Teaching assistant Samantha Thompson drove home from the pub while three-and-a-half times the legal limit.The 43-year-old had been drinking wine at pubs in Smallthorne and Burslem after going to the funeral of a family friend.But a member of the public reported her to police as she set off from the Duke William, in Burslem, to drive the short distance to her Middleport home on May 2. Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard officers then went to her house, where she admitted drink...
