A man caught driving with more than five times the legal alcohol limit in his system then tried to destroy the evidence of his crime.
William Erewiti Stead Maxwell, 35, was stopped just after 8pm for a compulsory breath test on March 3 while he was driving in Upper Hutt.
He blew 1245mcg on the evidential breath test - five times the legal limit of 250mcg.
He then asked for a blood sample to be taken instead, which revealed him to have 261mg of alcohol in his system. The legal limit is 50mg.
"When the blood taking process was completed by the nurse specialist and the blood tubes were sealed in a blood specimen kit box, the defendant reached over, grabbed the kit box from the table, and dropped it on the floor and jumped on it," the summary of facts said.
