Leicester City footballer Hamza Choudhury fined for drink-driving

Hamza Choudhury was also given a 40-month driving ban

Leicester City footballer Hamza Choudhury has been fined £20,000 after being caught drink-driving on the wrong side of the road.

The 26-year-old midfielder was stopped by police in Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of 19 January.

Nottingham Magistrates' Court was told he had been returning to a restaurant to retrieve his phone.

Choudhury pleaded guilty to driving while double the legal alcohol limit.

He also admitted careless driving.

'Extremely embarrassed'

Defence lawyer Kally Sahota told the court Choudhury had shared a taxi home from a restaurant with a friend but had returned in his wife's car after realising he had left his phone behind.

Choudhury, of Edwalton, Nottinghamshire, was also given a 40-month driving ban, which will be reduced by about nine months if he completes a drink-driving rehabilitation course, the hearing was told.

The player was also ordered to pay a £2,000 victim surcharge and £85 in prosecution costs.

District judge Sunil Khanna told Choudhury: "I do accept that this will impact you and that you are extremely embarrassed by what has occurred."