Man charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse.
IT was only a question of time before it happened and within seconds it did. Shying away from a bewildered walker, the horse hurdled a hedge and unapologetically dumped its drunken rider in the mud. "He was rolling from one side of the saddle to the other," Pc Butler said of Robert Gibbs's demeanour. It was late one December afternoon and Butler was walking through the Waterside hamlet of Marchwood when he saw a horse galloping at such speed he feared for the safety of a man coming in the opposite direction, but just as a horrific accident seemed inevitable, it suddenly swerved, leapt...