Dean Saunders: Former Liverpool, Wales and Aston Villa striker given 10-week prison sentence

Former Wales, Liverpool and Aston Villa striker Dean Saunders has been jailed for 10 weeks.

The 55-year-old pleaded guilty at Chester Magistrates’ Courts to failing to comply with a roadside breath test and failing to provide a breath sample for analysis.

He was stopped on suspicion of drink driving by police in Boughton, Chester, on 10 May, pleaded guilty by letter yesterday and was sentenced on Wednesday.

Saunders, of The Paddocks, Whitegate, near Northwich, Cheshire, had initially denied both charges at an earlier hearing.

Saunders was also banned from driving for 30 months and ordered to pay court costs of £620.

He said he had been out at Chester Races and had drunk two pints.

His lawyer suggested this may have ‘interacted’ with the medication he takes for injury to his knees and his inhaler for his asthma.

Police who arrested him said Saunders was slurring his speech and had to prop himself up against his Audi A8 car when he was asked to get out of the vehicle.

He was due to go on trial on Wednesday, but indicated through his lawyers on Tuesday that he would not be contesting the charges and entered his guilty plea on Wednesday morning.

Passing sentence, District Judge Nicholas Sanders told him: “Throughout these proceedings you have shown yourself to be arrogant, thinking you are someone whose previous and current role in the public eye entitles you to be above the law.

“In fact the opposite is true – someone in the public eye should expect a deterrent sentence when they flout the law.”

Saunders was capped 75 times for Wales and won the FA Cup with Liverpool in 1992, a club he played 61 times for and scored 25 goals.

After the FA Cup success, Aston Villa then paid £2.3m for him and was the club’s top scoring player in three successive seasons.

He left for Turkish club Galatasaray after scoring 49 goals in 144 games.

His foray into management was less successful and has had spells in charge of Wolves, Wrexham, Doncaster, Crawley and Chesterfield.

In recent years, he has been working as a TV and radio pundit.

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