PHOTO: ODT FILESA nursery worker who drove himself to hospital on New Year’s Eve after being stabbed has been convicted and discharged over a drink-driving charge. In the Invercargill District Court yesterday, Judge John Brandts-Giesen said Hunter had tried to defend his partner and was assaulted. His partner could not drive as she had no licence, had also been drinking and might not have been capable of towing a trailer, Judge Brandts-Giesen said. Judge Brandts-Giesen said it was fear which caused Hunter to drive. The judge took the unusual step of neither disqualifying Hunter nor imposing any penalty on him in relation to the aggravated drink-driving charge.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 28, 2022 15:32 UTC