FOUR people have been taken off Wyre Forest roads for a total of 64 months after they pleaded guilty to driving crimes.

Lucy Edwards, Kieran Garbett, and Charles Silk were convicted of drink driving, while Carl Brooks was convicted of failing to provide a specimen when they all appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, May 14.

Twenty-two year-old Edwards was found to have 52 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath the morning after a wedding reception when police officers pulled her over for not wearing a seat belt at 9.25am on April 26, prosecutor Owen Beale said.

"Se wasn't wearing her seat belt and that's when she came to the police officer's attention," He said. "He followed her down [Prior Close] and stopped her to speak to her about that and that's when he could smell alcohol on her breath."

In mitigation, her solicitor told the court she genuinely believed the alcohol was out of her system having slept it off.

Edwards, of Prior Close, Kidderminster, pleaded guilty to drink driving and was disqualified for 12 months and also ordered to pay a £230 fine, a £23 victim surcharge, £85 in prosecution costs, and a £150 court charge.

Garbett, 25, of Tenbury Road, Clows Top, was found with 44 mcg of alcohol in 100 ml of breath while driving in Dowles Road, Bewdley, on April 25. He was disqualified for 12 months and ordered to pay a £240 fine, a £24 victim surcharge, £85 in prosecution costs, and £150 in court charges.

The youngest offender, 21-year-old Silk, of Church Avenue, in Clent, was found with 85 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 ml of blood - just over the legal limit of 80 mg - when he chose to drive his Volkswagen Golf in Yew Tree Avenue, on March 17. He was disqualified for 12 months and ordered to pay a £270 fine, a £27 victim surcharge, and £85 in prosecution costs.

Committing a driving offence of a different kind, 26-year-old Brook was pulled over by police after being seen swerving and crossing the central line of a Wyre Forest road on April 18.

He blew a reading of 114 mcg of alcohol in 100 ml of breath at the roadside, but when he was taken to the police station, he only provided a partial reading of 127 mcg and refused to provide a second.

This was the most serious of the four driving cases heard by the magistrates on the day, and the self-employed builder, of Stourbridge Road, Kidderminster, was given an eight-week jail sentence suspended for 12 months, ordered to undertake 150 hours of unpaid work, pay a total of £315 in fines and costs, and was disqualified from driving for 28 months.

The legal limit of alcohol in a person's system is 35 mcg in 100 ml of breath, with one unit of alcohol taking around one hour to burn off after that person a stopped drinking.