A DRIVER has been banned and ordered to pay hundreds after she failed to provide a breath specimen for analysis in a Herefordshire incident.
Catherine Walker pleaded guilty to one count of failing to provide a specimen for analysis as a vehicle driver.
The court heard that the 43-year-old had been asked to provide a breath sample in Leominster, Herefordshire, on March 30.
She had no reasonable excuse for failing to provide a breath sample through a breathalyser.
Walker, of Birks Street, Stoke-on-Trent, was fined £177 and disqualified from driving for 36 months at her sentencing in Hereford on May 29.
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She was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £40 and no victim surcharge was ordered to be paid.
Walker can reduce her driving ban by 36 weeks if she completes a drink-driving awareness course by July 18, 2026.
Her guilty plea was taken into account by magistrates when they sentenced her.
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