On Mar 9, 7:27*am, Doug wrote:
On Mar 8, 9:10*am, Simon Mason wrote:



On Mar 8, 7:02*am, Doug wrote:

On Mar 5, 3:22*am, Simon Mason wrote:

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A MAN has been put off the road after he was caught drink driving more
than four times the legal alcohol limit.

Gordon Edmond, 59, had been driving along Wellgrove Road, Westhill, on
September 2, 2010.

Edmond admitted the drink driving offence and that he had 144
microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millitres of breath – which exceeded
the legal limit of 35mcg.

Sheriff Annella Cowan placed the drink driver on a community payback
order and ordered him to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Edmond, whose address was listed in Aberdeen Sheriff Court papers as
27 Grampian Mobile Homes, Elrick, was also disqualified from driving
for three years and was ordered to be of good behaviour for six months
following the drink driving offence.

David Maughan was banned from driving for two-and-a-half-years after
he was caught drink driving.

Maughan, 56, admitted drink driving in on Rowan Drive and Eigie Road
Balmedie on July 1, last year.

Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard Maughan, whose address was given in court
papers as 20 Eigie Avenue, Balmedie, was caught with 105mcg of alcohol
in 100ml of breath – exceeding the legal limit of 35mcg.

Sheriff Graeme Napier disqualified Maughan from driving for two-and-a-
half years and ordered him to pay a £900 fine for the drink driving
offence

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/2645729

The shame is he will be allowed back on our roads after a relatively
short interval, to pose a threat again to others, and his punishment
is derisory as usual.

Yes, but unlike jail sentences, driving bans last the whole term and
you do not get let off on parole.

Are you trying to suggest that a driving ban is considered worse than
a jail sentence?

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In some case yes.
You could be jailed for a week, come back to your old job and after a
few years of keeping your nose clean, it is all in the past and you
have moved on.

Or you could be banned from driving for three years, lose your job,
house, wife, social life, mobility, the lot.
Once you have no job, the downhill descent can be very rapid with no
way of getting out of it.

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Simon Mason