KEY POINTS:
A Napier woman has had the remaining months of her home detention sentence cancelled due to a technological problem with her monitoring anklet.
Bernadette Foley, 52, was in sentenced to three months home detention after a third drink-driving conviction.
However, one month into the sentence it was discovered the Chubb monitoring system could not transmit properly from her Onekawa home.
She appeared in Napier District Court yesterday to be given an alternative sentence.
Judge Tony Adene reluctantly changed Foley's sentence to 250 hours of community work and supervision, but said it was with "considerable misgivings on my part" because of the precedent it would set.
- NZPA
