Drunk driver sent to prison after dog joke

A MAN who told police his dog had been driving when he was suspected of being drunk at the wheel of his car has been jailed for ten months and banned from driving for two years.

Last month at Tain Sheriff Court, 64-year-old Ronald Gell blamed his dog when asked by officers who had been driving his car before assaulting one of them. Gell was taken to a police station where he refused a breath test.

Gell of Hill Street, admitted that on 19 February he failed to give information to police as to the identity of the driver of the vehicle. He was admonished on this charge but jailed for five months for failing to provide a sample of his breath.

He also admitted assaulting a female police officer by kicking her from the back seat of a police car as she was driving. A further five months was added to his sentence.