A mum-of-two who was filmed appearing to have sex in a public park has been banned from getting behind the wheel after being caught drink driving as she fled angry parents.
Joanne Louise Smith, 40, got dressed and jumped into her car after parents confronted her and another man who had been engaged in a compromising position in Roundhay Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire, on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Disgusted parents rang 999 up to half-a-dozen times as boozed-up Smith writhed on the floor with the man.
The video showed a writhing Smith, who looked semi-naked, on her back with her legs in the air as the male lies on top of her with his shorts round his knees and his bottom moving up and down.
A bystander filmed the apparently x-rated session until one father strode up to the couple and belted the male around the head.
This caused Smith and the male, who was described in court as her ‘partner’ to stop and after arranging their clothing drive away in her blue Honda Civic.
Leeds Magistrates’ Court heard that two police officers were dispatched to Roundhay Park at 2.30pm on 5 August.
Prosecutor Miss Toni McCann said there had been a report of a fight and the officers were directed to the Honda Civic, which was being driven away. They followed it for a short distance around the park’s perimeter before it pulled into Mansion Lance at about 2.41pm.
Smith was driving the car and she was invited out of the vehicle to speak to the officers. Smith provided a positive roadside breath test and then blew a lowest reading of 102 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – the legal limit is 35 – at the police station.
Smith, who lives with her son, aged 21, and her 13-year-old daughter, in Crossgates, more than four miles from Roundhay Park pleaded guilty to driving over the prescribed alcohol limit at an earlier court hearing and was sentenced on Monday.
Magistrates disqualified Smith from driving for 26 months, she was handed a six month community order, placed on a 9pm to 7am curfew for four months and must pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge also of £85.