A hole was punched into the side of a 15th-century building when a Norwich drink-driver more than four times the alcohol limit ploughed into it.

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Dmitrijus Malachovskis pleaded guilty at South East Suffolk Magistrates' Court in Ipswich to driving with excess alcohol when he left a 'large hole' in the historic property near Sudbury on Tuesday.

The court was told a breath test several hours after the crash in Lower Street, Stanstead, showed the 32-year-old Russian national had 144 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.

The legal limit is 35mcgs.

Prosecutor Colette Harper said at around 2pm Julie Parrott, who owns the property, noticed Malachovskis in a Toyota Avensis parked close to her home. He was asleep at the time and had to be woken up as he was parked inappropriately.

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Malachovskis appeared groggy and disorientated, the court was told. He started the Toyota and drove off towards Sudbury.

However, about 90 minutes later Mrs Parrott heard a loud bang outside her home.

When she looked outside the Toyota was buried in the brickwork of a 15th-century outbuilding with Malachovskis still in the car.

Both airbags had been deployed.

Mrs Harper said: 'There was a very large hole in the outbuilding where the vehicle collided with it.'

Police arrived at around 4.10pm and Malachovskis, who was out of the vehicle, admitted he had been driving it.

Mrs Harper told the court: 'He said he had been drinking alcohol for most of the day and was an idiot for driving the car.'

After supplying a positive roadside breath test Malachovskis was arrested.

He was originally taken to hospital. When he was released he was taken to a police investigation centre and four hours after arrest he was breath-tested.

The case was adjourned until Monday, February 13, for a pre-sentence report to be compiled. Malachovskis, of Wenman Court, Norwich, was released on unconditional bail.