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Drunk driver loses licence

A Sudbury man with four previous drunk driving convictions who was caught drunk behind the wheel and driving while under suspension twice in two months last summer was sentenced to eight months in jail Wednesday.
A Sudbury man with four previous drunk driving convictions who was caught drunk behind the wheel and driving while under suspension twice in two months last summer was sentenced to eight months in jail Wednesday.

Justice William Fitzgerald also suspended the driver?s license of Shane Lynds for the rest of his life.
Lynds, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of impaired driving after being pulled over at a police spotcheck last May 28 and then being pulled over by police again on July 17.

In both cases, Lynds failed a roadside testing procedure and both times breathalyser tests indicated he had just over the legal limit of alcohol allowed in Canada to drive.

Court heard Lynds had his driver?s licence suspended for three years in February of 2001 after being convicted for the fourth time of drunk driving and driving while disqualified.

Fitzgerald told the accused he had no choice but to agree to a joint submission presented by defence counsel Louis Sola and assistant Crown attorney Andrew Slater to impose an eight-month jail sentence and lifetime license suspension.

Sola told the court his client has had problems with alcohol for many years and realizes there?s a serious price to pay after being convicted of drunk driving for the fifth and sixth time.

It?s his hope Lynds will access some in-house treatment programs while incarcerated to attempt to give up alcohol once he?s released.