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Man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving in Belgium
short by Ankush Verma / on Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
A Belgian court acquitted a man in a drunk-driving case after his lawyer explained how a rare metabolic condition causes his client's body to produce alcohol. The man suffers from auto-brewery syndrome. He was first fined by police in 2019 and pulled up again in 2022, however he learnt about his condition after his latest run-in with police.
read more at The Independent