Four months jail for young man
Greymouth reporter ] “It is a sad day for the community when a young man appears in court on four charges of driving with an excessive blood-alcohol content,” Mr N. L. Bradford, S.M., told a defendant in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth when sentencing him to four months jail. John Peter Cain, aged 20, a tradesman’s assistant, had earlier admitted driving with an excessive blood-alcohol content on December 16 (184 mg December 22 (157 mg January 7 (124 mg and January 11 (156 mg |
He had also pleased guilty on two separate occasions to driving in a manner which! might have been dangerous! and to careless use of a ve--hide. Mr K. J. Taylor said the defendant had recently com-| pleted a course of treatment! for alcohol at Hanmer Springs. The defendant had been drinking almost continually ' during the Christmas-New Year period and had littlerecollection of the offences. The defendant was admitted to 12 month probation to follow his jail sentence and was disqualified from driving for three years. I
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Press, 7 April 1979, Page 4
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