A Hastings lawyer convicted for her third drink-driving charge has had her sentence increased.
Sacha Maria Beacham, 39, was fined $1200 plus court costs and disqualified from driving for nine months by Judge Brooke Gibson in Auckland District Court last Friday.
But Judge Gibson has since issued a minute to say the nine-month disqualification period had been substituted for a sentence of one year and one month.
The Land Transport Act states that on a third drink-drive conviction the court must impose a driving disqualification for more than one year.
The charge was laid after a police officer, concerned about the way Beacham's 2000 S-Type Jaguar was being driven, pulled her over just after 2.30am on January 15.