A 64-year-old mother-of-five has told how a legal blunder has seen her wrongly hauled before the courts for drink-driving on her disability buggy.

Brenda Jones had been drinking brandy and cokes at her Maidstone home alone one afternoon when she crashed her mobility scooter into a parked car on a trip to the bank.

She was charged with driving a motor vehicle while over the alcohol limit, which she admitted at court.

But Mrs Jones is now embroiled in a row over whether she can be prosecuted at all, after a court heard her scooter cannot be classed as a "motor vehicle".

Mrs Jones said: "I hold my hands up and I’m happy to take the rap. I was drink-driving so I should be punished."

A Crown Prosecution Service source called the case "a total mess".

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