33 Year Old Disqualified From Driving Until 2019
Appearing in Magistrates Court this morning [Nov 28], 33-year-old Kevin Mendonca was fined $2,500 and disqualified from driving until 2019,.
Initially Mr Mendonca, a resident of Warwick, plead guilty to the first charge of driving whilst impaired on 14 November 2014.
The Magistrate advised him that perhaps he should listen to the second charge, as the second and alternate charge of refusing to take the breathalyzer test attracted a lower penalty.
The Magistrate put the second charge and Mr Mendonca plead guilty to that as well. The Magistrate asked the Prosecutor what she intended to do as only one charge could go ahead. The Prosecutor said that the Crown would offer no evidence on the first charge of driving whilst impaired.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo then convicted Mr Mendonca and fined him with a three year disqualification, however court records showed that he had been disqualified just over a month before, in October 2014.
The Magistrate’s final ruling was that the three year disqualification was to run consecutive to the previous two year disqualification, meaning that Mr Mendonca was effectively disqualified to October 2019.
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Drunk drivers should ALL be thrown off the road for several years. They’re taking people’s lives in their hands, and the penalty should be severe.
What about you? You must be one as well
Lose the attitude Kevin. the world ain’t against you. It’s you who are against yourself.
Get your facts straight before opening your mouth. You don’t know what you are talking about. All you losers should take a look in the mirror before dropping accusations
Are you serious? What about you? Look at yourself before judging others. You most likely do the exact same thing.
Time to give consecutive terms to a few more than just this character!
This is ridiculous!! Murderers don’t even have sentences run consecutively!!
I agree SNS. All the time we read about sentences running concurrently for murderers, burglars, violent offenders and the whole shebang of nasty crimes. Yet this man gets consecutive sentencing for DWI? I don’t condone his actions and agree with the sentence he received but surely this should be done with the aforementioned crimes as well. Our justice system makes no sense to me at all. It seems the worse the crime is, the less punishment one receives and the more rights those offenders have. The victims have none. If you’ve noticed, it is the victims, police and professionals who get grilled on the stands by lawyers during any trial while the offenders have the right to just sit there and smirk.
This is sending a message to those that drink and drive.
And so do you. Talk about yourself
Everyone says its sending a message, so why do people continue doing it?
How about sending a message to the High speeders out there, I was passed on N shore rd by more than 10 speeders yesterday. They need the same fines and disqualifications as the DUI’rs get.
No disrespect, but if you were passed by more than 10 speeders yesterday on North Shore, you were probably driving/riding slow…
Now we just need to send a message to murderers or those planning to commit murder/GBH.
drunk driving should be nothing less than 3 years off the road
and every time they drive while still disqualified add another 5 years
Yep, the people who cause the least amount of accidents, DUI drivers, should get the worst punishment.
You people are barking up the wrong tree.
You are one to talk. Keep your mouth closed and keep the comments to yourself jerk.
I hope you have your bus pass!! Your gonna need it! P.S. I’ll give you about 5 months until you get caught again! Next time they should throw you in jail for a year.
You should be in jail yourself. Keep running your
mouth loser. People like you are a bunch of hypocrites who have no life. Bus pass? I’m sorry I’m not lazy like some of you low life losers.
You are not lazy? erm OK what have you done in the past week ? Let us hear how active you are and what you have achieved.
Come on…
Acheived more than your dumb***
Calm down Kevin. Boo, you might need these people to give you a lift one day.
No I don’t sorry!!
This guy again? Smh. http://bernews.com/2012/12/man-jailed-for-having-sex-on-front-street/
Dude needs some professional help….or he really wants to get locked up……
Look whose talking!!
should have been banned for life!
Get a life!!!
They finally got-it-right!!
You have to wonder what effect this is going to have on his behaviour. After all, if he was already disqualified before he was stopped this time what makes anyone think that he’s going to obey the suspension this time around.
Really? You sound very dumb!!
Wow running your mouth. You are just as dumb as the rest of these idiots.
2019 thats ridiculous