I've got a lovely house, pleaded drink-driver as she was arrested

A SENIOR children's worker has lost her job after she gave a pitiful excuse to police arresting her for drink driving.

- BY KENNY PARKER, HELENA VESTY

Melissa Truswell tried to brush off police during the arrest by pleading: “I am a really nice person. I have got a lovely house.”

The 41-year-old was stopped by traffic officers after they spotted her Mercedes being driven erratically two miles from home.

But when she was asked to provide a roadside breath test, Truswell failed to blow into the bag properly and instead burst in tears, describing her arrest as 'evil' and insisting she was a 'decent girl'.

During her meltdown, Truswell said: “Please don’t destroy my life. I’m trying to blow. I was trying it for you there.

“I will show you that I am a decent person. Come on, you know I am a nice person. But you are going to treat me like I am a tramp.

“Does that make you feel quite special? You know I mean I’m a decent girl. Why have you done that to me? I am a really nice person. I’ve got a lovely house.”

Truswell lives in a £350,000 three bedroomed detached in Romiley, Stockport.

Inquiries revealed she had a previous conviction for drink driving from 2009.

At Wigan Magistrates Court, Truswell pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis. She lost her job as a senior residential support worker with a childcare company following her arrest.

The court heard the incident happened at 11.40pm on August 6 last year, when police saw Truswell’s white Mercedes being driven along the street with its hazard warning lights illuminated.