Drink-drive teacher to be sentenced

A SCHOOL music teacher who drove on the motorway while more than four times the legal alcohol limit with two young girls in her car may have psychiatric issues, a court heard yesterday.

Classically trained cellist and folk musician Linsey Aitken, 44, “took to a bottle of whisky” at home after becoming stressed about her job.

The Stirling Council primary school teacher then went for a drive with a two girls aged 13 and 15 as her passengers, and was seen swerving between the lanes of the M9.

Stirling Sheriff Court heard that Aitken, who was due to be sentenced yesterday, suffered from depression and was signed off from work with stress.

Sheriff Wyllie Robertson said he believed sentencing should be dealt with by Sheriff William Gilchrist – who earlier heard the facts of the case – after hearing about the psychiatric report.

Aitken will now be sentenced next Wednesday.