A serial drink-driver led police officers on a high-speed chase after roaring past Police Scotland headquarters in Dundee.
Murray Fotheringham was found with an empty bottle of wine, three bottles of beer and four tubs of porridge on the floor of his works van following the two-and-a-half-mile chase through the city.
The pursuit, which saw him tear through junctions without stopping, ended when he smashed the van, owned by his employers Angus Decorators, into a parked Audi TT.
He ran off but was apprehended a short time later after officers found him hiding in undergrowth.
Fotheringham was breathalysed and found to be four-and-a-half times the legal alcohol limit.
The 32-year-old, of South Victoria Dock Road in Dundee, pleaded guilty on summary complaint at the city’s sheriff court to charges of drink-driving and dangerous driving on August 7.
He drove at speeds of more than 60mph in a 30 zone past a marked police car sitting at Ladywell roundabout on North Marketgait.
The chase ended in Inverary Terrace, after a pursuit along Lochee Road, Tullideph Road, Ancrum Road, Logie Street and Rankine Street.
Sheriff Alistair Carmichael banned Fotheringham from the road for four years and imposed a community payback order with two years’ supervision, 200 hours of unpaid work and an alcohol treatment requirement.
The sheriff said: “You have pled guilty to a very serious offence. Your relationship with alcohol is unhealthy and it is a potential danger to members of the public.”