Richard Holden was 3.5 times over legal limit
A former Manchester City player has been banned from the roads for five years after admitting drink-driving.
Fifty-seven-year-old Richard William Holden, of Magher Drine, appeared at Douglas Courthouse.
At an earlier hearing he'd pleaded guilty to drink-driving after police spotted him driving along Main Road in Sulby, shortly after 9.30pm, on 12 October last year.
Officers on patrol noticed Holden was flicking his lights off and on and accelerating and decelerating erratically.
They stopped him and noticed he smelled of alcohol – Holden claimed he'd drunk three pints an hour before getting behind the wheel.
However testing equipment at Police Headquarters showed he was more than three-and-a-half times over the legal limit.
He was jailed for three months, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £125.
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