A second time drink-driver who had had too much to drink the night before crashed his car into a garden causing £5,000 damage.

Jonas Reikertas, 52, of Roscrowgey Farm, St Keverne, Helston, pleaded guilty at Truro Magistrates’ Court to drink driving on March 6 on the B3293, Rosevear, and also to using a vehicle without insurance.

Alison May for the CPS said the owner of the damaged property had called the police around 6.30 am and said that Reikertas’ car had crashed into his property causing an awful lot of damage and was on its roof in his garden.

Reikertas, whose previous conviction for drink-driving was in 2011, was represented by solicitor Paul Simons who described his recent offence as the morning after the night before. He had been celebrating a friend’s birthday and had clearly drunk too much,.

A herdsman dairy milker on the farm, Reikertas was banned from driving for 46 months, fined £240 with £115 costs and charges and had to pay compensation of £300.