 Jail, fine for letting hubby drive
Reason: He was under 12-year driving ban
SHE thought they could reach Johor faster if her husband drove.
So Zaiton Mohd Zaini, 37, let her husband take the wheel.
But that proved costly. Both were jailed and disqualified from driving after a traffic policeman stopped their car on 26Mar 2005 for speeding.
They were driving to Johor after learning that Zaiton's father was involved in an accident.
TRAFFIC OFFENCE
At some point during the journey, Azeman Yahaya asked Zaiton, an office administrator, to let him drive. Zaiton agreed, even though he had been banned from driving for 12years in June2002 for a traffic offence.
In doing so, she broke the law - by allowing someone to drive without valid insurance, since the policy would not have covered her husband.
Their car was stopped along Turf Club Avenue. Azeman was arrested when he could not produce a driving licence.
He pleaded guilty to these offences and was jailed four months for driving under disqualification. For driving without insurance, he was jailed another two months.
He will also be disqualified from driving for 14years after he is released from prison.
Zaiton was jailed two weeks and fined $1,000 for allowing her husband to drive. She was also banned from driving for 14years.
In mitigation, her lawyer said she saw DrYCLim, a consultant psychiatrist with Raffles Hospital, as she was distressed by the incident.
Dr Lim submitted a report to the court stating that Zaiton was a 'submissive wife' who could not 'resist (her husband) without provoking violence on his part'.
But District Judge Terence Chua dismissed Zaiton's plea.
He said: 'I felt that it was expedient to prevent a further occurrence of such an offence by taking steps to ensure that Zaiton herself would not be in a position to ferry Azeman around during his period of qualification, and thus place herself in the situation of having to give in to him again.'
Zaiton has appealed against the sentence.
According to the police, 995 summonses were given out last year to people who drove without driving licences.
The figure was 811 in 2005 and 934 in 2004. | 
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