Brent Mullavey: Moruya man pleads guilty to high range drink driving, furiously driving at speed

A man’s belligerence with police after drunkenly mounting a footpath in a wild short lived drink drive on the NSW south coast has been exposed by a court. Here’s what he angrily told police.

Brent Mullavey outside Batemans Bay Local Court.

A drunk driver’s belligerence with police after mounting a footpath, burning out and scraping hand railing with his car has been exposed in a court.

Brent Mullavey, 32, mounted the Nelligen Bridge footpath during a wild short lived drink drive on the evening of October 29, according to documents tendered to the Batemans Bay Local Court.

The damaging drive kicked off when the Moruya man got behind the wheel after downing two Great Northern schooners and two Jagermeister cans.

Mullavey was driving a Toyota Yaris on the Tuesday evening when a pedestrian saw him mount the footpath of the Nelligen Bridge, scraping the hand railing for sometime, before going back onto the road, burning out and continuing to drive toward Batemans Bay.

Court documents state the witness contacted police, who waited on the Princes Highway between Batemans Bay and Nelligen to catch the reckless drunk driver.

Brent Mullavey pleaded guilty in the Batemans Bay Local Court.

Shortly after, Mullavey drove toward the police, who gave chase and pulled him over.

Documents state police found the drunk Mullavey to be belligerent and increasingly antagonistic as they came to the window.

He demanded the officers turn off their body cameras, saying he would not speak until they did.

“You will have to turn that shit off, or I’m not talking,” agreed facts state he said.

Mullavey then told police was exempt from a breath test, as he was no longer driving, stating “I was, but now I have stopped and you can’t test me”.

The officers however informed the intoxicated Mullavey this was not the case, before subjecting him to a breath test.

Brent Mullavey blew 0.196.

After multiple failed attempts, the test returned a positive reading of .196 – nearly four times the legal limit.

Mullavey was arrested and taken to the Batemans Bay Police Station, where he was placed in handcuffs due to his increasing anger.

At the police station, the 32-year-old admitted to drinking multiple alcoholic beverages before getting behind the wheel.

Court documents state his driving caused scrapes to the side of his vehicle, as well as marks to the hand railing on the Nelligan Bridge.

Mullavey’s licence was suspended and he was charged with high range drink driving and drive furiously at speed.

The Moruya man pleaded guilty to the charges when he faced Batemans Bay Local Court on Monday, with his lawyer Wayne Boom requesting the case be adjourned for a sentencing assessment report to be completed.

Magistrate Paul Lyon did not oppose the request while slamming the offending “extremely serious”.

Mullavey will return to the Batemans Bay Local Court for sentencing on January 20.

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