Drink driver gets longer jail term for lying to cops
Published on Aug 19, 2011
By Khushwant Singh
A car salesman, who was convicted of drink-driving in 2005, tried to worm himself out of a second conviction four years later, by claiming someone else was driving his car.
Tan Boon Hee only dug himself deeper into trouble. In a district court on Friday, the 35-year-old pleaded guilty to drink-driving and was fined $3,000 and jailed two weeks.
For making false statements to the police, he was sentenced to an additional month in jail. Tan was also ordered to be disqualified from driving all vehicles for four years.
He was also fined $800 for driving carelessly that day and colliding into a taxi, and fined another $1,500 for not having a driving licence.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
