by Marcel Baum
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Subscriber only The director of a prominent Brisbane events company sporting a multimillion-dollar turnover was found asleep behind the wheel in the middle of a busy road with an extremely high blood alcohol reading, a court has heard. Appearing at Cleveland Magistrates Court yesterday director, of Ascot-based LOUD events Marianne Elizabeth Edmonds, 45, pleaded guilty to one count of driving while under the influence of liquor. The court heard tests confirmed Ascot woman Edmonds had a blood-alcohol level of 0.211 per cent - more than four times the legal limit - when she was found by police on November 8.