A SUSPECTED drink driver who failed a police breath test asked to give a urine sample instead – but then claimed he was physically unable to do it.

“I made a genuine effort to do so but I felt I did not have the liquid in me as I had not had anything to drink in hours and must have lost a lot of liquid dancing. It was an inability to pee” he said.

Joseph Llewellyn, 21, of Trelawney Road, Falmouth, pleaded not guilty at Truro Magistrates’ Court to failing to provide a specimen of urine for analysis on May 6.

The court heard he had been given the chance to provide first a specimen of breath, which he failed to do, saying he had asthma, then blood, which he also failed to do, saying he was scared of needles, but then agreed to give a sample of urine, although eventually failing to do that.

PC Daniel Roberts said he had stopped Llewellyn while driving in Porthleven at 8.20am after seeing his windscreen wipers working on a sunny and dry morning, and after smelling alcohol on his breath, decided to give him a breath test, which he failed.

Llewellyn, who said he ran his own business and was taking an Open University degree, was convicted, and banned from driving for 20 months, fined £220 and £190 costs and surcharge.