A Peterhead drink-driver was celebrating his birthday and marking the day of his dad’s death, a court has heard. Ian Weatherall was at Peterhead Sheriff Court to be sentenced for being five times over the drink-driving limit when he was caught by police on March 19 this year. “It was his birthday, it was also the anniversary of his father’s death,” Mr Hilton-Rhind said. “This evoked a particular sense of remorse and regret for Mr Weatherall as he knows first-hand how catastrophic the consequences of drink-driving can be. “A combination of grief, alcohol addiction and incredibly poor decision making have found him before the court today,” Mr Hilton-Rhind added.