The unconventional step came at the request of Judge Michael Turner, who took the defendant’s guilty plea last year. Grant told the judge he wrote it as a letter to his former self “trying to teach the ways of actually thinking”. It took three days to write and four to record the song, Grant told the court. While Judge Turner was struck by Grant’s music, he was not impressed by his conduct that night. Judge Turner said he could not remember the last time he had granted such an application for a drink-driver.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 12, 2020 15:33 UTC