Ant drink driving

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

i cant understand how it took 3 days to charge him TBH, a few cops on here and idea's?

I d have thought thought DD failed breathalyzer and the lion intoxilyzer he would have been banged to rights and charged before leaving the station

His management and ITV executives asking for time...?

I think ALL of that bunch as well as his advisors and 'hingers on' did him no favours at all - in fact they let him down probably for their own ends - in encouraging or even letting him return to such high profile work so soon after coming out of rehab last year.

The fact that he took himself straight into rehab suggested to me that he was pi$$ed as a newt (and he looked it) when breathalized, he was not fit to return to work.

 

[user2010]

He should be prosecuted up to the fullest extent of the law and his mum should be done for aiding and abetting.
Scumbags.

 

[Beezerk]

his mum should be done for aiding and abetting.

Why?
Is there something to the story I don’t know?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

His management and ITV executives asking for time...?

I think ALL of that bunch as well as his advisors and 'hingers on' did him no favours at all - in fact they let him down probably for their own ends - in encouraging or even letting him return to such high profile work so soon after coming out of rehab last year.

The fact that he took himself straight into rehab suggested to me that he was pi$$ed as a newt (and he looked it) when breathalized, he was not fit to return to work.

Wow, thats a full on condemnation. Given how successful his career has been until the last few years, I'm not sure you can blame management in particular. Unless you're suddenly an expert, how do you know it was his advisors insisting that he's released from rehab. Isn't that normally a clinical decision taken in conjunction with the patient and although there may have been pressure I don't think he made a conscious decision to come out of treatment significantly early or against medical/professional advice from the clinic

 

[User2021]

Looking at a pic of his ex today, he needed to be p1ssed and high one would imagine.

In in fact she looks spaced out most of the time herself.

 

[Fish]

Looking at a pic of his ex today, he needed to be p1ssed and high one would imagine.

In in fact she looks spaced out most of the time herself.

I read somewhere she’s just agreed a £16m settlement on the divorce.

Half of that will go up her nose from what I’ve heard, it can’t help the bloke if you’ve got your own issues and your Mrs is bang at it morning noon and night!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

He should be prosecuted up to the fullest extent of the law and his mum should be done for aiding and abetting.
Scumbags.

Not very understanding are you...

 

[Beezerk]

`Jesus christ, I've just seen a couple of videos, he's completely off his nut.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Wow, thats a full on condemnation. Given how successful his career has been until the last few years, I'm not sure you can blame management in particular. Unless you're suddenly an expert, how do you know it was his advisors insisting that he's released from rehab. Isn't that normally a clinical decision taken in conjunction with the patient and although there may have been pressure I don't think he made a conscious decision to come out of treatment significantly early or against medical/professional advice from the clinic

He most probably wouldn't have been 'released' from rehab - the treatment 'course' would have been completed - but I would not be surprised if he was rather encouraged to go back to work soon after coming out - much sooner than he needed and was good for him. And in my understanding of addictions and life immediately after coming out of rehab - the individual needs time - and depending on how the addict is managing his addiction that may be quite a lot of time - and often not doing the same job or whatever you were doing before your collapse. Because an addict going back to life pretty much 'as was' is on a sure road to a relapse.

Unless also addicts in recovery, those advising him or for whom he works would not truly understand the issues he would have been having to deal with and his own thinking around them. So I was not condemning those around him - rather just pointing out that they would most likely not understand that rehab/treatment is not the solution - it is the start of the solution. For many it is simply a forceful means of getting separated from the 'drug' and of being introduced to what you have to do to develop a life in recovery.

 

[Fish]

I feel sorry for the dog that’s caught up in the middle of all this, and I mean the furry one 😏

 

[Blue in Munich]

I'm thinking (from the video some voyeuristic bystander) that he was pretty pissed when he got out of the car - though being reported as 'being in shock'. The fact that he has immediately taken himself into rehab and given a roadside breathalyzer failure suggests to me that the lads underlying problem will have long been alcohol and hence why he has admitted himself.

That he was in rehab last year for addiction to painkillers - whilst a very real addiction for many - is the sort of cross-addiction alcoholics and drug addicts have. And so when they go into a rehab/treatment centre what is put up front as the reason is often not the underlying problem - either to keep face and to provide an 'acceptable' reason - or as denial.

I wish him well - and there is little point in castigating and publicly humiliating an alcoholic for drink driving - the alcoholic knows he shouldn't - but denial when in the grip of alcoholism is very strong and very difficult if not impossible to recognise and resist - even if, in this case, given the likely exhortations and pleading of his mum not to drive.

As I have read - alcoholism is the disease that makes you believe that you don't have the disease.

I have no concerns for Declan Donnelly - he will do just fine. And I find the blaming of AM for DD loss of income or aspects of his career is sad and unthinking. DD will understand his mate's problem and will not have any resentments for what has happened - and he will not I suggest want him blamed in any way. He will know and be pleased that his mate is where he needs to be.

Is it just me that finds this ironic? Not at all voyeuristic to be picking the bloke's life apart on here, but we'll have a pop at a passer by who videos it.

 

[User2021]

I feel sorry for the dog that’s caught up in the middle of all this, and I mean the furry one 

😂😂😂

 

[Blue in Munich]

No idea, by he. Same thoughts.
Fail breathalyser at side of road, get nicked.
Fail machine at station.
chucked in cell, sober up then charge.

Only two things I thought of were, investigating other driving charges or drugs test?

i cant understand how it took 3 days to charge him TBH, a few cops on here and idea's?

I d have thought thought DD failed breathalyzer and the lion intoxilyzer he would have been banged to rights and charged before leaving the station

The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath. From memory, Met policy when I was in was:

39 and under; release without charge.
40 - 50; Blood option. If declined immediate charge.
51 and over; immediate charge.


So potentially he wasn't pissed as a newt but somewhere in-between, although it does seem mighty quick for a blood sample to come back. However if it was a blood sample coming back there wouldn't be anything unusual in a monied customer coming back with a lawyer to be charged once the results are in, looking for any procedural breaches at the charging stage to get it thrown out at a later date.

Another alternative is that if there was an immediate failure to sufficient level to charge but the Custody Officer feels the offender is in no fit state to process the information he could bail him to return to be charged at a later date. Given that there's no chance of him driving the car as it's wrecked and to avoid hordes of press on the steps of the nick it might be simplest to release him once the evidence has been obtained and let him sober up on somebody else's watch rather than tying up the gaoler with the necessary checks.

 

[user2010]

Not very understanding are you...

What's to understand?
The scumbag drove his car knowing he was drunk and crashed into 2 cars.
His scumbag mother let him.
He's extremely lucky he didn't knock down/run over/seriously injure any pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists etc.
He'll get no sympathy from me, but the Professional hand-wringers will be saying, `it's not his fault, he has an illness` etc.
BS

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Is it just me that finds this ironic? Not at all voyeuristic to be picking the bloke's life apart on here, but we'll have a pop at a passer by who videos it.

Not picking over his life at all - simply reflecting on what rehab and recovery mean for any addict and the risk that any addict runs returning to life 'as was' - especially relatively soon after coming out of rehab/treatment.

And in that context wondering why he was back 'on screen' and so far from home so soon after coming out of rehab - suggesting that he would have been encouraged and supported to do that by individuals with no understanding whatsoever of addiction.

 

[Crazyface]

Why didn't he get a taxi? He's loaded!

 

[Beezerk]

Why didn't he get a taxi? He's loaded!

He was definitely loaded 🍻🍻🍻🍻

 

[Khamelion]

It's quite odd the irony of a bunch of golfers talking about drink driving, when the vast majority within this forum will happily down a pint or two, may be more after a round of golf then drive home. Don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting people are getting hammered then driving home over the limit but you must see the irony.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It's quite odd the irony of a bunch of golfers talking about drink driving, when the vast majority within this forum will happily down a pint or two, may be more after a round of golf then drive home. Don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting people are getting hammered then driving home over the limit but you must see the irony.

There was a thread on this a little while ago. I was amazed how many on here are happy to have 2 pints and then drive home. We don't know his results yet but that could be the same for him.

 

[Orikoru]

It's quite odd the irony of a bunch of golfers talking about drink driving, when the vast majority within this forum will happily down a pint or two, may be more after a round of golf then drive home. Don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting people are getting hammered then driving home over the limit but you must see the irony.

Two pints of weaker ale wouldn't quite put you over the limit though would it? Nor two pints of shandy as my driving mates tend to have. I think what Ant has done is quite a way beyond that.