Three people who appeared in Magistrates' Court on drink driving charges were each banned from the Island's roads for one year.

Michael Dill and Selena Mello, both 32, and Andrew De Frias, 27, were also fined $800 each by Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo. Dill and Mello, both admitted to driving while their ability was impaired by alcohol or a drug. While De Frias admitted to being over the legal limit — of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

The court heard Dill, of Cedar Park Road, in Pembroke, was driving a motor car just after midnight on Thursday, when he failed to yield at a stop sign near Crow Lane and Corkscrew Hill, in Pembroke.

Police noticed he passed through the junction at high speed. They stopped Dill and saw he had a difficult time parking his vehicle correctly.

After approaching the driver's side of the car, the officers noticed Dill's speech was slurred and his breath smelt of liquor. When asked if he had anything to drink Dill said: "Just white wine and a shot."

Meanwhile Mello, of Daisyfield Drive, Sandys, was caught drink driving on Middle Road in Somerset, on October 23. She had 138 mg of alcohol in her system. De Frias, of Inghams Vale, Pembroke, was seen driving with a flat tire near Crow Lane, in Pembroke, on October 24.

Officers pulled the car over in a bus lane and noticed he was unsteady on his feet and had blood shot eyes.

De Frias admitted he had been drinking that night and was given a breathalyser test, the lower reading being 109 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood.