‘Sleepwalking’ jockey gets drive ban

Dungarvan jockey Tom Queally has been banned from driving for 22 months after claiming he was sleepwalking while drink-driving.

Queally, who was more than twice over the limit after being found asleep behind the wheel of his BMW, claimed he had not been drinking, then “rolled” out of a police car and lay down on the ground after being arrested, Crewe Magistrates’ Court heard.

However, his lawyer Nick Freeman, who is known as “Mr Loophole”, claimed that the 30-year-old, most famous for being the regular jockey of “wonder horse” Frankel, was “morally totally innocent” as he was “sleep driving”, and claimed the law needed to be changed.