A WOMAN has been fined and banned after a "moment of madness" led her to drink drive whilst twice the legal limit.

Wioletta Kuras, of Park Street in Wrexham, appeared at Wrexham Magistrates Court on Monday morning.

The 35-year-old admitted that on December 17, she drove a VW Golf on Acton Road after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in her breath exceeded the specified limit.

Prosecutor Justin Espie told the court that at around 4am on the day of the offence, police were alerted to a potential drink-driver in Wrexham City Centre.

Officers stopped Kuras' car, following which she provided a positive alcohol sample.

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When taken into custody, she gave a sample of 72 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the limit being 35.

Catherine Jagger, defending, told the court that her client had never been in trouble with the police and had offered them her full co-operation in relation to the matter.

Ms Jagger said: "She had come to the centre with no intention to drive home.

"But she left her house keys in the vehicle, so when she went to get them - in a moment of madness - she decides to drive home for security reasons.

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"It was the early hours of the morning and she's a lone female."

She described her client's actions as "the biggest mistake she has ever made," adding: " "She spent the rest of the night in the cells being treated very much like the criminal she knows she is in the sense of the drink-drive."

Lucy Bureau, chair of the magistrates, handed down a 17 month driving ban - as well as a £460 fine, £184 victim surcharge and £85 costs.