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 was stopped 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.
