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[Mockngbrd]

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_645288.html

 

AN AUSTRALIAN had his three-week jail term for being unfit to drive set aside, after the High Court found it 'troubling' that he was convicted on an amended charge without being given the opportunity to defend himself.

 

Justice Steven Chong said the non-compliance with the Criminal Procedure Code was particularly serious in this case, as the prosecution had not produced evidence to support the amended charge.

 

On June 23, 2008, John Peter Worrall, 60, the vice-president of oil company Swiber Offshore Construction, was driving home to his Bayshore condominium in East Coast at 11pm, after meeting colleagues at Harry's Bar in Far East Shopping Centre.

 

His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road. He was later arrested for drink-driving.

 

After an eight-day trial that ended in August last year, he was convicted not of drink-driving, but of being unfit to drive. He was also convicted of not exercising due care and attention while driving, causing the accident - a charge he faced originally in addition to the drink-driving one.

 

He was sentenced to three weeks' jail and fined $6,000, and was disqualified from driving for four years on the first conviction, and fined $800 and given a four-month driving ban on the second.

[Whathefish]

u need answer?

 

John Peter Worrall, 60, the vice-president of oil company Swiber Offshore Construction

[Gearoil]

The AG better have a good explaination as to ...

 

Whether the White BOY was really ...DRUNK or just having a couple of drinks and this was detected in his breath and blood sample or not?

 

If it was detected then the drink driving charge should stick.

 

Unless becos it was 'skin color' then the everything somehow vaporised, just like the intended charges.

 

Sinkie are screwed AGAIN!

[SimonTan]

Live with it lah.

 

Time and time...cases & cases.....all the similar outcome.

 

Rich/Elite = Cheap cheap fine and no Jail.

 

Its always good to be rich in Singapore....

 

Buy kidney untill the law was changed to favour it.

Knock cyclist untill knock wood.

 

This case just adds to the reason why being rich is good!

 

 

[Kiadaw]

 

 

Don't understand what it means that not driving with due care & attention.

 

If not driving with due care & attention, a lot of the women drive will kenna liao, as many have very little sense of surrounding other than front view...oops

 

Just kidding.

Edited March 15, 2011 by Kiadaw

[Mike1234]

"It's an honest mistake, let's move on"

 

[Kiadaw]

Like I said before, if anyone can get away with mistaken a full grown human knocking & cracking your windscreen as tree branches, & not detecting a bicycle drag under your car for 2 km in Singapore, Anything can happen.

 

Why people are surprise, is what surprised me.

[Mike1234]

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_645288.html

 

AN AUSTRALIAN had his three-week jail term for being unfit to drive set aside, after the High Court found it 'troubling' that he was convicted on an amended charge without being given the opportunity to defend himself.

 

Justice Steven Chong said the non-compliance with the Criminal Procedure Code was particularly serious in this case, as the prosecution had not produced evidence to support the amended charge.

 

On June 23, 2008, John Peter Worrall, 60, the vice-president of oil company Swiber Offshore Construction, was driving home to his Bayshore condominium in East Coast at 11pm, after meeting colleagues at Harry's Bar in Far East Shopping Centre.

 

His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road. He was later arrested for drink-driving.

After an eight-day trial that ended in August last year, he was convicted not of drink-driving, but of being unfit to drive. He was also convicted of not exercising due care and attention while driving, causing the accident - a charge he faced originally in addition to the drink-driving one.

 

He was sentenced to three weeks' jail and fined $6,000, and was disqualified from driving for four years on the first conviction, and fined $800 and given a four-month driving ban on the second.

 

He was arrested of drink-driving which means he already exceeded the max of the limit...

 

And he was not Convicted of Drink-driving?

 

[Kb27]

In this country:

If you're somebody, you can get away with murder.

If you're nobody, you will rot in jail.

 

World class justice system !!!

[Shorty]

judicial system is becoming more n more a joke.

[Ender]

He was arrested of drink-driving which means he already exceeded the max of the limit...

 

And he was not Convicted of Drink-driving?

 

Not a familar with law, but I think this is prosecutor screwed up big time.

[SimonTan]

Aussie spared jail due to judge's lapse

Originally charged with drink-driving, he was convicted on amended charge without proof

By Khushwant Singh

 

AN AUSTRALIAN had his three-week jail term for being unfit to drive set aside, after the High Court found it 'troubling' that he was convicted on an amended charge without being given the opportunity to defend himself.

 

Justice Steven Chong said the non-compliance with the Criminal Procedure Code was particularly serious in this case, as the prosecution had not produced evidence to support the amended charge.

 

On June 23, 2008, John Peter Worrall, 60, the vice-president of oil company Swiber Offshore Construction, was driving home to his Bayshore condominium in East Coast at 11pm, after meeting colleagues at Harry's Bar in Far East Shopping Centre.

 

His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road. He was later arrested for drink-driving.

 

After an eight-day trial that ended in August last year, he was convicted not of drink-driving, but of being unfit to drive. He was also convicted of not exercising due care and attention while driving, causing the accident - a charge he faced originally in addition to the drink-driving one.

 

He was sentenced to three weeks' jail and fined $6,000, and was disqualified from driving for four years on the first conviction, and fined $800 and given a four-month driving ban on the second.

 

Worrall appealed against both and had the first one quashed yesterday.

 

Justice Chong said the prosecution did not present any proof that he was unfit to drive. It had merely tried to show that his alcohol level was above the legal limit of 35 micrograms per 100ml of breath.

 

However, Worrall's lawyers, Mr Gurdip Singh and Mr Jagjit Gill, had argued that their client's reading of 94 micrograms was due more to his having drunk wine after the accident.

 

As the car could not be moved, he left it where it was and went up to his apartment. There, he took four Panadol tablets for the pain in his chest and opened a bottle of wine. At about 11.30pm, he went down to the condominium's lobby to meet a police officer, and was arrested for drink-driving.

 

Justice Chong noted that while there was no doubt that Worrall had been drinking - he had admitted to having two glasses of beer and three glasses of wine in the four hours he spent in Harry's Bar - there was no basis to conclude that he was unfit to drive. The Australian had driven the 15km to 20km from Orchard Road to Bayshore Road without incident, and he told police that the accident happened because he was forced to swerve to avoid crashing into a taxi.

 

After the trial, District Judge Salina Ishak amended the drink-driving charge to that of being unfit to drive.

 

She had concluded that he was likely to have drunk more than he admitted before the accident.

 

But Justice Chong quashed this conviction, saying that she had accepted the defence lawyers' argument that Worrall had drunk wine after the accident, and so had already accepted that his blood alcohol level was less than the prescribed limit at the time of the accident.

 

Dr Chuang Wei Ping, the expert witness for the defence, also testified that after conducting two tests on Worrall, the maximum alcohol level he would have had at the time of the accident was about 29 micrograms per 100ml of breath.

 

Worrall will still have to pay a fine of $800 and face a four-month driving ban, but he looked relieved as he left the courtroom with his lawyers.

 

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[Greatbirdlegend]

Learn to accept.

Kpkb also no use.

Life becomes less complicated.

That's what I learnt recently.

Just read the threads on chiobus with big shining headlights.

[Jujitsuka]

He is an aussie so its only fair a kangaroo court frees him hahaha!

[SimonTan]

The prosecution did not take a photo or the police report wording tak-pakai?

It ticklish to read such things.

I love Singapore's justice!

 

 

 

Justice Chong said the prosecution did not present any proof that he was unfit to drive

 

His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road.

[Kiadaw]

Calm down fellow MCFers. Accusing ( & if I am not wrong, even questioning) our judicial system is a serious offence.

[Unfair]

The prosecution did not take a photo or the police report wording tak-pakai?

It ticklish to read such things.

I love Singapore's justice!

 

 

 

Justice Chong said the prosecution did not present any proof that he was unfit to drive

 

His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road.

What you hit after flying up the kerb is up to fate already.

Tree/lamppost/bus-stop...

 

 

 

[JaydenSTI]

The prosecution did not take a photo or the police report wording tak-pakai?

It ticklish to read such things.

I love Singapore's justice!

 

 

 

Justice Chong said the prosecution did not present any proof that he was unfit to drive

 

His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road.

 

 

it is the kerb and tree's fault!!!! in another words, it is the Big L and Big N fault!!!!!!