Property agent gets jail, driving ban for drink driving
THE older brother of a man jailed last week for taking the rap for drink driving was jailed and fined a total of $4,000 on Thursday for drink driving and giving false information to the police.
Property agent Lee Wee Li, 30, will also be banned from driving for two years after his release from his one-week imprisonment.
His brother, Wee Sern, unemployed, has since served his week-long sentence and paid a $1,000 fine for lying to the police.
Wee Li admitted to drink driving along Bedok Road past midnight on May 29 last year. His alcoholic breath was twice over the legal limit.
He also admitted to lying to Staff Sergeant Sabarudin at Traffic Police Station that day that he was not the driver of the car that was involved in a minor road traffic accident along Bedok Road to avoid a drink driving charge.
Two other charges were taken into consideration.
The court heard that Wee Li failed the breathalyser test at the scene of the accident at about 12.30am.
Wee Li smelt strongly of alcohol and was arrested for drink driving.
However at 8am while at the station, he gave a police statement claiming he was not the driver of the car, but Wee Sern who was the front seat passenger.
Pleading for leniency, Mr S. Radakrishnan said the Nanyang Technological University graduate was a good and dependable person.
While in the army, he was the best trainee in his course in 1996.
In 2005/2006, he was awarded an incentive scheme from the Traffic Police for having a clean driving record for the past three years.
Counsel said the two brothers were extremely close, very protective of one another and had always been each other's pillar of support since young.
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