Mr Day fined Jodi Gai Barrett, 34, of George Weily Place, $550 and disqualified her driver’s licence for six months after she was caught drink driving with a reading of 0.149 in Molong Street, Stuart Town, at 3.55pm on February 4.

Mr Day told Barrett that everyone’s driving is affected with a reading of 0.1 or higher.

“In my view the reading is so high it requires some punishment,” he said.

“You just [avoided] the high range, the consequences would have been that much different had you just had one more drink and decided to drive.”

Barrett was represented in court by solicitor Olla Otrebski who handed up character references to Mr Day and said it was her client’s first offence. 

She said Barrett’s driver’s licence had also been suspended since the incident, a period of about two-and -a- half months.

“It’s on the upper end of the mid range, my client does understand the risk,” she said.

“She’s a carer, volunteer and member of the community.

“My client has held her licence for a period of 16 years and she has one offence and that was doing a u-turn.

“That is not the record of someone who is a serial offender or a serial law-breaker.”

In the other matter, James David Offner, 33, of Byng Street, was fined $660 and his driver’s licence was disqualified for four months.

He was caught driving on Peisley Street with an alcohol level of 0.112 at 1.10am on February 11.  

He was arrested and taken to Orange Police Station for further breath analysis and told police he had five beers between 6pm and 9pm.

Offner was represented by solicitor Mick Madden who said there was nothing on his client’s criminal record and his client needed his driver’s licence for work.

He said Offner’s licence had been suspended since the incident. 

“He also did the Traffic Offenders Intervention Program where he finally realised why they do that program, that things can go wrong, that his licence is a privilege, not a right,” Mr Madden said.

Mr Day said there was nothing about Offner’s driving that drew police attention.