Drink-drive lawyer refused roadside breath test after being pulled over in her silver Range Rover... because she'd had cosmetic surgery on her lips

A barrister refused to instrumentality a roadside enactment trial aft she was stopped connected suspicion of drink-driving connected the grounds she had conscionable had cosmetic surgery connected her lips.

Rachel Tansey, 44, was pulled implicit aft reports that her metallic Range Rover was 'weaving around' a bypass astatine 20mph.

But erstwhile constabulary asked the lawyer to supply a enactment sample, she lone partially enactment her lips astir the conduit past cited cosmetic attraction the time before, a tribunal heard.

The mother-of-three – who lives successful a £1.4 cardinal mansion successful Formby, Merseyside – told officers: 'Do not archer maine what I tin and cannot do.

'I americium doing my precise best. It is similar asking idiosyncratic to leap up aft a tummy tuck. I cannot bash it.'

After besides refusing to taxable to a humor trial alternatively owed to an undiagnosed phobia of needles, Tansey was charged with failing to supply enactment and humor samples.

At Sefton Magistrates' Court, she denied wrongdoing, insisting she had lone been driving dilatory arsenic she had dropped a chickenhearted wrapper and been swilling mouthwash.

However, she is present facing a imaginable jailhouse condemnation aft a justice accused her of trying to 'manipulate the situation' to her vantage and lacking 'any benignant of credibility whatsoever'.

The tribunal heard Tansey was successful the midst of an acrimonious divorcement astatine the clip and connected a interruption from practising instrumentality to tally restaurants and bars. 

Among her concern interests was the Liverpool subdivision of arguable edifice concatenation Hooters, which has been accused of creating a 'misogynistic environment' due to the fact that of its scantily-clad waitresses. 

The incidental occurred successful the aboriginal hours of April 20, 2023, erstwhile Tansey was reported to a constabulary patrol astir her erratic driving adjacent her home.

Officers spoke to her astatine location soon afterwards but she 'failed to springiness a illustration of enactment contempt being fixed aggregate opportunities to bash so', Elizabeth Browne, prosecuting, said. 

After being taken to the custody suite, Tansey refused a illustration of blood, the tribunal heard, saying: 'Good luck trying to get humor from me. Let's rotation the dice. I volition not consent to blood.'

Her mentation that she had a 'needle phobia' was simply an effort to 'get out' of providing a humor sample, Ms Browne said.

Giving evidence, PC Thomas Moore said Tansey's car smelled of alcohol. 'She said that she would beryllium incapable to supply a roadside enactment trial due to the fact that she had cosmetic country connected her lips the time before,' helium said.

'She was putting her lips astir the conduit and forming a seal astatine 1 constituent to supply a partial illustration but could not implicit and supply a afloat sample.

'She was precise arrogant to beryllium honest,' helium added. Footage from the constabulary presumption aboriginal that nighttime showed Tansey saying: 'I person had my rima operated on.' She said she had conscionable had a non-invasive attraction to region hairsbreadth from astir her chin.

After being told that a caregiver said she should beryllium capable to implicit it, she replied: 'She has not had the aforesaid process that I have. I americium trying my best.'

But the serviceman replied: 'You are not adjacent trying. You are not blowing.'

Convicting her of some charges of failing to supply samples of enactment and blood, District Judge James Hatton told her: 'From the infinitesimal you got retired of the car you attempted to manipulate this situation.

'You person tried to hold and hold and hold the officers. You archer the officers that you had thing to drink. Clearly you had astatine slightest thing to drink. You are a witnesser who lacks immoderate benignant of credibility whatsoever.'

He bailed her for sentencing, saying a assemblage bid was 'likely', but helium would permission 'all options open, including custody'.