Lying motorist Rosarita Sigona - banned for being nearly three times the drink limit – was back behind the wheel weeks later, and still telling fibs.

She was stopped by police driving a Vauxhall Corsa illegally in Westwood Road, Westwood Cross, but claimed to be her sister.

The 41-year-old mother of three, of Freeman’s Road, Minster, said she was driving her children to school, knowing she was banned.

But Canterbury Crown Court heard that her deceit was only discovered when police compared photographs of the two women.

Sigona had earlier been banned for drink driving but had told probation she had only drunk two-and-a-half glasses of wine - a claim rejected by a judge.

She was later given a 28-month driving ban by Margate magistrates after being found with 98 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – the limit being 35.

Judge Rupert Lowe said: “That’s very high..she was very nearly three times over the limit. Two-and-a-half glasses of wine would hardly have taken her to the reading of 98 ml!”

Two months later, on June 20, she was stopped driving again – but lied to police officers by "blurting out" her sister’s name.

The judge told her: “You completely ignored an order of the court, which disqualified you from driving and then you were discourteous to police, when they quite reasonably asked you for details and then you lied to them.

“You showed a complete disregard for all the laws which were expected to keep you and your children safe.”

Probation Officer Linda Jaycock told the judge how Sigona claimed she had been out with her friends when her ex-husband had turned up.

“She told me that she had only two and a half glasses of wine when her tyres were stabbed and she had driven away. It was then that she crashed the car.”

Mrs Jaycock said she questioned Sigona about her claim who then added that she hadn’t eaten for a couple of days – but the judge retorted: “That wouldn’t have made any difference."

The probation officer added: “I told her that but that was all she was prepared to say she had. She says she is now trying to get a job as a manger in a public house.”

The judge told her that because of her children he would suspended the jail sentence: “You have got yourself into a terrible mess and committed serious offences.

“Some of the things you have told probation are very unlikely to be true. If it happens again there will be no excuse.”

She admitted perverting the course of justice, driving while disqualified and without insurance and was given a six-months jail sentence suspended for a year and ordered her to do an additional 100 hours of unpaid work for the community.

She was also banned from driving for a total of 35 months and fined £100 for having no insurance.