FORMER Rangers player Charlie Miller has kept his driving licence after being convicted of failing to provide a breath specimen.
Stipendiary magistrate Sukhwinder Gill instead fined Miller £500 and imposed 10 penalty points on his licence.
Miller, 38, from Bishopbriggs, who played for Rangers during the nine-in-a-row years, was also found guilty of urinating in the street.
Glasgow's justice of the peace court heard that Miller was seen urinating beside his Vauxhall Astra in Woodville Street, Glasgow, near to the Loudon Tavern on November 16, 2013.
Constable Alison Gormley said that she and her colleague Constable Graeme Collier saw Miller get out the driver's door. Two other men also got out of the car.
She told depute fiscal Kathleen O'Donnell: "Mr Miller proceeded to urinate at the car." Constable Gormley added: "When I spoke to him I noticed that his eyes were glazed and I could smell alcohol - stale alcohol - on his breath."
The court was told that initially one of the other men claimed he was the driver of the car, but then Miller admitted it was him.
Traffic police were called to the scene and Miller took a breathalyser test, which he failed. He was then taken to Helen Street police station where he refused to give a specimen of breath to police.
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