A Bay of Plenty school principal who crashed his car into a roundabout had a blood alcohol level four times over the legal limit.
Kutarere School principal Kenneth Henry was sentenced to 12 months’ supervision when he appeared in Whakatāne District Court on Wednesday on a charge of driving with excess blood alcohol.
The court heard Henry, who has two previous convictions for drink-driving, underwent a blood alcohol test after the crash.
It returned a reading of 206 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit for driving is 50mg.
Henry’s lawyer, Lisa Ebbers, told Judge Christopher Harding the defendant had been having a “rough time the past few years”, with health issues and a relationship breakdown.