Whanganui MP and Deputy Speaker Chester Borrows at the Whanganui District Court. Photo / Wanganui Chronicle.
Whanganui National MP Chester Borrows will face a trial over a charge of careless use of a motor vehicle causing injury.
His application to have the charge dismissed was turned down today by District Court judge Jim Large.
The charge relates to an alleged incident in March when Borrows and
cabinet minister Paula Bennett who, had been speaking at a breakfast function, were driving away from the venue.
The meeting had attracted a group of protestors against the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Borrows, who is also Parliament's deputy Speaker, had pleaded not guilty.
