Girlfriend leaves Blind Bight drug driver after he was caught while high on ice twice within a month
A Blind Bight boyfriend tested positive for drugs as he was driving his girlfriend to the shops, and she was not happy. And when she found out this was his second time, she was very angry.
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A drugged-up driver who didn’t tell his girlfriend he had twice been caught iced-up behind the wheel ended up losing more than just his licence.
Ben Hamer also lost his partner, and also risks losing his school bus panelbeating job.
The 33-year-old said he would struggle to be able to get to his Pakenham workplace from his Blind Bight home and may end up getting the sack.
He pleaded guilty to failing an oral fluid test at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
The court heard his double life as a drug driver unravelled on November 17 last year after he was pulled over on Camms Rd in Cranbourne for a random police check.
He tested negative for alcohol but proved positive for ice, and it was then discovered he had been also caught drug-driving a month before.
Hamer represented himself in court, saying he had now quit.
“I broke up with my partner because of the drugs,” Hamer said.
“She was with me that day, we went to the milk bar and got pulled over on the way back.
“She left me, I understand why, she wasn’t happy.”
He said his mate had been dropping him off at work but that favour had been “putting him out a bit” and he didn’t know how long the arrangement could remain for.
Magistrate Vicky Prapas said Hamer needed to decide whether he wanted to take drugs or whether he wanted to be allowed to drive.
“You are teetering on the edge of falling into a big hole,” Ms Prapas said.
“If you continue to choose drugs over your family it will become expensive, if you get picked up driving while disqualified you could go to jail.
“You have put yourself in a deepening situation where you could lose it all — because you choose to take drugs.”
Hamer was convicted and fined $600.
He was also disqualified from driving for the mandatory minimum of six months.
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