A drink-driving local mayor, who police found to be more than twice the legal limit, knocked a cyclist of their bike as he drove home seven miles from a party where he had “drank about four or five pints of Stella”.

The mayor of the Shropshire village of Clun, Ryan Davies, was sentenced over his drink-driving and received a 20-month driving ban and was ordered to pay £3,017 in a fine and costs, the Mail Online reports.

Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court heard how the cyclist, Cain Western, was riding home from work and was wearing a high-visibility vest, and had lights and reflectors on his bike. He was hit from behind by the drink-driver and knocked off his bike. 

Davies slowed but did not stop immediately. Having initially continued driving he then did return to the scene, another person explaining that the local mayor had hit a cyclist.

According to the prosecutor, while Mr Western was unable to identify the registration or the driver, another person at the scene “identified the driver as the defendant, who then got back in his car and left the scene”. When the police arrived they found a wing mirror and went to Davies’s address where it was noted the mayor’s Mercedes was missing a mirror.

Davies said he had last drunk three hours before, police subsequently arresting him after he failed a breathalyser. The court heard he was two times over the legal limit with 183 milligrams of alcohol in his system, the legal limit in the UK 80mg/100ml of blood.

Matthew Davies, defending, said his client “works as an agricultural legislator and is the mayor of Clun”.

“He is very reliant on his licence for work and his duties as mayor. He does a lot of work in the community. He now admits he would not have driven, having been drinking. He has confirmed with the barman that he had four pints of Stella.”

The drink-driving mayor was ordered to pay £3,017 of fines and costs and was banned from driving for 20 months.

Davies appears to still be the village’s mayor and chairman of Clun Town Council. Social media images show him attending Buckingham Palace “to represent Clun” earlier this year.