Brady Michael Holmes: Electrician busted drink-driving after roadside wee on Cavill Avenue
An electrician was busted driving nearly three times over the legal blood-alcohol limit after council CCTV cameras captured him urinating on the roadway at Surfers Paradise, a court has heard.
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An electrician was busted driving nearly three times over the legal blood-alcohol limit after council CCTV cameras captured him urinating on the roadway at Surfers Paradise, a court has heard.
Mount Warren Park man Brady Michael Holmes, 27, appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Wednesday, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of mid-range drink driving.
The court heard the offence occurred at Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise on February 20.
At about 2am, City of Gold Coast security cameras caught Holmes pulling up his vehicle and positioning himself behind an open door before urinating on the roadway.
Police officers were dispatched to the scene and they took up with the defendant, who admitted to recent alcohol consumption.
A breath test revealed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.141 per cent – almost three times the legal limit, and just shy of the level at which he would have been charged with driving under the influence of liquor (i.e. high-range).
His licence was instantly suspended pending the outcome of his charge.
The court was told Holmes, an electrician who specialises in underground mine electrical systems, did not come to the court with clean hands.
In 2022, a New South Wales court ordered him to install an interlock device on his vehicle, although the offence that led to the imposition of this condition was not placed on the record.
Holmes’ defence lawyer told the court her client knew he had made a “terrible lapse of judgment”.
She noted her client was intercepted not because of his unsafe manner of driving but rather the “unsavoury behaviour” of public urination.
Holmes was fined $750 and disqualified from driving for three months, taking into account the two months he had already been off the roads.
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