CHAMPION jockey Oisin Murphy has been banned and fined after pleading guilty to drink driving.
The troubled rider, 29, has been suspended from driving for 20 months and given a £70,000 fine by a district judge.
Murphy was arrested by cops after crashing a car into a tree in the early hours of April 27 near Hermitage in Berkshire.
He was breath-tested seven hours after the crash and found to have 66 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath, nearly twice the legal limit.
The charge of failing to provide a sample to police at the roadside was dropped after what was described as a ‘misunderstanding’ by agent for the Crown Prosecution Service Richard Atkins.
Murphy expressed remorse and apologised to the female passenger who was travelling in his car, to the public and to his colleagues in the weighing room.
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