A pilot found over the limit before he was about to fly a plane has been spared jail.
It was just enough to put him over the legal limit, although a court heard that half an hour later and he would have been clear. Copeland was discreetly taken off the aircraft and tested for alcohol, where he gave a reading of 27 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood – over the legal limit of 20.
Sentencing, Judge Maurice Greene told Copeland: ‘You are an experienced pilot who no doubt has been in this country on a number of occasions before and knows the relevant limit.’Henry Blackshaw, defending, said: ‘He treated himself to a nightcap of rum in the hotel room and it seems it was that alcohol in combination with the residue of alcohol from dinnertime which would have, in combination, caused his levels to be over the limit the following morning.
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