Gold Coast Titans player Tom Weaver banned from driving for six months after high-range drink-driving guilty plea

A Gold Coast Titans young gun who is seen as the club’s next playmaking talent has pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving after being busted by police when he was stopped at green traffic lights with his hazard lights on.

Gold Coast Titans young gun Tom Weaver has been banned from the road for six months and fined $900 after pleading guilty to high-range drink driving.

Weaver, 19, a product of the famed Palm Beach-Currumbin High rugby league nursery, joined the Titans this season and is seen as the club’s next playmaking talent.

But his career has suffered an early setback after he pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday to driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .171 per cent.

The court heard that as a P-plater, he was meant to have no alcohol in his system.

Weaver was busted by police about 2.40am on Elkhorn Ave in Surfers Paradise on March 6 after they noticed he was stopped at green traffic lights with his hazard lights on.

Police observed he had bloodshot eyes and appeared to be under the influence which was confirmed by his reading, the court was told.

Tom Weaver leaves Southport Court with family after pleading guilty to drink-driving.

Weaver’s lawyer Russell Tannock told the court that his client had stalled at the intersection and there was no suggestion of any crash.

The lawyer said Weaver had co-operated with police, made full admissions and completed a traffic offenders course.

He said Weaver was a professional rugby league player in his first year with the Titans.

Weaver needed to drive to get to games, training and other club commitments and the loss of his licence would be ‘quite an imposition on him’, the lawyer said.

Magistrate Mark Howden acknowledged Weaver had already been off the road for three weeks but said he could not backdate the disqualification period.

He disqualified Weaver from driving for six months and convicted and fined him $900.

Weaver did not comment to media outside court.

Originally published as Gold Coast Titans player Tom Weaver banned from driving for six months after high-range drink-driving guilty plea