A DRUNK driver whose car suffered a puncture pulled over in the entrance to a police headquarters.

Blackburn magistrates heard Eamonn Wyer was breathalysed at the scene and gave a reading more than three times the legal limit.

He then refused to provide an evidential sample inside the police station.

Wyer, 53, of Queensway, Church, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a sample.

He was sentenced to eight weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to do 100 hours’ unpaid work. He was banned from driving for 29 months and ordered to pay £85 costs and £125 victim surcharge.

Andy Robinson, prosecuting, said a police officer driving out of Cambridgeshire police HQ at the end of his shift saw Wyer driving with two deflated front tyres.

“He was doing about 20mph with his hazard lights on as he pulled onto the access road to the headquarters,” said Mr Robinson.

“A roadside breathalyser gave a reading of 120 against the legal limit of 35. That is not an evidential sample but gives an indication of the level of alcohol.”

Duncan Nightingale, defending, said his client had pulled over in what he thought would be a safe spot but which turned out to be the entrance to the police headquarters.

He said Wyer had been home to Accrington to attend a wedding and had returned to Huntingdon where he was working at the time.

He had been to the pub for lunch and had a few drinks but did not expect the level to be so high.