FORMER Liverpool footballer and Whitegate resident Dean Saunders is to be charged with dangerous driving.
The 54-year-old had appeared at Chester Magistrates Court on Friday, May 31, charged with two motoring offences.
Saunders, who scored 22 goals for Wales during an international career spanning 15 years, pleaded not guilty to failing to comply with a roadside breath test when stopped by police officers on May 10 in Boughton, Chester, and to failing to provide a breath sample for analysis later that day at the West Cheshire Custody Facility in Blacon.
The hearing was adjourned until Monday, June 3, for a case management hearing.
But Monday's case management hearing heard the Crown Prosecution Service has since reviewed the evidence and Saunders will now have to answer to an additional charge of dangerous driving in connection with the same incident.
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As the charge of dangerous driving is an 'either-way' offence, that means Saunders – who was excused from attending the hearing before District Judge Nicholas Sanders – will have to return to court to provide a plea and say whether he wishes the case to be heard at Chester Magistrates Court or Chester Crown Court.
Saunders was rebailed unconditionally until his next court date.
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