A MOTORIST has been jailed for 12 weeks after she was twice caught driving while three times the legal alcohol level in less than half a year.

Lisa Wilson, 32, of Tennyson Road, Chilton, was jailed by Newton Aycliffe magistrates after pleading guilty to drink driving.

She was spotted by police on Vyners Close, in Kirk Merrington, near Spennymoor, at 12.30am on January 24.

John Garside, prosecuting, said that the Renault Clio she was driving swerved across the road and hit the kerb.

Wilson was stopped and gave a breath test reading of 105mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, the limit being 35mg of alcohol.

Mr Garside said Wilson had driven from Spennymoor to collect a friend but she had drunk more than a bottle of wine.

Wilson also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Tom Morgan, mitigating, said Wilson wanted to collect a friend who was walking from Spennymoor to Chilton.

He said Wilson failed to rouse another friend to drive her and so she took this friend’s car. He said she made a bad mistake and should have called a taxi.

Mr Morgan said she clipped the kerb as she turned the car round.

The court heard that Wilson had already been convicted of drink driving while roughly three times the legal limit on September 18, 2014.

She had been banned from driving then for 25 months and fined £185.

Wilson was jailed, banned from driving for four years and will pay an £80 victim surcharge for the most recent offence.