A 38-YEAR-OLD woman who failed a breathalyser told police she was sorry but she had just ended her marriage.

Blackburn magistrates heard Cambridge graduate and charity chief executive Sarah Roisin Johns was more than double the legal limit when she was stopped on Bolton Road.

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Johns, 38, of Garnett Street, Ramsbottom, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol. She was fined £500 with £150 criminal court charge, £50 victim surcharge and £85 costs and banned from driving for 20 months.

Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said police were alerted after Johns had left a petrol station.

Denise Fitzpatrick, defending, said her client had discovered that her husband had been looking at a site for a massage parlour.

She said: “They had an argument which concluded with her telling him their four-year marriage was over.”