A HIGH VALLEYFIELD woman was more than five times over the limit when breathalysed after police went to her home.

The alarm had been raised by a shop owner who was sure Margaret Fulton had been drink-driving when she came to his store.

Margaret Fulton, 52, of Forth Crescent, was on trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

She was found guilty of a charge that on March 15 last year in Valleyfield Avenue, High Valleyfield, she drove having consumed excess alcohol.

Her reading was 123 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 22 microgrammes.

She previously admitted a second charge of failing to name to police the person who had been driving her vehicle.

Shop owner Asif Saeed, 32, flagged down a police car after smelling alcohol on her breath.

He also told the court that she had been “walking as if she was drunk” when she was in his shop in High Valleyfield.

The court was shown CCTV of Fulton driving her car and parking across from the shop.

Fulton said she had not been drinking before she drove to the shop for cigarettes.

She said that about 15 minutes after she returned home from the shop, the police came to her door.

In the meantime, she claimed she had filled a “really tall glass of vodka and fresh orange” which she “gulped down in a oner”.

She told police nobody had been driving her car that morning.

Asked by defence solicitor Ian Beatson why she had said this, Fulton replied: “That was because the week before police had come to my door accusing me of drink-driving. I thought it was a vendetta.”

Sheriff Charles MacNair found Fulton guilty. He called for reports and sentence was deferred until July 25. An interim driving ban was imposed.