A drunk Zimbabwean has been jailed in the UK for breaching lockdown travel ban. Simba Munyoro, pleaded guilty to five offences at O...
A drunk Zimbabwean has been jailed in the UK for breaching lockdown travel ban.
Simba Munyoro, pleaded guilty to five offences at Oxford Magistrates’ Court.
The offences were driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the limit, driving while disqualified, using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance, using a motor vehicle on a road when the load/passengers is likely to cause danger and contravening a requirement as to restriction of movement during emergency period – coronavirus.
Munyoro was seen by police officers driving into a petrol station with an insecure part of a bed on the roof of his van at 1.15am on Saturday (4/4).
When spoken to by officers, Munyoro stated that he was moving the bed for a key worker, claiming an essential need.
He was required to give a specimen of breath and blew a reading above the limit and was subsequently arrested.
Munyoro was also found to be disqualified from driving for an earlier drink driving offence, having no insurance and also having an unrestrained child in the foot-well of the vehicle.
He was sentenced to eight weeks’ imprisonment and banned from driving for a further 15 months, bringing a total disqualification of five years.
Munyoro also had a previous suspended sentence of 12 weeks’ imprisonment activated, for an earlier drink driving offence in December 2019, meaning he must serve that consecutively, resulting in a total of 20 weeks’ imprisonment.
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