A SENIOR police officer caught more than three times over the legal alcohol limit said he was only moving his car out of a two-hour parking spot.
Darren Keith McCaughey, of Cromer, yesterday pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving after returning a blood-alcohol reading of 0.172 just after midnight on January 4. He was handed a one-year driving ban and fined $750.
The 39-year-old sergeant, who is attached to a special command, was pulled over in Pine St, Manly.
He had been drinking for nearly five hours and said he had consumed six schooners of beer without eating.
His lawyer Philippa Grant told the court her client had planned to get a taxi home and only went to his car to get his keys. "He noticed he was in a two-hour parking spot and decided to drive around the corner," she said.
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