Drink driver too ashamed to ask friends for character references

By Fairfax Media
Updated June 23 2014 - 6:47am, first published 4:00am
ASHAMED: Joel Grahame Beldham was a 22-year-old sales assistant when he was caught driving with a mid-range blood-alcohol reading of 0.143.
ASHAMED: Joel Grahame Beldham was a 22-year-old sales assistant when he was caught driving with a mid-range blood-alcohol reading of 0.143.

A MAN who was caught drink-driving told the Orange Local Court he was too embarrassed and ashamed of what he had done that he could not ask friends to write character references. 

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