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| Drink-drive doctor jailed A hospital doctor, who drank half a bottle of vodka before driving the wrong way down a north Wales dual carriageway, has been jailed for eight weeks. Dr Usamah Alkunani was already serving a 12-month ban for drink-driving at the time of the incident on the A55 in Bodelwyddan last December. Magistrates in Denbigh heard how police had been called after Alkunani entered a service station forecourt via an exit. The court was told that Alkunani, a house officer at Glan Clwyd Hospital, had made two unsuccessful attempts to put petrol into his Mercedes. The junior doctor was reported to be nearly three times over the drink-drive limit when he was stopped by police just a few days after Christmas. Defence solicitor Gwyn Jones argued his client had been driven to drink by the stress of working as a busy National Health Service doctor. However, chair of the bench, Marilyn Webber, told the court that a custodial sentence was "the only option" facing Alkunani. She said: "This offence is so serious that only custody can be justified as the offence of driving while disqualified was committed within a short period since your previous conviction." The court was told how Alkunani had already been banned from driving by London's Bow Street magistrates in September last year. The 32-year-old had pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, driving while banned and driving without insurance at an earlier hearing. Alkunani was given two concurrent eight week sentences for drink-driving and driving while disqualified and banned from driving for three years. A spokesman for Glan Clwyd Hospital said the case had been reported to the General Medical Council. The doctor's contract at the hospital is due to expire on 5 February. 1st February 2002 |
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