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Exeter Chiefs rugby player hit with roads ban after drink-driving

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An Exeter Chiefs rugby player has been banned from driving after he was caught drink-driving.

Will Goodrick-Clarke told Exeter Magistrates’ Court he made a “massive lapse in judgement” during the incident in the Westclyst area of Exeter in April.

The court heard the 29-year-old’s BMW driver was stopped by a routine police patrol near his home.

Goodrick-Clarke, who has no previous convictions, was banned for 12 months and fined £569.

The prosecution said the Gloucestershire-born player had been compliant with police but failed a roadside breath test blowing 40mg of alcohol – the legal limit is 35mg – and was arrested.

Magistrates heard that he had been having some issues at the time and had been “off work for two weeks or longer”.

At the hearing, he said: “It was a massive lapse in judgement.

“I have never been in trouble before and this was the first time I had spoken to police.”


BBC News

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