A FACTORY worker caught drink-driving for the fourth time in ten years - after his girlfriend had told him he had got her pregnant but had had an abortion - was jailed yesterday.

Mark Goundry, 35, pleaded guilty to driving after drinking more than twice the legal limit of alcohol and was sent to prison for four months by Harrogate magistrates, who also banned him from the roads for five years.

Sarah Tyrer, prosecuting, said police had been told to watch out for a Vauxhall Cavalier and spotted it in Hilton Lane, Knaresborough, in the early hours of March 3.

Goundry, of Inman Walk, Knaresborough, was at the wheel and he turned out to have three previous convictions for drink-driving.

In mitigation, Geoffrey Rogers said Goundry had been drinking wine and beer at a friend's house, but went home on a bus. There, he was told by his sister that his girlfriend had called "indicating she had been pregnant but had already had an abortion".

Mr Rogers said Goundry, who knew nothing of this, all-owed his emotions to get the better of him. All he could think about was speaking to his girlfriend, so he borrowed his sister's car.

Goundry was angry, the couple had a row and he was on his way home when police stopped him, said Mr Rogers.

Court chairman John Metcalfe told Goundry: "To drive over the limit once is daft. To drive twice is even more stupid. When we get up to four, words almost fail the Bench, and there is no suitable sentence other than prison."