MP Chester Borrows charged over protester incidentJared Smith Chester Borrows has been charged with careless driving causing injury. Former police officer and National MP for Whanganui Chester Borrows is being charged over allegations he drove into a group of protesters. An MP must resign from Parliament if convicted of a crime with a maximum penalty of two or more years' jail time. A charge sheet at the Whanganui District Court showed a 59-year-old man, Kerry James Borrows, had been charged with careless use of a motor vehicle causing injury to two people. Under section 38 of the Land Transport Act, the maximum penalty for careless driving causing injury is three months' jail, or a fine of up to $4500.

Source: Stuff July 11, 2016 23:50 UTC