'violent' incident at a party. Neighbours found out Patricia Whitehead had crashed into a parked car when they heard a 'bang' on Inman Avenue on St Helens, Merseyside.
Residents saw the mum drunk behind the wheel of a red Kia Picanto while her 13-year-old daughter sat in a passenger seat "crying", Liverpool Echo reports.
Being more than four times the legal limit, and was then arrested for drink driving. Her defence lawyer today told Liverpool Magistrates' Court the 50-year-old got behind the wheel after drinking vodkas and martinis because she was "unsettled" by an "incident of violence" of which she was "effectively the victim".
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