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January 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Court bans Audrey Baxter, 50, from driving for a year
By
Charlotte Thomson
Last updated at 9:25 AM on 6th January 2012
She is the multi-millionaire head of one of the country’s most renowned food companies.
But Audrey Baxter, chief executive of
Baxters food group, has now been banned from the road after admitting
drink-driving on Christmas Eve.
The 50-year-old, one of Scotland’s richest women, was caught over the limit after driving her sick partner to hospital.
Banned: Audrey Baxter, 50, pictured leaving court today, had her driving licence taken away from her for a year after being caught at the wheel over the limit
Baxter had been attending a function before going home to prepare food and drinking two large glasses of wine.
She later discovered her partner’s
condition had deteriorated and drove him to hospital. When the couple
arrived at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin, Moray, she parked her Range
Rover over an ambulance bay.
Medical staff suspected she had been drinking and police were called.
Following a later breath test, Baxter was found to be more than one-and-a-half times the legal limit.
At Elgin Sheriff Court on Wednesday, the businesswoman admitted drink-driving.
Fiscal depute Shona Duncan told the court that Baxter had arrived at the hospital at around 9pm on December 24 last year.
Offence: Staff at Dr Gray’s Hospital, Elgin, reported the Baxters soup boss to police
She was asked to remove her 4×4 from
the ambulance bay some 45 minutes after she arrived and was seen driving
away shortly afterwards.
When police went to the tycoon’s Elgin
home, she admitted to police officers: ‘I know I shouldn’t have driven.
My husband is sick and I had to take him to the hospital.’
The court heard a breath test revealed Baxter had 58mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg.
Soup boss: Audrey Baxter, in her younger days, tries out the family product and (left) a tin of Baxters soup
Defence lawyer Diane Turner said that
her client had attended a party for a short time a few hours before the
incident and then returned home to prepare food for the next day.
Her partner had been feeling unwell and was asleep. She then had two large glasses of wine while cooking.
Miss Turner said: ‘She went upstairs
to check on her partner and she discovered he was very unwell and he did
require to go to the hospital.
‘She was unable to obtain a taxi and simply put him in the car. She was extremely concerned.’
Her partner was eventually diagnosed with gastroenteritis and dehydration. Baxter was told to take him home and put him to bed.
Miss Turner said her client accepted full responsibility for her actions and apologised to the court on her behalf.
The loss of her driving licence would
be a considerable inconvenience to Baxter because she travelled
extensively, the court heard.
But Sheriff Susan Raeburn disqualified
the businesswoman from driving for a year and fined her £600. Baxter
was given 14 days to make full payment.
The businesswoman’s partner is
believed to be Keith Bell, who was manager of The Foot Garden shoe shop
in Elgin when the couple reportedly got together in 2002.
Baxters has become a household name by
producing soups, preserves, condiments, chutneys and other products for
more than 140 years.
Four generations of the family have been involved with the business, based in Fochabers, Moray.
According to the company’s website,
‘each recipe is carefully developed with the personal guidance of
Audrey Baxter and our dedicated team of experienced chefs’.
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If my soups were that bad I’d be on the bottle….
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Excessive punishment. A year ban? Outrageous.
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Drink driving is an offense under the law,But we all know what the law is don’t we!.
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Along with others I don’t condone drink driving but why do some people get away with it and others do not when they have a far more valid reason for their actions? I would have thought that a maximum of 3 months ban in the circumstances of this case was sufficient.
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Yes it’s really good that she took him herself to hospital instead of waiting for an ambulance, however, to park in an ambulance bay is really not on. What if an ambulance had arrived with a critically ill patient and couldn’t have got near the door because of her selfishness. She deserves to be banned just for that alone.
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******Whilst I have no sympathy for anyone caught drink driving unless Scottish law is different the police have no powers to change her for parking in the wrong bay
– iy, Dumfries and Galloway, 6/1/2012 8:16*******
There’s no mention in the article of police having any involvement in the parking bay issue. it just mentions that she parked in the ambulance bay. The ambulance is of courxe what she should have called and not driven him.
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She blew 58mg, this was after the drive, parked for 45mintues and then drove home. So when she drove to the hospital over 1hour earlier was more over the limit and probably nearer double.
If police got her having drove back home she should of claimed ‘the hip flask defence’. i.e got home had a large brandy or two hence her reading.
She would of got away with it.
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That’s a very bad call by the court. Her punsihment is rather harsh! Maybe if she was a footballer who needed his car to attend training sessions she would have been given points and a fine instead. the driving law has no consistancy. What would anyone else have done… call for an ambulance?!!!
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She did not waste the courts time.She pleaded guilty. She did have a “special reason” in law to drive. This special reason ends on arrival at the hospital Why did the court not use its powers to not disqualify due to special reason? After all real criminals with 12+ points are given this exemption repeatedly.
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If my wife fell sick and I had been drinking, I would have NO hesitation in driving her to hospital rather than risk her well being. It’s all very well saying you can call an ambulance but this is usually only possible in a dire emergency and after a doctor’s visit. Sometimes other things matter more than the letter of the law. Obviously I do not mean driving in cases where people are incapably drunk.
– The History Man, France, ==== Whats the difference between incapably drunk and been drinking. When it comes to driving, drunk is drunk. If your wife was ill enough to warrant a hospital visit wouldn’t that be a “dire emergency”?, and no, you don’t ever have to have a doctor to call an ambulance. My wife had abdominal pains in the night and was sick. I called an ambulance who were with us in minutes. There is no excuse for drink driving.
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