POLICE responding to reports of a man driving dangerously on Sunday night came face to face with him when he drove towards them on the wrong side of the road.

Swinging their car around the officers gave chase and saw him swerve his Audi onto the wrong side of the road again. After swerving back onto the correct side of the road Martynas Morazas carried on along Kingsdown Road before coming to a stop by some garages where he was found to be almost four times over the drink drive limit – and a disqualified driver.

After spending the remainder of the bank holiday weekend in custody the 25-year-old came before magistrates sitting in Swindon on Tuesday morning where he pleaded guilty to being above the drink drive limit, driving without insurance, driving while disqualified and being in possession of a class A drug.

He further admitted breaching a community order imposed in August of last year for driving while under the influence by not completing his unpaid work.

Prosecutor Keith Ballinger explained to the court that officers had been called shortly before 9pm to reports of a man driving dangerously, and once he had come to a stop they found a number of empty cans and bottles in the N-reg Audi.

Failing a roadside breath test and admitting to not having insurance he was taken into custody at Gablecross while the vehicle was seized.

Once in custody he provided a breath test of 135 microgrammes in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg.

Meanwhile officers discovered one grammes of MDMA in the glovebox of his car.

His defence, Kirsty O’Connor, told the magistrates that he had no idea why he had decided to drive home from Faringdon towards his home address in Birch Street.

She said he had the very small amount of the drugs in his car having bought it on a night out from a man in club, but he hadn’t used any of it.

“He has spent since Sunday evening in custody – it has been a very shocking and sobering experience for him and he has had a lot of time to think about what he has done,” she said.

“Being remanded in custody is not a pleasant experience for anyone, especially when it is a bank holiday.”

The magistrates deliberated for almost half an hour on how best to sentence Morazas.

Chairman of the bench Felicity Dowell told him: “You have had two very serious driving offences in a very short space of time. You were brought to court after the first one and you haven’t bothered to do one single bit of unpaid work. The court is very unhappy about that.”

She told him they were going to revoke his previous sentence and instead jail him for a total of 21 weeks, covering his convictions from August of last year and the offences from Sunday.

He must also pay a £115 victim surcharge and he was disqualified from driving for 36 months. He must also complete an extended retest before he can regain his licence.

Ms Dowell said: “We looked at the option of suspending this custody but we feel that you have had two similar offences in a short period of time and you have failed miserably to comply with the community order.

"It was an extremely high reading – virtually off the chart. The degree of danger to the public is why we are going to send you to immediate custody.”