Corrine Wimetal: Work shirker hit with more fines for dodgy driving
A Pearcedale mum thought converting her suspended driving fines into unpaid work would be make her life easy. She was wrong.
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A dodgy driver’s work shirking scheme to get out of doing community hours has failed with the motoring menace hit with more fines.
Corrine Wimetal was repeatedly caught driving while suspended after racking up too many demerit points due to her serial speeding, and given fines.
The Pearcedale 28-year-old single mum didn’t want to pay so asked the court to substitute her litany of infringements for unpaid work.
But instead of knuckling down she didn’t bother doing the community hours, citing a workplace shoulder injury and knee pain and anxiety from a schoolyard assault.
She pleaded guilty to four corrections order breaches at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
The court heard Wimetal has a terrible history dating back to 2015, mainly for driving while suspended offending.
After converting her large fines to community work she hardly did any hours and was breached multiple times.
Her defence lawyer told the court Wimetal was a bartender before she suffered a shoulder injury which restricted her ability to do the unpaid work.
She said last year she was assaulted at a school and hurt her knee.
She also suffers anxiety and depression from the attack and doesn’t work anymore.
She said Wimetal now has a partner, is a full-time mother to her six-year-old boy and is on government benefits.
Magistrate Charles Tan said people had to realise there was a price to pay for breaking the law.
“I’m not unsympathetic, I understand life was not easy for you as a single mother,” Mr Tan said.
“But I’ve got to balance that with you doing the wrong thing, you have got to be accountable for your driving.
“And I have word of warning; you have a very unenviable history of driving while suspended, if it happens again, you will be jeopardising your liberty.”
He fined Wimetal a total of $2900, telling her she could apply to Fines Victoria for an instalment plan.
