Janine Culley said she had been seeking 'me time' following a series of harrowing call outs
A firefighter who was caught behind the wheel over the drink drive limit claimed she was haunted by a series of 999 tragedies she had to deal with during her shifts.
Empty cider bottles seen in car On the evening of May 24 this year, the court heard that police came across Culley's vehicle reversing out of a car park a mile from her home in Greasby on the Wirral, Merseyside. When they spoke to her, she was said to be smelling strongly of alcohol and slurring her words. Three empty bottles of Westons Vintage cider were seen on the passenger seat.
One officer told her: “You are going through a s*** time so we will try and get you some support. But you cannot drive if you are intoxicated." "There were previously incidents involving dead children and 14-year-old boys hit by a bus. By the end of my shift on March 24, I was feeling completely overwhelmed.
"My intention was to leave the car, that is why I did not park the car or drink on the road. I was literally only two minutes walk from my sister's. I was planning on going after 10 o'clock when I knew my sister's sons would be asleep." Culley's lawyer, John Gallagher, told the court: ''She has been a firefighter for the best part of 23 years and as you can imagine has attended quite a wide range of very traumatic incidents. She is divorced and a single mother of a 17-year-old child. It would have been very hard to bring up the child in a fairly high-pressure work environment for a significant period of time.
Altrincham Greater Manchester Fire Service Trafford
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