Peter Wachira PCG Australia Education: Director’s drunk disaster
A Dandenong company chief has been revealed as a liquored-up lush who assaulted his partner and drove while hopelessly drunk.
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A boozed-up business boss crashed his car into two parked vehicles and calmly carried on driving his wrecked and mangled Holden back to his house, a court has heard.
Peter Chege Wachira was four times over the limit after knocking back one-and-a-half bottles of wine when he had the big bingle.
The court heard the director of PCG Australia Education also attacked his then partner and destroyed her phone in a series of drunken crimes.
Wachira pleaded guilty at the online Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to unlawful assault, criminal damage, and careless and drink driving.
The Dandenong North migration law and education expert had spent the previous two weeks in custody after being arrested last month.
The court heard Wachira was driving in Dandenong North at 9pm on March 3 last year when he veered his vehicle into parked cars.
A witness had seen the accident and watched as Wachira then drove around the corner to where he lived.
Police were called and attended his house, and he blew .197, losing his licence on the spot.
Wachira also abused his then girlfriend multiple times while intoxicated.
On one occasion he smashed her phone and on another he pushed her onto a bed and held her down.
When arrested he would tell officers he couldn’t remember what he had done due to his excessive drinking.
His defence lawyer said alcohol was the “root cause of his problematic behaviour” and he would benefit from a targeted treatment order.
He said recently up until his remand his client was only “drinking once or twice a week”, which was far less than what he had previously been imbibing.
He said Wachira came from Kenya in 2013, had recently graduated with a university diploma in migration law and had set up an education agency to assist overseas student to come to Australia.
Wachira’s online profile states he will help people make the “appropriate learning pathways and best educational choices”.
Magistrate Tony Burns put Wachira on a 24-month community corrections order with alcohol abuse treatment, 250 hours of unpaid work and men’s behaviour change programs.
He was also disqualified from driving for 19 months, backdated to March last year, and fined $750.
