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Arseholes like this are why we have the rules and regulations that irk "competent" drivers.

Drink-drive person caught again

A serial drink-driver has been jailed after he was caught driving over the limit only three months after killing his stepson in a motorcycle crash.

Andrew Marting, 43, of Headington, Oxford, was on bail after an accident in May, which end the 15-year-old, when he was stopped again in August.

His stepson Charlie died after he was thrown from Marting's motorbike.

Marting, who has seven drink-driving convictions, was jailed for three years and banned from the road for ten years. Sentencing Marting, Judge Julian Hall told his barrister that he found it "staggering" that he should be drink-driving while on bail following the tragedy. Oxford Crown Court heard that Marting had a string of motoring convictions dating back as far as 1979, but that in recent years he had appeared to turn his life around.

But prosecutor, Neil Moore, told the court that on the afternoon of 23 May, after drinking in a pub in Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, Marting took the teenager as a pillion pbuttenger on his motor bike and set off along a country road towards Bletchington.

Coming around a bend he saw a motorist driving slowly behind two cyclists, waiting to overtake.

But it was too late and as he braked suddenly he lost control of the bike and Charlie was thrown off into the path of an oncoming car.

Mr Moore told the court that a number of police officers at the scene had told the court that Marting "smelled of alcohol" and was "slightly unsteady on his feet" with red, glazed eyes and slurred speech.

He had told an officer: "I've had a couple," the court heard.

A breath test found that he had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his body.

The judge said: "I find it really quite staggering that someone who is on bail for killing his stepson by careless driving over the limit should find himself behind the wheel of a car in the meantime."