A NURSE has pleaded guilty to a drink drive charge over a crash that killed Royal Grammar School secretary Judy De Gelas in West Wycombe.

Jacqueline Loosley today pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving while under the influence of alcohol at Aylesbury Crown Court.

She pleaded not guilty to death by dangerous driving while under the influence of alcohol. No further action will be taken over this.

The 46-year-old, of Gardens Close, Stokenchurch, was charged following a collision in High Street, West Wycombe on June 2.

Loosley, who works at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, will be sentenced on September 22.

The court was today told Loosley has ‘alcohol dependency syndrome’ and was sectioned twice this year.

Dafna Spiro, defending, said: “She is a nurse in an operating theatre for 28 years and all was relatively well until January this year when, during the severe weather conditions, a journey which should have been a half an hour journey took her nine hours to go home from Stoke Mandeville and that triggered something.”

And she said: “She was under the management at work of a nurse called Jackie Benson who had serious concerns about Mrs Loosley.”

This had instigated an inquiry, she said.

Mrs De Gelas died two hours after the collision.

Her two grandchildren were also injured and airlifted to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital and later released.