A WOMAN was jailed after she racked up her third drink driving conviction.
Lauri Adele Matthews, 33, was caught when she was more than three times the limit on Barry’s Broad Street on August 7 at the wheel of a Citroen C3.
The defendant, of Llwyn Y Gog, Rhoose, pleaded guilty to having 117 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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Matthews also admitted driving without insurance and driving without a licence as well as being in breach of a suspended prison sentence.
She was jailed for 16 weeks at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court and ordered to pay a £128 surcharge after she is released from jail.
Matthews was banned from driving for 37 months.
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