BRITAIN’S youngest lottery winner has been banned from driving for nearly two years after failing to provide police with a breathe specimen for analysis after being pulled over for a suspected driving offence.
Callie Rogers, 34, of Rye Hill Road, Flimby, won £1.8 million when she was 16 in 2003, making her Britain’s youngest lotto winner.
She again hit the national headlines when national newspaper The Sun reported that Rogers ‘squandered’ her fortune on drugs, cosmetic surgery and designer clothes, and has reportedly found herself living on benefits.
Rogers is again in the news as Workington Magistrates’ Court heard this week that Rogers refused to give police a breath sample while she was suspected of driving her Hyundai Tucson 4X4 on Sunday, December 20, in Workington, under the influence of alochol.
She was banned from driving for 22 months, and a community order with an 11-week curfew was also imposed.
She must pay £85 costs and a £95 victim surcharge. A charge of failing to stop after an accident at Dearham Bridge Road was dismissed.
The incident in Dearham reportedly saw Rogers’ Hyundai crash through a farmers’ hedge.
A passing police officer stopped to help but Rogers and her boyfriend had both tried to flee the scene.
The police officer caught up to Rogers’ boyfriend Jason Fearon, 31, who allegedly resisted arrest before he was handcuffed.
The incident saw Rogers incapacitated with PAVA spray by the police officer as she attempted to escape her handcuffs.
Rogers returned a drugs swab that was positive for cocaine but she refused to give a breathalyser test.
The prosecutor at Workington Magistrates told the court that Rogers contradicted herself to police officers a number of times when asked if she was driving or not.
Mike Woolaghan, defending told magistrates that the driving ban would have a considerable impact on Rogers, a single mother.
Mr Woolaghan took the stance in court that there was no evidence Rogers was the one driving.
He added that it was the lottery win at such a young age that had led to Rogers’ struggles.
She became a target for fake friends with an agenda who took her cash.
Two women assaulted her in a jealous rage on a night out in 2018, leaving her with numerous injuries including a concussion and broken ribs, Mr Woolaghan added.
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