Champion jockey Murphy charged with drink driving

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been charged pinch portion driving and failing to co-operate pinch constabulary aft a car clang successful April.

The 29-year-old was arrested aft a grey Mercedes A Class collapsed into a character successful Hermitage, Berkshire.

Thames Valley Police said he has been charged pinch 1 count of driving a centrifugal conveyance while complete nan prescribed limit of intoxicant and 1 count of failing to co-operate pinch a preliminary trial astatine nan roadside.

"The complaint is successful relationship pinch a azygous conveyance roadworthy postulation collision astir 12.05 BST connected Sunday 27 April this twelvemonth erstwhile a grey Mercedes A Class near nan roadworthy and collapsed into a tree," constabulary said successful a statement.

Murphy, a four-time champion jockey, is owed to look astatine Reading Magistrates' Court connected 3 July.

He was charged connected 19 June, nan time he rode 2 winners astatine Royal Ascot.

A British Horseracing Authority connection read: "The BHA is alert of an update issued by Thames Valley Police this day regarding Oisin Murphy.

"We are now seeking to stitchery arsenic overmuch accusation arsenic imaginable successful bid to see what, if any, implications location are arsenic a consequence of this development."

In October Murphy said to BBC Sport astir really he had been having counselling, saying it had helped him greatly.

He returned from a 14-month suspension successful March 2023 having been banned for breaches of Covid-19 rules and doubly failing racecourse activity tests for alcohol.