Peter Toby Scutts: Manly Local Court sentences former chef to home detention after third high-range drink-driving conviction
A former chef, who has never held a full driver’s licence, is now a prisoner in his own home after crashing a scooter on Sydney’s northern beaches while more than four times the legal alcohol limit.
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A former chef, who has never held a full driver’s licence, has become a prisoner in his own northern beaches home after committing his third serious drink-driving offence.
Peter Toby Scutts, 34, of Brookvale, was ordered on Thursday to serve eight months in home detention after he was caught more than four times above the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his motor scooter into a car.
Scutts ended up with a fractured hip, as well as his third high-range drink-driving charge, after returning a reading of .205 following the collision at Cromer in September 2023.
Manly Local Court heard Scutts, who was on a learner’s motorcycle licence, had never applied to sit a test for a full licence.
Magistrate Lisa Stapleton was told, during a previous appearance on October 3, that Scutts had been on his “Ls” for 13 years.
When she asked why Scutts had not yet got his licence, he told his solicitor: “Never got round to it.”
Scutts was riding his Kymco scooter along Campbell Ave, Cromer at 12.20am on September 3 last year when he rounded a bend and collided with a Mitsubishi four-wheel drive.
He was thrown from the scooter and suffered a broken right hip, according to a police fact sheet tendered to the court.
The court heard Scutts had issues with alcohol consumption and was seeing a psychiatrist.
Ms Stapleton said that on the day of the most recent offences, Scutts had been drinking in a “reckless and irresponsible way” and that he had been given a “number of chances” by courts in the past.
On October 3, she sentenced him to 16 months in jail, but ordered that he be assessed for his suitability for home detention.
Ms Stapleton ultimately ordered on Thursday that Scutts could serve the term by way of an intensive correction order, supervised by parole authorities.
He must serve half of the order in home detention.
Scutts was also disqualified from driving for two years.
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