A Corporate Lawyer Who Was Caught Four Times Over The Drink-drive Limit In Her Range Rover Has Blamed Her Breath-alcohol Count On A Friend s Home-made Kombucha Tea

A corporate lawyer who was caught four times over the drink-drive limit in her Range Rover has blamed her breath-alcohol count on a friend's home-made Kombucha tea.
Although it tasted 'disgusting', 41-year-old Louise Taylor from Holmes Chapel Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, said she had been told it was good for gut health. 
'I didn't believe it was alcoholic,' she told Llandudno magistrates' court in North Wales, saying her friend Angela Morrison brewed it using yeast and mushrooms.
She admitted driving her car on the A55 dual carriageway with a breath-alcohol count of 135.

The legal limit is 35.
Defence lawyer Ashley Barnes said it appeared the wrong type of yeast - a brewer's variety - was used in making the drink.
Louise Taylor (pictured), 41, from Cheshire, blamed her breath-alcohol count on a friend's home-made Kombucha tea after she was was caught four times over the drink-drive limit
Prosecutor Gareth Parry said that at 8pm on April 22 police saw the vehicle at Rhuallt, travelling all over the road.

Taylor was stopped at St Asaph.
A PC, who followed the white Range Rover Sport for six miles while using blue lights and a siren, said it had been drifting on the hard shoulder and nearly collided with a number of wagons while overtaking.
A bottle in the vehicle was half full of a liquid which smelled of alcohol.
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The corporate lawyer (pictured) admitted driving her car with a breath-alcohol count of 135 - the legal limit is 35
A traffic colleague, PC Peter Doran, said: 'Her eyes were red and glazed, her speech slurred.

She was very unsteady on her feet.'
Taylor, who said she was 'head of legal', and according to her LinkedIn works for Chetwood Financial, described how she had met a friend at Knutsford in the morning to take their dogs for a walk.
She then went for lunch in a hotel restaurant and shared a bottle of wine.
She had stopped to see her friend Angela at Connah's Quay on the way to Abergele. 
Taylor said she had been diagnosed with Coeliac disease, affecting the gut, and that her friend wouldn't knowingly give her alcohol. 
The general counsel and company secretary for a bank insisted in evidence: 'I'm not a massive drinker at all.' 
Taylor had at least two glasses of the tea drink Kombucha and drank from a water bottle containing it as she drove.

She had also taken four antihistamines for hayfever that day and started feeling unwell.
Taylor said she took the drink 'in good faith', adding: 'I didn't knowingly drink and www.cruisewhat.com drive.'
'I didn't believe it was alcoholic,' Taylor told Llandudno magistrates' court (file photo above) in North Wales, saying her friend Angela Morrison brewed it using yeast and mushrooms
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