WHEN his fiancé awoke in the middle of the night with excruciating abdominal pain a man got in his car to buy her some pain killers, despite having had too much to drink.

When officers pulled over 31-year-old Lukasz Abraham on Mead Way at 3.10am he was found to be more than double the drink drive limit.

Pauline Lambert, on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service explained that officers had been drawn to Abraham's driving after he was seen crossing the central white line of the road.

When he failed a roadside breath test he was taken to Gablecross Police Station where he blew 77 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

Defending the Birdcombe Road resident Philip Hall explained that his client had been the proprietor of Small removals company, but as a result if the driving ban that would automatically come with this offence everything would change.

He told the court that Abraham had shared some drinks with a neighbour the previous day and then gone to bed.

"He was woken in the early hours by his fiancé who was in considerable pain, which is not surprising as she had [previously] suffered a miscarriage," said Mr Hall. "She said she needed something for the pain. You might think that the obvious thing would be to ring an ambulance, but she had been advised by her GP that she would not qualify for the services of an ambulance."

As a result Abraham jumped in his Chevrolet Matiz and drove to a nearby garage to buy some pain killers - an estimated round trip of just a quarter of a mile.

The magistrates fined him £120 and ordered he pay court costs of £35 along with a £30 victim surcharge.

He was further banned from driving for 20 months.