A DUNFERMLINE woman who drove her son to play in a football match when she was more than five times over the limit has been sentenced.

Specialist nurse Debbie Greig ran her car into a boulder in the car park at the playing fields at Rosyth then got into a row with other parents.

Greig, 40, of Cadell Reach, went on trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court last month.

She was found guilty of a charge that on February 26, 2020, at Rosyth Fleet Grounds, Wilson Way, Rosyth, she drove having consumed excess alcohol.

Her reading was 127 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 22 microgrammes.

An off-duty police officer who was present was so concerned that she would drive that he later took her and her son home in his vehicle.

Police witnesses told the trial they had found the car at the playing fields up against a boulder.

They had been answering a call from someone concerned that a woman was going to drive away when drunk.

They found out the address of the vehicle’s owner and tracked her down to her home.

Greig told the court she had worked as a specialist renal nurse for the past 19 years.

She recalled she had taken her son to the match a bit late then became involved in an “altercation” with some of the people there.

She claimed she was upset about this and so took a bottle of vodka from her car, went to the clubhouse and drank it all straight. She then threw the bottle away.

Greig said she got into another row with some parents about her “shouting too loud” during the match.

Greig said she had told the man who drove her home that she had been drinking a glass of wine at home before driving to the match but that was not true.

“So why would you tell him that?” asked depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf.

“Because I was embarrassed. What mum goes to a football match with their son and drinks?” said Greig.

Sheriff David Hall found Greig guilty and told her bluntly: “I didn’t believe your evidence.”

The court heard Greig had a previous conviction for a similar offence.

When she returned to court for sentencing, Sheriff Hall banned her from driving for six years, ordered her to complete 240 hours of unpaid work and also imposed a restriction of liberty order for seven months.