A DRINK-DRIVER showed off his driving skills by performing handbrake turns and wheel spins at 3.30am, the York Press reports.  

Only after Aigars Danilans had done several "doughnuts" and screeched his car round a few times did he find out that he was in a police station car park, York Crown Court heard.

Graham O'Sullivan, prosecuting, said a police sergeant had watched all of the 21-year-old's antics from his own car and when the builder sped towards him put on his blue lights and with help from a second sergeant boxed him in.

Danilans was more than twice the drink drive limit and didn't have insurance for his driving.

The offences were committed at Fulford Road Police Station during the annual police Christmas anti-drink driving campaign.

Latvian speaking Danilans, of Sand Lane, Wilberfoss near Pocklington, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, drink driving and driving without insurance.

Recorder Tahir Khan QC told him: "I accept this was you just showing off and behaving in a very immature way but what you did was serious, justifying the passing of a custodial sentence."

He gave him a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months on condition he does 140 hours' unpaid work, banned him from driving for 22 months and ordered him to take an extended driving test before driving alone again.

He also ordered him to pay the prosecution costs of £340 and a £115 statutory surcharge.

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