A GP has been banned from driving for two years for drink-driving.

Jane Hornsey, 53, who was suspended 18 months ago from her practice in Keighley, had denied the offence, which happened in Kilnsey, near Skipton, on October 18, 2009, but she was found guilty by Skipton magistrates last month.

The mother-of-four, of Millers House, Arncliffe, failed to convince the Bench she was sober when her car crashed into a wall and that she had drunk a half-bottle of vodka before the police arrived.

A breath-test revealed she had 93 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – the limit is 35mcg.

The hearing was adjourned until yesterday for reports when Hornsey was sentenced by magistrates to a 12-month community order, with 60 hours of unpaid work, and a 24-month ban, which will be reduced by a quarter if she completes a drink-drivers’ rehabilitation course, costing £140, by May, 2012.

She was also ordered to pay £500 costs.

At the trial, her lawyer, Simon Broad, said Hornsey had been in an emotional crisis as her husband was suffering bowel cancer and she had a depressive illness.

In July last year, Hornsey, who graduated at Leeds University in 1982, pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court to assaulting a police officer by biting.

The attack occurred at the same time as the drink-driving offence.

She was conditionally discharged for 12 months and ordered to pay £500 compensation to the police officer and £500 prosecution costs.

Hornsey is still awaiting the outcome of a General Medical Council Fitness to Practice hearing.

A GMC spokesman said there had been an interim orders panel meeting since the suspension which was held in private but the full hearing had yet to take place.