\n Jake Fiennes, 56, was driving on the B1105 Wells Road in Walsingham on September 18 when he was stopped by police.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fiennes, whose brothers are famous actors, gave a reading of 80 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit of 35mg.\n<\/p>\n
\n At King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (October 8), Fiennes, of Walsingham Road, Burnham Thorpe, pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while the alcohol level was above the limit.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Fiennes appeared at King’s Lynn Magistrates Court on Thursday (October 8) (Image: Chris Bishop)\n<\/p>\n
\n The court heard that, on the evening of the incident, he received a call from a friend who had been left stranded and in distress.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fiennes had an unspecified amount of wine, but was focused on collecting and bringing the friend home.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dave Fowlkes, mitigating, said he had not planned to use his car on that evening and had been “fully co-operative” with police.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added that his client was “very well regarded” and “valued” in his role as the head of conservation at the 25,000-acre Holkham Estate near Wells and that they intended to keep employment open to him.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jake is the brother of Ralph Fiennes, who starred in the Harry Potter and James Bond series (Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Fowlkes also highlighted that there were no aggravating features or injuries and asked the court to take into account the potential impact that any sentence could have on his job.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fiennes, who had no previous convictions, was disqualified from driving for 17 months.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He was also fined \u00a31,200, along with a victim surcharge of \u00a3480 and \u00a385 prosecution costs.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is also the twin of Joseph, who played Gareth Southgate in Dear England (Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n
\n He comes from a well-known family, with two of his brothers highly regarded actors.\n<\/p>\n
\n His twin, Joseph, starred in the Gareth Southgate-themed play Dear England and Shakespeare in Love – the latter earning him a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is also a brother of Ralph, who played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series and M in the James Bond series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Fiennes, 56, was driving on the B1105 Wells Road in Walsingham on September 18 when he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}