A DRINK-driver whose vehicle landed upside down after hitting a wall and a shed in St Saviour last summer was yesterday disqualified from driving for three years and ordered to pay more than £2,600 in compensation.

The accident, which occurred in Bagatelle Road on 17 July, was the second drink-driving offence in seven years for 33-year-old Silvio Humberto da Silva Soares, the Magistrate’s Court was told.

Soares, of Rue de Marais, St Mary, who admitted driving while unfit, driving dangerously, driving without insurance and failing to stop and report an accident, was also ordered to do 70 hours community service.

His offer to pay off a compensation order totalling £2,665 to the owners of the wall and shed and an insurance company at the rate of £50 per week was accepted by the court, but he was warned that he risked prison if he defaulted.

He was told by Assistant Magistrate Ian Christmas that his drinking had caused a dramatic accident from which he had been lucky to escape without serious injury.