Student DO suspended

A student dispensing optician has been suspended from the registers for 18 months by a General Optical Council fitness to practise committee after a conviction of driving with excess alcohol in March 2007.

Lyndon Clarke was found, in the early hours of the morning, to be two and a half times over the legal limit and was later disqualified for driving for 24 months and sentenced to a community order.

The Council also discovered that Clarke had received a fixed penalty notice for disorder in October 2005 and in December 2009 was on bail in relation to an allegation of causing actual bodily harm.