Justice Steven Chong said the non-compliance with the Criminal
Procedure Code was particularly serious in this case, as the
prosecution had not produced evidence to support the amended
charge.
On June 23, 2008, John Peter Worrall, 60, the vice-president of
oil company Swiber Offshore Construction, was driving home to his
Bayshore condominium in East Coast at 11pm, after meeting
colleagues at Harry's Bar in Far East Shopping Centre.
His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road. He
was later arrested for drink-driving.
After an eight-day trial that ended in August last year, he was
convicted not of drink-driving, but of being unfit to drive. He was
also convicted of not exercising due care and attention while
driving, causing the accident - a charge he faced originally in
addition to the drink-driving one.
He was sentenced to three weeks' jail and fined $6,000, and was
disqualified from driving for four years on the first conviction,
and fined $800 and given a four-month driving ban on the
second.
