A BOOZED up Army major was caught on CCTV joyriding in a forklift truck in Kenya.
The Iraq and Afgan war veteran swerved jail and kept his rank after breaking into a warehouse and tearing around in almost total darkness at 2.30am.
Maj Andrew Griffiths, 42, was fined 18 days pay and given a severe reprimand at a court martial in Catterick.
Security footage showed him staggering past a warehouse at the Army’s Nyati barracks in Nanyuki.
The married dad-of-one then clambered through a window and jumped behind the wheel of a forklift.
Griffiths spent four minutes zooming round the warehouse with the forklift’s lights picking a route through the darkness.
When guards arrived he congratulated them for turning quickly.
He told them: “Don’t tell anyone I’ve been drinking and driving a forklift.”
He tried to explain away his bizarre high jinks by saying he was testing security at the warehouse against potential break-ins.
At Catterick Military Court, Judge Advocate Tom Mitchell told Griffiths he was “sceptical” about his explanation.
He added: “I’m not sure even you know why you were there that night. It was an act of drunken stupidity.”
Griffiths admitted one charge of contravening standing orders by driving an MoD forklift truck while under the influence of drink.
Judge Mitchell told Griffiths, who has a previous conviction for drink driving from 2006: “You cut quite a sorry figure in all of this, you have shown a degree of remorse for what you have done.”
The incident happened at 2.30am on April 13th this year, with no one else present.
