A driver who rammed the gates of the Prime Minister's house was detained in the UK (3 photos + 1 video)
Matthew Wootten deliberately crashed into the gates of the Prime Minister's Chequers residence, causing more than £38,000 in damage. And he himself was injured. 
A Briton was three times over the legal limit for alcohol behind the wheel and tried to break into the Chequers estate, which is provided to the Prime Minister of Great Britain Keir Starmer as an official country residence. As a result, the driver broke the oak gates and himself was seriously injured.
Matthew Wootten, 44, has been jailed for 32 months after he deliberately drove his car into the Victory Gate at the entrance to Chequers, a country estate near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. 
The driver failed to slow down and crashed through the 80-year-old oak gates leading to the estate, which is the official country residence of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. As a result, his Volkswagen Scirocco crashed into the bollards located behind the gates. Matthew himself was seriously injured. Police found that not only was he drunk, but there were several cans of alcohol in the car. Wootten had 221 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80mg.
The crash caused more than £38,000 worth of damage to the 16th-century estate.
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Celia Mardon, senior prosecutor at the Thames and Chilterns Crown Prosecution Service, said: "CCTV footage showed Wootten deliberately driving at high speed towards the gates of Chequers. The strength of this evidence, coupled with the significantly high level of alcohol in his blood, left him with no choice but to plead guilty to the charges we have brought."
He was also disqualified from driving for 40 months. Matthew himself did not explain why he got behind the wheel drunk and decided to pay a surprise visit to Keir Starmer at his country residence.
