A MAN who pleaded with a court to get a drink driving sentence reduced has lost the appeal.

Aylesbury Crown Court Judge Christopher Tyrer took just five minutes on Friday, to dismiss claims by Lee Harris, 24, of Mentmore Close, High Wycombe, that the two month jail sentence imposed by Wycombe magistrates on July 17 was excessive.

Prosecuting, Basil Hillman said police stopped Harris in his Vauxhall Astra in Station Approach, Beaconsfield, in November last year after spotting smoke coming from his exhaust.

But his glazed appearance suggested he was drunk and a breathalyser found he was twice the legal limit with 79 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35microgrammes.

Mitigating, Kirsty Allen said she felt a prison term as well as a three year driving ban was excessive and argued that although Harris accepted he had drank ten pints during that day, "there was nothing to suggest his driving was dangerous".

Judge Christopher Tyrer and two accompanying magistrates were urged by Miss Allen to substitute the prison term with a community-based sentence but her appeal was dismissed.

Judge Tyrer told Harris: "You showed a total disregard for road traffic laws and for anybody else using the road. There is nothing wrong with the sentence."