A man faces being sent to jail after drink driving twice in just five days while serving a suspended sentence for a violent attack.

Tudor Lupas, 33, was caught almost four times the drink drive limit and then less than a week later was back behind the wheel when he left another driver with serious injuries after crashing while drunk.

Norwich Crown Court was told at the time he was still subject to a 27-week suspended jail sentence imposed for a drunken attack at a party that had left a man with a fractured jaw and serious facial injuries.

Lupas, of Marlpit Lane, Norwich, has admitted drink driving, failing to stop after an accident, refusing to provide a specimen and breach of his suspended sentence.

Adebisi Adenaike, prosecuting, said on May 6 the Romanian national had been found asleep in the driver’s seat of a car with the engine running, on Bank Street in Norwich, after police had been called.

A roadside breath test recorded a reading of 130ug of alcohol - almost four times the legal limit of 35, however he later refused a breath test at the police station.

Then, on May 11, he was arrested again after fleeing the scene of an accident on Grove Road in Hellesdon where his car had struck another leaving its driver with deep lacerations to his forehead.

Witnesses had seen him driving on the wrong side of the road and swerving erratically before the accident and he had been found to be more than twice over the drink drive limit, said Ms Adenaike.

Michael Clare, mitigating, said while they were “very bad examples” of drink driving they would normally be sentenced to lengthy periods of disqualification.

He said Lupas, who now works as a Just Eat bicycle delivery rider, had complied with most of his suspended sentence order, including 150 hours of unpaid work, and had “not touched a drop of alcohol since June 1”.

Recorder John Freeman deferred sentence until February 9 but warned him being sent to prison was a “very real prospect”.

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