Drink-driver reported to the police by residents
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RESIDENTS called 999 to report a drunk man sitting in a car, who subsequently drove off.
Damian Dwogewski was in a car with a woman in Henley Road, Dane Hills, Leicester, at 3am on February 8.
Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard people were “concerned about their behaviour”.
Prosecutor Kwok Wan said the 29-year-old warehouse worker drove away after the police were called, but he was found stopped further up the same street.
Mr Wan told the court on Thursday: “Mr Dwogewski was asked to take a breath test and gave a reading of 98 microgrammes in 100ml of breath – that’s just seven microgrammes short of being three times the legal limit.
“He replied ‘no comment’ to the questions the police put to him.”
Mr Wan said the defendant had a previous conviction, from last year, for being drunk and disorderly in public.
Dwogewski, who represented himself at the hearing, told the court: “I want to say sorry and I will not do that any more. That was my first time.”
District Judge Nick Watson told Dwogewski: “This is a high level of alcohol in your body and the sentencing guidelines say I should consider a community punishment, such as unpaid work or a curfew.”
Dwogewski told the judge he worked various shifts at his warehouse, which is about five miles from his home in Overpark Avenue, Braunstone, Leicester.
The district judge agreed to give him unpaid work instead of a curfew.
Dwogewski was given a 12-month community order, including 120 hours of unpaid work, which will only begin once the coronavirus lockdown comes to an end and the probation service begins supervising work placements again.
Dwogewski was also ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £90 victim surcharge and was banned from driving for 24 months.