‘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.

‘Sleepwalking’ jockey gets drive ban

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.

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