Worriedrelative
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My sister in law is an alcoholic, so bad that she has developed wernickes korsakoff which is an alcoholic dementia. This was 5 years ago. She lives with her husband 100s of miles from her family and she's been drink driving for years and years. We have tried everything to stop her, but she has a friend who keeps helping her with money and even goes as far as to pay to have her car fixed after a drunken crash.
We have anonymously reported it to the police including her reg but nothing is ever done.
Her husband tries to stop her but gets physically abused.
We have no money no means as a family to help or pay for treatment and its even harder she won't admit she has a problem. The dementia means she don't even remember it happened etc. She should not be driving at all.
Finally she was caught Monday night, and blew 136 over 100ml of breath I'm not sure what that means.
She has had loads of running with the police.over last few months and court appearances due to the abuse on her husband, but.nothing previous for drink driving.
She has court on the 17th June, although she had.no idea of the date and thinks she's going to get away with a fine because of her mental capacity (it's worked previously with the abuse cases)
Does anyone know.what is likely to happen. Of course we want her licence taken away, and if this happens does this mean she can't get insurance as we are certain she will try to drive again.
Her husband.doesnt speak to us (he has some.mental health issues also and has recovered from being an alcoholic).
It's a nightmare.
Will this mean she's.offered more.help? In the past the police don't seem to want to deal with it or refer her, they just send her to live with her friend who is fuelling the drinking and giving her.money etc.
Due to her mental health issues she will flat out deny she has a drinking problem and is very convincing at being 'compus mentus' as they say.
We have anonymously reported it to the police including her reg but nothing is ever done.
Her husband tries to stop her but gets physically abused.
We have no money no means as a family to help or pay for treatment and its even harder she won't admit she has a problem. The dementia means she don't even remember it happened etc. She should not be driving at all.
Finally she was caught Monday night, and blew 136 over 100ml of breath I'm not sure what that means.
She has had loads of running with the police.over last few months and court appearances due to the abuse on her husband, but.nothing previous for drink driving.
She has court on the 17th June, although she had.no idea of the date and thinks she's going to get away with a fine because of her mental capacity (it's worked previously with the abuse cases)
Does anyone know.what is likely to happen. Of course we want her licence taken away, and if this happens does this mean she can't get insurance as we are certain she will try to drive again.
Her husband.doesnt speak to us (he has some.mental health issues also and has recovered from being an alcoholic).
It's a nightmare.
Will this mean she's.offered more.help? In the past the police don't seem to want to deal with it or refer her, they just send her to live with her friend who is fuelling the drinking and giving her.money etc.
Due to her mental health issues she will flat out deny she has a drinking problem and is very convincing at being 'compus mentus' as they say.