A BUSINESSMAN spared jail for running a ketamine supply operation has put his liberty at risk by drink driving.
Joshua Mathew O’Connor, 30, was almost three times the limit when he was caught on St Peter’s Road, Rawtenstall, on August 20.
He had given a sample showing 228 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80.
O’Connor, of Burnley Road, Bacup, admitted driving with excess alcohol, in breach of a suspended jail term, imposed at Burnley Crown Court on January 27. Burnley magistrates gave him an interim ban and he was committed to the higher court for sentence on December 8.
The crown court heard in January how O’Connor, then of Jubilee Road, Haslingden was doubling his £30,000 a year salary selling drugs.
Police found 17 snap bags containing the drug and digital scales during a raid.
O’Connor, after the ketamine charges, was sentenced to 24 weeks in jail, suspended for two years, with 100 hours’ unpaid work and £300 costs.
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