A disqualified driver has been warned he could be sent to prison after refusing to take a breath test after being caught behind the wheel for a third time.
Steven Clements, 28, was arrested after police stopped him driving a Fiat in Great Yarmouth late at night on December 12.
Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard he admitted to officers that he had been drunk driving but had failed to take a breathalyser telling them: “I’ve not got a licence so it doesn’t matter”.
Prosecutor Stuart Cowen said the waste company worker had still been banned from driving having previously been disqualified for 12 months in 2019 and again for 36 months in August 2022.
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Clements, of Wellesley Road, Great Yarmouth, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen, driving while disqualified and having no insurance.
James Burrows, mitigating, said he had made a bad mistake to drive the four minute journey home after drinking in the park.
“He understands the peril he is in and that a custodial sentence is possible,” he added.
He will be sentenced on January 26.
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