"I'm not a drinker, that's the irony, so that's why I wanted to pursue it. It was a slur on my reputation.
"I understood the prosecution's stance that they needed to make an example but I'm very grateful that I had such a great legal team and the resources to be able to pursue it to its conclusion."
Mr Jones said he had been at a party where people were making Black Russians and he believed he had accidentally been passed a drink which contained alcohol.
"A lot of people were mixing drinks and I thought that I was drinking Coca-Cola and somebody said they had seen some alcohol being put into the Coca-Cola," he said.
He said he thought he had only had one or two drinks, and had been hugely surprised when police told him he was over the legal limit. "I was surprised because I couldn't possibly believe that what I'd had drunk could've failed a breathalyser."
Having seen the effects of drink-driving during his work as a cosmetic dentist, he did not blame police for choosing to charge him. "I don't hold any bitterness, drink driving is a terrible thing. Nobody should drink and drive so I understand the police decision to continue with the prosecution."
During Mr Jones' trial in Masterton District Court, the court had heard from a specialist scientist, Samantha Coward, that it was possible alcohol levels in the blood sample could have changed due to deterioration, as the second test was run five months and one week after the sample was taken.
But under cross-examination by Mr Jones' lawyer, Roderick Mulgan, Ms Coward could not confirm that deterioration had caused the variation in the second reading.
In his judgment, Justice Clifford concluded Ms Coward agreed with, or did not challenge, other evidence given by a doctor that not all samples do deteriorate.
"It must therefore be a reasonable possibility that the variation between the ESR results and Dr Madhavaram's results was not caused by the deterioration of the second bottle . . . I find the judge erred in concluding that she was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Jones' blood alcohol was 88 milligrams."
