A woman has pleaded guilty to drink-driving almost four times over the limit with two small children in the car.
Kylie Jean Antunovich, 29, appeared in Auckland District Court this morning where she entered her plea.
Dressed in a black top and a black-and-white patterned skirt, with her dark hair pulled back, she stood quietly in the dock as her lawyer Martin Hislop said she was set to embark on a rehabilitation course.
Antunovich was due to join an eight week residential course at Higher Ground next week, he said, and she had also abstained from alcohol since her arrest in December.
"My submission is that's an accomplishment that she got herself together," Mr Hislop said, adding that she had not had a drink for a "significant time now".