Anthony Hayes-McDonald was fined and sentenced to nine months supervision and disqualification from driving after pleading guilty in Masterton District Court to a charge of drink driving. FILE PHOTO
Anthony Hayes-McDonald was fined and sentenced to nine months supervision and disqualification from driving after pleading guilty in Masterton District Court to a charge of drink driving. FILE PHOTO
A 24-year-old delivery driver has been convicted for driving while more than three times over the legal alcohol limit.
Anthony Terence Hayes-McDonald appeared in the Masterton District Court yesterday charged with driving with an excess breath alcohol reading of 847 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath when he wasstopped at a checkpoint on SH2 in Carterton on July 24.
He entered a guilty plea to the charge through lawyer James Elliott, who said the offence would have implications for Hayes-McDonald's job in Wellington as a food delivery driver.
Judge Anthony Walsh sentenced him to nine months' supervision, disqualified him from driving for nine months and fined him $900, plus $130 in court costs.
He also ordered Hayes-McDonald to attend drug and alcohol counselling as directed by probation and barred him from owning a car for 12 months.
