Falling asleep 18 months jail: causing injury 12 months home detention
Thursday, September 18th, 2008On his third drink driving charge, three charges of careless driving causing injury were not enough for Judge Anne Kiernan to imprison Jason Peters despite having caused injury to a number of people in an accident at Maramarua in May 2006.
As we noted in a post in May 2007, a judge imprisoned for 18 months a driver with a history of drink driving for being well over the limit. No one hurt, no one killed - over the limit and fell asleep at a petrol station. The family had pleaded for home detention instead of imprisonment. The judge is reported to have said he had “no choice but to sentence Perenara to prison“.
Can we have a little consistency please?