Watch drink-driving Leicester City star Hamza Choudhury heading wrong way on road The midfielder was fined and banned from the roads
This video shows the moment Leicester City star Hamza Choudhury was stopped by police while drink-driving. The 26-year-old midfielder can be seen driving his wife’s Range Rover on the wrong side of the road towards Nottingham city centre in the early hours of January 19 this year.
The police dashcam footage shows the £12,000-a-week star leaving Melton Road, West Bridgford, and driving on the wrong side of Loughborough Road before moving through a gap in the central reservation to get onto the correct side. The police then turn on their blue lights and Choudhury, from Edwalton, stops his car in the second lane outside the offices of Nottinghamshire County Council.
Choudhury, who was arrested at the scene, gave two breath-test readings at a police station. The lowest reading was 71 mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, which is more than twice the legal limit of 35mcg, prosecutor Ben Payne told Nottingham Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Thursday, February 29).
Leicester City’s Hamza Choudhury given huge fine and ban for drink driving
Choudhury was fined £20,000 and banned from driving for three years after admitting to drink-driving and careless driving. Mr Payne said in court that Choudhury had a previous conviction for drink-driving from 2017, which means he is facing a compulsory ban of at least three years. Defence lawyer Kally Sahota explained to the court that Choudhury had taken a taxi home from a restaurant with a friend, but had driven back in his wife’s car when he realised he had forgotten his phone.
