Three-year ban for Wick drink-driver three times over limit
A Wick man who drove while disqualified and more than three times the legal alcohol limit has been fined £1500 and banned from driving for three years.
Darren Coghill pleaded guilty on Tuesday at Wick Sheriff Court, and was also ordered to carry out unpaid community work.
The 30-year-old was stopped by police on the A874 between Lochshell and Thurso, late on June 26.
He volunteered to police officers that he had been drinking earlier. Coghill, of Loch Street, Wick, provided a positive breath test and a follow-up test revealed a reading of 75mg – the legal limit is 22mg.
Fiscal David Barclay said that the accused had been banned from driving for six months earlier in the year.

Sheriff Robert Fraser noted that according to a social worker who prepared a background report, Coghill was "somewhat naive" and lacked insight into his offending.
The sheriff described the drink driving offence as "a very serious matter" and observed that the reason such a report was requested at an earlier hearing, before a different sheriff, might have indicated that a custodial sentence was being considered.
The sheriff also commented on the "very high" level of alcohol in Coghill's system.
The accused was fined £500 for driving while disqualified and because he had breached bail was ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid community work.
Coghill, who admitted a record, was further fined £1000 and banned for three years for driving with excess alcohol.