London, March 11: English heavy drinker Nicky Welfare is losing all his teeth because of his boozing – at the age of 22, The Sun reported today.
Welfare, who lives off £60.40 ($90.45) a week in unemployment benefits, sinks 24 cans of strong lager and two litres of cider every day.
The jobless boozer hit the headlines last May after a judge called him “a walking advertisement” for those who said alcohol is too cheap.
He gave Welfare four months’ jail, suspended for two years, for criminal damage.
On Wednesday, Welfare was back in court in Kent, southern England, for driving while banned.
Louise Oakley, defending, said, “because of substance misuse, alcohol and drugs, he has got to have his teeth removed and have false teeth.”
Judge Philip Statman invoked the jail term and urged Welfare to call Alcoholics Anonymous.
—Agencies