Two more Brighton and Hove motorists charged after drink drive crackdown

The last Brighton and Hove motorists who were on bail after being arrested during the annual Sussex Police drink drive crackdown have been charged.

The force said that they brought the total number of people charged from the start of December, over Christmas and through to the new year to 149 across Sussex.

Each of the drivers was arrested during the crackdown and released before being charged on answering their bail.

Samuel Pescod, 19, of Old Shoreham Road, Portslade, was arrested after his car was stopped in Greenways Crescent, Shoreham.

It was being driven without its lights on in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Pescod was charged with drink driving and released on bail to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 17 April.

John Allum, 25, was arrested in Gloucester Street, Brighton, on Saturday 14 December after officers were told that he could be driving while under the influence of drugs.

Allum was charged with having a class B drug and released on bail to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court this Thursday (3 April).