More Judges Like This One, Please!

A barrister refused to take a roadside breath test after she was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving on the grounds she had just had cosmetic surgery on her lips.

Rachel Tansey, 44, was pulled over after reports that her silver Range Rover was 'weaving around' a bypass at 20mph. But when police asked the lawyer to provide a breath sample, she only partially put her lips around the tube then cited cosmetic treatment the day before, a court heard.

The mother-of-three – who lives in a £1.4 million mansion in Formby, Merseyside – told officers: 'Do not tell me what I can and cannot do.

'I am doing my very best. It is like asking someone to jump up after a tummy tuck. I cannot do it.'

If - after reading that high-handed attempt at evading consequences - you have an image in your head of just what she looks like, you won't be disappointed.  

After also refusing to submit to a blood test instead due to an undiagnosed phobia of needles, Tansey was charged with failing to provide breath and blood samples. At Sefton Magistrates' Court, she denied wrongdoing, insisting she had only been driving slowly as she had dropped a chicken wrap and been swilling mouthwash.

Ha ha ha ha! Well, no doubt she's seen other judges fall for such lame-ass excuses, so why not try her luck? 

However, she is now facing a possible jail sentence after a judge accused her of trying to 'manipulate the situation' to her advantage and lacking 'any kind of credibility whatsoever'.

Ah, that's why. Not all judges are morons. 

Convicting her of both charges of failing to provide samples of breath and blood, District Judge James Hatton told her: 'From the moment you got out of the car you attempted to manipulate this situation. 'You have tried to delay and delay and delay the officers. You tell the officers that you had nothing to drink. Clearly you had at least something to drink. You are a witness who lacks any kind of credibility whatsoever.'

Round of applause for his honour! 

He bailed her for sentencing, saying a community order was 'likely', but he would leave 'all options open, including custody'.

I wonder what options her firm are holding open?