Glenn Morgan, CEO of Deutsche Bank Australia, convicted of drink driving after downing five white wines
One of the country’s leading bank bosses was charged with drink-driving after downing five white wines with his Friday night dinner. See what happened in court.
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A leading Australian bank boss has been convicted of drink-driving after getting behind the wheel soon after he downed his fifth white wine with his Friday night dinner.
Glenn Morgan, the CEO of Deutsche Bank Australia, was stopped for a random breath test as he drove his BMW through North Sydney.
He blew 0.095.
Morgan 53, of Mosman, pleaded guilty in Manly Local Court on Thursday to one count of driving with the middle-range prescribed concentration of alcohol in his blood.
The court heard that the prominent banker was “extremely embarrassed” about the charge and had “showed genuine remorse for his mistake”.
He also immediately told Deutsche Bank Australia, which he has led since July 2021, about his drink-drive arrest, the court was told.
In a written reference tendered to court, the bank’s head of human resources, Jules Nickson Pole, wrote that the offence was “extremely out of character for Glenn”. The reference confirmed he is CEO of Deutsche Bank Australia.
“He is extremely embarrassed about the incident,” Ms Nickson Pole wrote. “But immediately owned up and showed genuine remorse about his mistake.
“I cannot imagine Glenn would be at risk of reoffending and he knows that he has the full support of the Deutsche Bank team.”
Morgan’s lawyer Benjamin Goh said that around the time of the offence, his client had been under a large amount of stress surrounding his separation from his wife.
Mr Goh said aside from the drink drive charge “he is a person whose lived an unblemished life”.
In a facts sheet tendered to court police stated that he was driving his BMW on Clark Rd, North Sydney at 9.15pm on Friday, May 19, when he made a left hand turn into Margaret St, prior to a stationery RBT site.
His car was stopped by police waiting in Margaret St and he was walked by officers to the RBT bus for a breath test.
Morgan told police, according to the facts sheet, that he had five standard glasses of white wine with Spanish food since 6pm.
Magistrate Robyn Denes told Morgan that he had an exemplary driving record, but he had made a “very poor decision” to drive that night, which could have ended with him, or other roads users, seriously injured.
“Who knows what will happen around the corner,” Ms Denes said.
Morgan was disqualified from driving for three months and fined $500.
He has appealed the severity of the penalty. The appeal is listed in the Downing Centre District Court on November 23.
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