King Street in Aberdeen during the early hours of April 26 and found to be over the alcohol limit when officers stopped him.
The 30-year-old was warned by Sheriff Graeme Napier that he could easily have been sent to prison over the offence, his third drink-driving conviction.
Peciukevicius admitted driving with 70 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 22 microgrammes.
Fiscal depute Alan Townsend told Aberdeen Sheriff Court police observed a vehicle “being driven erratically” at around 4.30am.
The vehicle was stopped and Peciukevicius was found to be the driver.
He thereafter failed a breath test and provide the 70 microgrammes reading between 5.20am and 6.20am.
Defence agent David Sutherland said his client maintained he had only drunk two pints ahead of the incident.
However the solicitor said Peciukevicius was conscious of the prospect of going to prison over the matter because it was his third conviction.
Sheriff Napier, addressing Peciukevicius directly, said: “I take it you don’t particularly want to go to prison?”
Peciukevicius said he did not and the sheriff continued: “That’s where you will end up, you understand that? I’m sure you’ve been warned of that before.
“This is a third offence within a relatively short period of time.
“I’d be justified in sending you to prison for this but I think I can impose an alternative.”
He ordered Peciukevicius, whose address was given in court papers as Linksfield Place in Aberdeen, to be banned from driving for a period of 40 months.
Sheriff Napier also imposed an eight-month restriction of liberty order for Peciukevicius to be within his home address between certain hours.
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