Motorists fined for alcohol offences
Two men each received hefty fines in Magistrates’ Court for alcohol offences on the roads.Jahkai Hill, 21, of Warwick, was ordered to pay $1,000 and banned from driving, after police on mobile patrol on December 26 were alerted to a white Mercedes Benz being driven at high speed in Southampton.According to Crown counsel Kirsty-Ann Kiellor, police took a position at the Paget lights, and stopped the vehicle as it proceeded east at around 8pm.Hill, the driver, told them: “I just had a couple of Heinekens. I’m coming from Rangers.” A breath test measured 125 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner gave him 30 days to pay, and disqualified Hill from the roads for 12 months.A 27-year-old Devonshire man was also fined after police found him with a bottle of beer in his car.The court heard that near 5pm on December 21, police at Point Pleasant Road, in Pembroke, noticed Omar Govia drinking a Guinness in the driver’s seat of a car. The key was in the vehicle’s ignition.When ordered to give a sample of breath, Govia blew out of the side of his mouth. He was arrested for being in a vehicle without due care.Govia told Mr Warner: “I was not drinking out of a Guinness bottle. There was a bottle in the car, empty, in a brown paper bag.”Mr Warner fined him $1,000, with three months’ imprisonment in default.