Drink-drive wife caught by hubby; COURT.A VIGILANTE vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers and shooters, and husband shopped his wife to the police after he caught her drinkdriving, a court was told. Mum of three Kaye Kaye , Danny 1913-1987. American entertainer known for his comedic roles in such motion pictures as Wonder Man (1944) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1946). Peters, 38, decided to drive home from her parents in the early hours after drinking, unaware her worried husband Simon was out looking for her. He saw the trainee supermarket manager's Vauxhall Corsa, flagged it down and then took his wife to Blackpool Blackpool, city (1991 pop. 146,297) and district, Lancashire, NW England, on the Irish Sea. Famed as a traditionally working-class resort (with often inhospitable weather), Blackpool has 7 mi (11. police station where she failed a breathalyser test. Michael Woosnam, defending, yesterday told town magistrates: "It's an unusual case. In effect she confessed after being taken in by her husband who was profoundly angry at the time." Peters, of Blackpool, was banned from driving for 18 months and fined pounds 220. |
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