tradie Oscar Lindsay Dutton, 22, pleads guilty to high-range drink driving

After a bourbon-fuelled argument with his girlfriend, this Logan tradie drove to a friend’s house, but the decision would ruin a massive professional milestone for him.

A LOGAN tradie has been fined $1050 and lost his licence for six months after being busted high-range drink driving.

Today, the same day he finally completed his roofing apprenticeship, Regents Park tradie Oscar Lindsay Dutton, 22, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court to high-range drink-driving and driving without due care and attention.

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Dutton’s Nissan Patrol was detected by police just before 2am last month on May 17 when he sped onto Muchow Rd at Waterford West from Chambers Flat Rd creating an “audible squeal”.

Regents Park roofer Oscar Lindsay Dutton, 22, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court today to high-range drink driving and driving without due care and attention. Picture: Facebook

Police began tracking the vehicle and witnessed it travelling through a roundabout at speed, it’s wheels travelling over the cement gutter and pushing debris onto the road, leading to the charge of driving without due care and attention.

When he was arrested, the court heard, Dutton smelt of liquor and told police he had consumed “four or five” schooner-sized glasses of bourbon and coke.

He returned a blood alcohol reading just north of the high-range threshold of 0.15 per cent.

Today, the court heard that Dutton had been drinking with his partner in the home they shared when an argument broke out between the pair.

Defence lawyer Matthew Buchanan said his client made the “foolish” decision to leave the home to stay at a friend’s house at Marsden.

He said his client, who has never been before a court, found the experience “very upsetting”.

Convictions were recorded.