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Wills Pal Pelly Claims iPhone Could Have Interfered With Breath Test

The Smartphone Defense

Tom Sykes

Royalist Correspondent

Updated Apr. 14, 2017 4:48PM ET / Published Feb. 26, 2014 5:46AM ET 

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More news from the great drink-driving trial of Prince William's pal, Guy Pelly, the pink cheeked London party organizer and nightclub promoter.

Pelly, 32, who refused to give a breath sample to police when stopped driving his Audi R8 through central London last year, telling a policeman, "I don't want to," when asked to blow into a breathalyzer machine, is now claiming in court that his iPhone could've interfered with the breath testing machine used in the police station!

It's certainly a ballsy defense. But will it work?

Charlotte Dale, an independent forensic alcohol consultant called by the prosecution, thought not, telling the court, according to a report in the Daily Mail, that the idea that, "two independent specimens," that matched each other to be incorrect was, "too incredible".

The trial continues. Pelly denies driving a motor vehicle when his alcohol level was above the limit.

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