Video shows Cambridgeshire drink-driver admit he had last drink 'one minute' before breath test

A drink-driver stopped by police moments after he left the pub admitted his last drink was "one minute" before.

Footage captured on bodyworn camera shows Roland Alldashi cheerfully admitting to officers that he had been drinking just before getting into his car.

Volunteer special officers had stopped him on 19 May in Sawston in Cambridgeshire after seeing his Mercedes speeding through the village.

"You are stinking of alcohol, absolutely stinking of alcohol. When did you last have an alcoholic beverage?" the officer asks him.

"One minute," Alldashi replies. "You know the pub, here."

Alldashi, 46, of Shingay Lane, Sawston, took a breath test and blew 73 microgrammes at the roadside, twice the legal limit of 35mcgs per 100mls of breath. In custody he gave an evidential reading of 70.

After pleading guilty to drink-driving at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, Alldashi was disqualified from driving for 18 months and fined £120.

PC Christopher Smits, from the South Cambridgeshire neighbourhood policing team, said: “There are no excuses for drink-driving. Alldashi put not only his life in danger but other road users too.”

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