Caught Drink Driving - Advice needed

Merdit

Hi I just need to know your thoughts. Before you say anything I couldn't feel worse or more sorry, in fact I think I'm actually going to have a nervous breakdown I'm so shook up and traumatised.

I'm an alcoholic, I've been in recovery for 8 years but in the last month I fell off the wagon badly. Last week I went for one drink and then had another and another. I onlu live around the corner and thought I'll ring my partner to walk up and take the car home. After that I dont' remember anything but here's what happened.

I got in my car and got lost and ended up driving around for 20 mins and crashed the car into a ditch. I reversed out of the ditch - and I only know all this as my partner was on the phone to me and I was telling him what was going on. The tyre was shredded and I drove on the wheel rim to a village and pulled in. The guards came along, I got out of the car, they asked me was a drinking and I said yes. I was arrested and brought down the station and breathalysed at a reading of 68mcg.

I'm in court in two weeks and have got a solicitor who said to plead not guilty (he specialises in drink driving cases) and he will try to get me off although it doesn't look good.

I'm tortured with fear at the moment. Have I been advised correctly and should I just go and plead guilty and accept whatever. I know its a 3 year ban (it is a first offence) and my solicitor says that if I go and plead guilty without him looking at the evidence then its game over.

I know I deserve this but I'll have to move house, possibly my job will find out and I'll be fired and I'm just feeling so fragile and cannot stop shaking and crying. I hate myself for this. I'm back in recovery and feeling very broken. Is challenging this only going to do me more harm?

nuac

Mod
Solicitor time. Talk to your solicitor about all this. Cannot give legal advice here
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