Former Scotland international Colin Hendry has had his drink-driving case adjourned after claiming that his metabolism gave him a higher alcohol level when taking a breath test.

The ex-Rangers and Blackburn Rovers defender was arrested in Lytham in Lancashire last month after being pulled over by police in the early hours of the morning and failing a breath test.

However, Blackpool Magistrates' Court heard that he admitted consuming alcohol, but not enough to register the level of alcohol shown by the test.

His lawyer, Glyn Lewis, told the Daily Mail: "Usually we go to sentence and it is inevitable he would have to be disqualified because he has entered a guilty plea because he accepts the facts. But the instructions I have over the amount of alcohol consumed and the time period, when you do the calculations they don't correlate with the figure he has given.

"There are two possibilities, one is because of the fact that he has got some alcohol in his system he is unaware of and the other is quite rare is we have somebody whose metabolism is such they provide a specimen of breath which does not correlate with the reading of blood.

"We have had a forensic scientist give us an indication that the figures provided by the defendant don't correlate with the figures given by the sample. Mr Hendry might have to be tested for his metabolism in the lab with a reconstruction of the whole evening's events. The ratio between breath and blood is not the same for everyone."

Hendry was granted bail until April 22, when the case will appear before the court again.