Former Popstars: The Rival contestant and last year's UK Eurovision entrant Javine Hylton has been handed an eighteen month driving ban after she pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol.
The singer was stopped by police on 15 Dec last year whilst driving a Mercedes convertible through London's West End. Prosecutor Marc Robinson explained that police stopped Hylton after she was seen driving erratically, changing lanes without indicating and pulling out in front of a bus. A subsequent breath test revealed she was more than twice the legal limit.
District Judge Quentin Purdy issuing the ban, as well as a £1,000 fine, said "sometimes families have to pick up the consequences of this sort of irresponsible activity at coroners' courts when someone is killed or seriously injured."
The singer was also sentenced over a separate offence of failing to show up for an earlier hearing, the result, according to her lawyer, of a mix-up over dates. She was fined £200 for failing to answer bail.