Kiefer Sutherland faces jail over drink driving charge

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Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland faces a jail term of up to 60 days after he was arrested yesterday on suspicion of drink driving.

It is the fourth time the actor has been arrested on DUI related charges and he is currently serving a five-year probation term for a 2004 conviction.

In 1989, he was arrested for drink driving and carrying a concealed loaded weapon and again faced DUI charges in 1993.

Lawyer and DUI expert Lawrence Taylor told American magazine People: "Sutherland could get up to 60 days in jail or worse, depending on varying circumstances."

Sutherland was pulled over at around 1:10am in Los Angeles after officers spotted him making an illegal U-turn.

The 40-year-old tested over the state's legal blood alcohol limit of .08 percent and was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence, Officer Karen Smith said.

He was released around 4am after posting more than £12,000 bail, according to Sheriff's Department records, and is scheduled to appear in court October 16.

Sutherland, who won a best actor Emmy award last year for his performance on the Fox TV series 24, has a well documented history of Hollywood hell-raising.

He developed a reputation for bad-boy petulance and a penchant for alcohol and bar fights following his split from Julia Roberts in the early Nineties.

While his personal life was making headlines, his career came to a virtual standstill, and he spent two anonymous years as a cowboy on the rodeo circuit.

"I needed to get away," he admitted years later. "I was doing awful work and justifying it on the basis that I had bills to pay."

In 2005 after reviving his career with hit show 24, times he was famously pictured drunk in a bar with trousers round his ankles.

Hollywood hell-raiser: Kiefer Sutherland is well known for his wild ways. In 2005 he was famously caught with his pants down - literally - during a night out

Sutherland has admitted he enjoys his partying lifestyle, insisting it does not interfere with his work.

He said last year: "I like to go to the pub and have a good time. I like a whisky every once in a while you know. But I consider that my time.

"I've never been late for a day's work in my life - what I do in my own time is my business."