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Team GB star Phillips Idowu banned for drink-driving

 

Monday 07 October 2013 17:33 EDT
Idowu, pictured here during the 2012 London Olympics, has been banned from driving and ordered to do community service
Idowu, pictured here during the 2012 London Olympics, has been banned from driving and ordered to do community service (Getty Images)

Former Olympic triple jumper Phillips Idowu has been banned from driving and ordered to do community service after he admitted fleeing a domestic argument in his Land Rover while two and a half times the legal alcohol limit.

Idowu pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court yesterday, with his solicitor saying he was “forced him to leave the house in a hurry” last month to “get away from the circumstances which had unfolded at the house”.

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