A Tucker's Town resident and a St. George's resident will be facing the next twelve months off the road after admitting to drunk driving in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

When pleading guilty to driving whilst under the influence of alcohol Tucker's Town resident Allen McMartin said simply "I exercised extremely bad judgment, sir".

But Heman Richardson tried his best to talk his way out of the license suspension and $800 fine which both men ultimately received from Senior Acting Magistrate Will Francis. McMartin was pulled over by Police on June 21 near the Market Place in Paget after the officers observed that he was unable to keep a straight course while driving on South Road.

Police noticed his eyes were glazed and red, and McMartin admitted that earlier in the evening he had a couple of drinks at a club which he had just left when the Police pulled him over. Sixty-seven-year-old Heman Richardson also admitted his guilt to the charge of impaired driving on Mullet Bay Road, St. George's on June 15, but said he had an explanation.

Richardson had been pulled over by officers who subjected him to a breathalyser test. Richardson admitted to having two beers at a club before he left to go home. Richardson was only 0.02 milligrams over the legal limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. "When I left the cricket game someone called and told the police that I was driving on the yellow line," said Richardson.

He went onto say that he had been driving in the middle of the road in order to avoid parked cars and pedestrians who were in the road. Telling Richardson that he was not charged with driving in a dangerous manner but for driving under the influence of alcohol Mr. Francis said he not open to excuses from Richardson who has a history of alcohol related offences. "You especially should be aware that you should not be driving when you had any drinks at all." Mr. Francis said.