The UK's youngest National Lottery millionaire has been disqualified from driving after a rather ignominious fall from grace.
Callie Rogers, 33, of Rye Hill Road, Flimby, admitted charges of failing to provide a specimen for analysis and resisting a police constable when she appeared at West Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 24th March 2021.
It is an offence under section 7(6) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 for a person to fail, without reasonable excuse, to provide a specimen for analysis when required to do so. The maximum penalty for the offence is 26 weeks' custody and/or an unlimited fine.
Prosecutor Pam Fee described the incident giving rise to the offences, which took place in the early hours of Sunday, 20th December 2020.
Rogers had been out driving with her new boyfriend Jason Fearon, 31, when her Hyundai Tucson ploughed through a hedgerow near the town of Crosby.
A police officer came across the collision and as he approached the damaged car the occupants attempted to flee from the scene.
Rogers and Fearon were subsequently arrested on suspicion of being unfit through drink or drugs. As Fearon was walked to the back of the police van, he told officers "I told her not to drive".
Meanwhile Rogers, whose behaviour was described as "up and down", was becoming aggressive and trying to work free from her handcuff. An officer had to use PAVA incapacitant spray to subdue her.
"(Rogers) both said that she was, and that she wasn't the driver repeatedly to police officers," said Ms Fee.
Reports indicate that Rogers tested positive for cocaine on a drug swipe, but refused to provide a specimen of breath at the scene.
Mike Woolaghan, mitigating, told the court that there was no evidence Rogers had been driving (apart from, presumably, the admissions made at the scene).
He said: "I think she had been angry and annoyed at the way that she'd been treated."
Mr Woolaghan confirmed to the court that Rogers, who won £1.87 million on the National Lottery when she was 16, was now living on Universal Credit.
Rogers was made subject to a 12-month community order with an 11-week electronically monitored curfew requirement. She was ordered to pay £100 in compensation to the officer, £95 victim surcharge and £85 towards prosecution costs.
She was also disqualified from driving for 22 months.
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