A CROWN court judge has been charged with drink driving, the Daily Post can reveal.

His Honour Judge Bruce Macmillan, 63, was pulled over after allegedly being seen driving erratically on a motorway.

He was charged with driving under the influence and is now facing a hearing next month.

The judge, who is believed to earn £128,000-a-year, lives in Liverpool and sits at the city’s crown court, will not hear any cases until his own has been dealt with.

If convicted he could be disrobed by the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor.

After being appointed to the Northern Circuit in October, 1993, Judge Macmillan has dealt with some of Merseyside’s most violent and dangerous criminals.

Earlier this year, he hit the headlines when he told a naked burglar his failed attempt to break into a Tesco store through its chimney would have been “decidedly comic” had the offence not been so serious.

And in 2007 the judge was also responsible for denying Akinwale Arobieke his appeal against an interim sexual offences prevention order stopping him from touching boys’ muscles.

Last Thursday evening Judge Macmillan’s black Vauxhall Signum was followed by a police patrol through Merseyside and along the M6 into Lancashire.

He was pulled over and breathalysed near the Charnock Richard services between junctions 27 and 28.

The senior lawyer was charged and released on bail. He is due to appear before Chorley Magistrates on September 30.