Driver off road for 2.5 years

A 23-YEAR-OLD Kingsthorpe man caught drink-driving and then driving under suspension taking his car home hours later will be without his driver’s licence for two-and-a-half years.

William Philip Rummenie was seen to drive into a Ruthven St service station about 3.50am on February 27.

Police saw the 23-year-old park his car nearby and walk off only to be stopped by police who breath-tested him at 0.129, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

Checks found he was on a curfew driver’s licence prohibiting him from driving between 11pm and 5am, the magistrates court heard.

Released from the watch house at 5.20am, Rummenie was handed a notice of licence suspension and told not to drive, police prosecutor Anita Page told the court.

However, at 10am the same day he was captured by the service station’s CCTV cameras driving off in his car, she said.

Rummenie pleaded guilty to all four offences.

Acting Magistrate Lisa O’Neill placed Rummenie on 12 months probation and disqualified him from driving for two and a half years.