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In what was described by a defence lawyer as “a very sad case”, a County Tyrone man has lost his licence for 16 months.

Twenty-eight-year-old Emmet McElhatton from Greenvale Drive in the town was also fined £185 with a £15 offender levy for driving while having consumed excess alcohol.

McElhatton, an unemployed plumber, was given permission to take part in the drink-driving rehabilitation course which could result in his period of disqualification reduced to the minimum which is 12 months.

East Tyrone Magistrates Court, sitting in Dungannon, was told on Friday that McElhatton had been on his way to see his seriously injured aunt who was in Craigavon Area Hospital after falling down stairs.

Plumber was on his way to see seriously injured aunt in hospital