The former driver of Police Minister Yasmin Catley has been banned from driving for six months and will have to have an interlock device fitted to his car for two years once he gets behind the wheel again.
The punishment was handed down in Penrith Local Court after Trevor Robert Daley was busted high-range drink driving at Bemboka on his way to pick up the boss at Merimbula Airport.
Calls to police reported he had been driving erratically along the Snowy Mountains Highway.
As a result the official opening of the new Bega Police Station the following day was high-jacked by questions about his arrest.
The court was told the man from Penrith was “slumped forward with his head toward the steering wheel” when police found his 4WD with the engine still running on the side of the road.
Police later discovered “numerous opened and empty cans of Tooheys New” in his car.
Daley has also been placed on a Community Corrections Order for nine months.
