Drink-drive mum crashes into parked vehicles with one-year-old in car

Leon Poultney
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Michelle O'Brien, 34, of 44 Corrigan Street, Gorton. A raft of charges including driving while nearly double the alcohol limit and being in charge of a child under 7. She stole her ex partner's car and drove it while drunk to get some cigarettes from the shop, then smashed it into some parked cars.
Michelle O'Brien, 34, of 44 Corrigan Street, Gorton. A raft of charges including driving while nearly double the alcohol limit and being in charge of a child under 7. She stole her ex partner's car and drove it while drunk to get some cigarettes from the shop, then smashed it into some parked cars.


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A drunken driver, who was carrying a one-year-old passenger, reportedly said, "Am I bothered?" when neighbours threatened to call the police.

Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court heard that Michelle O'Brien, 34, was caught drink driving in a Ford Focus after a neighbour was woken in the early hours by the sound of her ploughing into parked vehicles.

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