drink driver faked diabetic fit

A 26-YEAR-OLD man who pretended to have a diabetic fit after being caught drink-driving has been jailed for three months.

Nazif Sheikh, of New Road, Bedfont, was stopped by police as he drove in Bath Road, Heathrow.

He later admitted he had downed half a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey.

Sheikh, who was already disqualified for a drink-driving offence on February 3, told officers he did not think he was drunk and believed he was safe to drive
After giving a breath test, he was taken to Heathrow police station, where he claimed he was diabetic and needed insulin jabs.
Sheikh pretended to collapse, and an officer checked his pulse, which seemed normal, before putting him in the recovery position.

At Isleworth Crown Court, Judge Robert Winstanley said: "You kept straightening your leg.

"At this the officer thought you must be faking the illness."

Nevertherless, the court heard how an ambulance was called and a paramedic checked Sheikh, before telling him to "stop messing around".

He was taken to hospital after continuing to feign illness and at one point told officers that he knew enough about alcohol to know that he would now pass a breath test.

After being taken back to the station, he passed the test and insisted he had not faked the collapse.

Judge Winstanley said: "This was a deliberate, planned attempt. There was no panic.

"You showed signs of lightness, putting your thumbs up and smiling.

"You knew exactly what was happening. You even had the cheek to tell the officers at the end of things at the hospital that your alcohol level would have dropped and you turned out to be right about this."

Sheikh admitted driving while disqualified and perverting the course of justice and was banned from driving for two and a half years and jailed for three months.

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A drink-driver faces jail after he was caught careering down a road while twice the legal limit - with a friend desperately clinging to the bonnet.

Peter James, 23, had been drinking with friends when he jumped behind the wheel of his BMW in the early hours.
Officers breathalysed James, who was found to have 62 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, after the incident at 1am on August 1.

And yesterday he was told he faces jail after admitting drink driving and dangerous driving at Gloucester Magistrate's Court.

Graham Dono, prosecuting, said: 'The CCTV shows a female standing in front of the defendant's BMW and then moving away.

'The defendant drives off but a man stands in front of his car and climbs on the bonnet.

'The defendant drives over a speed bump with the man still on the bonnet.'

Claire Mortimer, mitigating, said: 'The man on the bonnet is a friend of my client and was trying to persuade him to go nightclubbing. He had only consumed two pints and did not want to go clubbing.

'He did not drive at excessive speed, there were a few people about at that time of night and the distance he drove was short.'