Army nurse who served in Afghanistan guzzled free wine and port in sergeant's mess before drunkenly crashing her new £22,000 BOBO while more than twice the limit

Rachel Boddy (pictured right) attended a meeting at the mess at Colchester Barracks, Essex, after finishing work at around 4.30pm. After drinking several glasses of the free alcohol, the 33-year-old (pictured left with her colleagues, circled) then got behind the wheel of her new car and drove home. Minutes later, she ploughed into a parked Ford Transit van, which shunted into two other vehicles. She wrote off her vehicle, losing £16,000. The nurse, who has served in Afghanistan, also faces internal Army disciplinary proceedings and could lose her job. When police officers arrived at the scene, they found Boddy's had been twice over the legal drink-drive limit. Her reading was 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath - the legal limit is 35mg.