A Jersey lawyer who was jailed last week for drinking and driving is set to appear in court next week to appeal against his sentence.
David Steenson (57) was sentenced to seven months in prison for drunkenly crashing his Jaguar into another car and driving off.
An appeal against the sentence will be heard on Tuesday next week.
Steenson appeared in court yesterday to ask to be released on bail until the appeal hearing but the request was refused – with Bailiff Sir Timothy Le Cocq ruling that there were “no exceptional circumstances” that could justify it.
During Steenson’s sentencing last week, the Magistrate’s Court heard that the lawyer had stopped at a friend’s house on his way home from work on 16 May.
The friend had already poured him a glass of wine in the garden.
Having been sober for months since he was convicted for an assault in which alcohol was involved, Steenson accepted the drink.
He got into his “saloon-style” Jaguar, and was that evening was seen driving over the white line in the middle of the road.
Steenson hit another car – with a mother and daughter inside – and claimed that he hadn’t realised that he had hit them, thinking instead he had hit a curb or a wall.
He continued driving for just over a mile with his tyre coming off and his wheel at an angle – leaving traces that the police followed to eventually find him.
The other driver suffered whiplash and the court heard that Steenson had passed on his apology to the victims.
The lawyer was also disqualified from driving for 30 months and will need to sit an extended test before he can drive again.