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"A former England defender found in a drunken stupor on the floor of his sports car after he ploughed the convertible into a garden wall has admitted leaving another vehicle abandoned on a slip road, a court heard today.
Ilkeston Magistrates Court was told that Gary Charles, 33, shunted the silver Mercedes into a series of obstacles in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in September, before he ran the vehicle into a hedge in a pub car park and fell asleep.
Kerry Clay, prosecuting, said that in May the ex-Nottingham Forest player, whose career was ended through injury last year, left excrement marks on the rear seat of a hire car found in Worcestershire.
She said police officers spotted that the vehicle had collided with a crash barrier on a slip road off the A448 Bromsgrove to Redditch by-pass.
Charles had earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to provide a specimen - one of which relates to the car abandoned on the slip road - dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
"In May, police found the vehicle abandoned in a dangerous position on a slip road with music blazing out of the car and the keys still in the ignition," she said.
"They said there was a foul smell, a rancid odour, and saw excrement on the rear seat in the impression of a hand print, as if someone had been trying to wipe it off themselves."
Charles, of Highstairs Lane, Stretton, Alfreton, Derbys, was last month fined after he admitted being drunk and disorderly as he walked into Redditch that afternoon, swigging from a bottle of vodka."
Ilkeston Magistrates Court was told that Gary Charles, 33, shunted the silver Mercedes into a series of obstacles in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in September, before he ran the vehicle into a hedge in a pub car park and fell asleep.
Kerry Clay, prosecuting, said that in May the ex-Nottingham Forest player, whose career was ended through injury last year, left excrement marks on the rear seat of a hire car found in Worcestershire.
She said police officers spotted that the vehicle had collided with a crash barrier on a slip road off the A448 Bromsgrove to Redditch by-pass.
Charles had earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to provide a specimen - one of which relates to the car abandoned on the slip road - dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
"In May, police found the vehicle abandoned in a dangerous position on a slip road with music blazing out of the car and the keys still in the ignition," she said.
"They said there was a foul smell, a rancid odour, and saw excrement on the rear seat in the impression of a hand print, as if someone had been trying to wipe it off themselves."
Charles, of Highstairs Lane, Stretton, Alfreton, Derbys, was last month fined after he admitted being drunk and disorderly as he walked into Redditch that afternoon, swigging from a bottle of vodka."
