22 - Sunday, August 11, 1996 — North Shore News

Driver caught drinking
and driving again while
court-ordered ban on

Judge orders jail time and another driving prohibition

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

MICHAEL John Wilkey was pro-
hibited from driving for three
months whea he was sentenced for
drinking and driving in February.

wee A little more than a month later, on March
29, Wilkey was at the wheel of his red Honda
Civic and drunk.
A North Vancouver Mountie pulled Wilkey
over in Lower Lonsdale.
Wilkey blew 0.23 and 0.24 for alechol in
“his blood, Those readings are more than two

umes the fegal limit of .08 (80 milligrams of

alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood).

The police officer noted that the 26-year-
old CN Rail worker almost hit a parked vehicle
as he was stopping his car.

The officer stated that Wilkey’s face was
flushed, his speech was slow and deliberate and
there was a “moderate” smell of alcohol com-
ing from Wilkey’s direction, said Crown lawyer
Trevor Cocktield.

Cockfield was speaking during sentencing
proceedings in North Vancouver provincial
court.

Wilkey pleaded guilty on July 10. to
impaired ‘driving and driving, while prohibited
in connection with the incident.

On Wednesday, Judge Bill Rodgers jailed
Wilkey 21 days.

@-~ Fourteen days of the sentence were for the
impaired charge and seven more days were for
driving while prohibited.

Said Rodgers, “If you come before the

courts again (on drinking and driving sentene-
ing), you can expect to go to jail in terms of
months, not just days,” said Rodgers.

Rodgers also prohibited Wilkey from. dri-
ving for 18 months.

In February, Wilkey was fined $300 and was
prohibited from driving for three months in
connection with a charge of driving with a
blood alcohol greater than .08.

Wiitkey's lawyer Dan Sudeyko pointed out
that that charge related to an incident that hap-
pened in April 1995, 10 months previous to
February's sentencing.

Concerning the latest impaired charge,
Sudeyko said Wilkey and his girlfriend had
been drinking beer and wine at the beach, The
defence lawyer said Wilkey’s girlfriend was sup-
posed to drive,

“She was apparently in worse shape than
Mr. Wilkey,” said Sudeyko.

Sudeyko said his client acknowledges that
he has a drinking problem.

“He indicates that this is not going to hap-
pen again,” said Sudeyko.

The Crown lawyer bad asked for 14 days in
jail and an 18-month driver's licence suspen-
sion,

Sudeyko did not disagree with the suggest-
ed jail sentence using electronic monitoring.
He asked for a 12-month licence suspension as
his client had already been unable to drive by
court order this year.

The judge did not object to the jail sentence
being served by electronic monitoring.

Wilkey’s second impaired offence was
reported to police after he drove his car out of
the Chevron gas station near Main Street.

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