yesterday fined a total of $1,150 by Senior Magistrate Will Francis.

Llewellyn Lawrence, of Studio Lane, Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty to driving while impaired when he appeared in Magistrates' Court.

Police Prosecutor Sgt. Phil Taylor told the court that Lawrence was spotted by another motorist driving in an unsafe manner.

"The motorist then alerted a Police officer who observed the same thing and pulled Mr. Lawrence over,'' said Sgt. Taylor.

He added that Police officer asked Lawrence, who had his children driving with him at the time, if he had been drinking.

According to Sgt. Taylor Lawrence's children asked him for the keys to the house, at which point Lawrence pulled the keys out of the car and started to walk off.

Lawrence was arrested and taken to St. George's Police Station and charged.

In court yesterday Lawrence complained to Mr. Francis about his treatment in Police custody and said he was upset about the way he was handled in front of his children.

However Mr. Francis shot back; "You say you care about your children -- I find that very hard to believe, if you cared about your children so much, why were you driving impaired?'' Mr. Francis fined Lawrence $450 and disqualified him from all vehicles for a year for driving while impaired.

Yesterday Lawrence also pleaded guilty to driving an unlicensed car and driving without insurance.

He was fined $500 for driving without insurance and $200 for driving an unlicensed car.

MAN CHARGED WITH PUBLISHING DEFAMATORY LETTER CTS Man charged with publishing defamatory letter An organist at St. John's Anglican Church was yesterday charged in Magistrates' Court with unlawfully publishing a defamatory document against an Anglican Church Minister.

Pembroke Parish resident William Duncan, represented by attorney Saul Froomkin, did not enter a plea and was ordered by Senior Magistrate Will Francis to return to court on June 2. Leighton Rochester appeared for the Crown.

Duncan is charged in connection with an October 1996 letter -- sent to Anglican Church Archdeacon Arnold Hollis -- allegedly impugning the character of Reverend William Hayward.

The charge, which falls under the summary offence of defamation, carries a maximum prison term of one year.

If the offender however knew the defamatory matter to be false, he can be convicted of an indictable offence in the Supreme Court and subject to two years in prison.