Jacob Fuller: NSW Police Commissioner’s son sentenced for DUI
The son of NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has been handed down his punishment for drink driving and driving unlicensed.
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The son of NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has been banned from the roads for drink driving and driving unlicensed.
Jacob James Fuller, 20, appeared at Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday for sentencing, after blowing 0.031 during the early hours of September 8 at Waterfall.
The low reading was an offence due to the zero alcohol limit on Fuller’s P-plater licence.
Magistrate Michael Allen called the drink-driving offence “unremarkable”.
Fuller sat in court with his mother and stepfather, as his lawyer Sam Macedone said he’s “had to bear all the headlines (of being the commissioner’s son)” even though most of his friends would consider his stepdad his father figure.
When officers checked Fuller’s provisional licence they also discovered it had a demerit points suspension.
Magistrate Allen handed him a four months suspended licence for each charge, to run concurrently starting from today.
He was also ordered to pay a $440 fine for the drink-driving charge and a $880 fine for the driving while suspended charge.
He had previously pleaded guilty to a special-range drink driving and drive on road while licence suspended.
The court heard he attended a function in Wollongong where he had some alcohol, and later finished the day at Northies in Cronulla, where he didn’t drink.
After running out of money, he decided to drive home, feeling anxious.
Fuller was driving a Subaru BRZ and stopped short of a roadside breath testing station on the Princes Highway at Waterfall just before 3am on September 8 before undergoing a breath test.
In his sentencing, Magistrate Allen said he took into consideration Fuller’s early plea of guilty, a number of references which referred to Fuller as a hardworking bloke, the fact that he needed his license for work, and his anxiety, which he wasn’t taking the prescribed medication for at the time of his charges.
Fuller hopes to start an apprenticeship as a carpenter shortly, the court heard.
“The plea of guilty as you’ve entered it the face of widespread publicity, (you’re a) young man willing to accept responsibility,” Magistrate Allen said.
“You’re a young man that has had to put up with more than most men at this stage of your life,” Magistrate Allen said, referring to the fact he looked after his sick sister and his stepfather who was suffering from cancer.
His defence applied for a non-publication order for his address which was granted, taking into consideration his father’s high profile.
A blood alcohol reading of 0.031 is roughly equivalent to one standard beer.
The legal limit for a driver on a full licence is 0.05 but zero for a P-plater.
Fuller was one of 260 drivers caught drink driving during Operation Nabbed, which was a road safety blitz across Sydney during that particular weekend.