PS I'd be willing to bet my life savings that he'd had more than five pints.
From experience, drink drivers are almost never, ever honest about what they've had. If I had a quid for every time somebody told me they'd only had two pints and couldn't understand it, I'd be doing pretty well for...
And the fact that he crashed.
Aggravating factors in sentencing include having a crash, having a very high reading (as you say), injuring somebody, having previous convictions for the same offence, and so on.
I think Wilkins is quite lucky he's avoided prison this time. He's on a suspended...