Man sentenced to six months in jail for driving offences in Wokingham
He's also been disqualified from driving for three years and seven months.
Last updated 23rd Jun 2021
Grzegorz Drews, of Hornbeam Drive, Earley, has been sentenced for driving offences in the town in 2019.
The 40-year-old was sentenced on Wednesday (16/6) at Reading Magistrates’ Court to six months’ imprisonment and has been disqualified from driving for three years and seven months.
He will also be required to take an extended driving test when the disqualification ends.
It's in relation to the following incidents in 2019:
On 29 June 2019, officers pulled into Denton Road car park, Wokingham when they heard loud music being played. Drews was sat in a car and on seeing the officers he pulled the keys from the ignition and threw them into the foot well. He then ran off. Officers chased him and he was located in the garden of a property in South Drive where he was arrested.
Then on 27 September 2019, officers were patrolling in Barkham Road, Wokingham when a car activated their number plate camera as having no insurance. The car then drove off at speed and was followed by the officers. They found the vehicle abandoned in Rowan Close without the driver. After conduction an area search officers found Drews hiding face down in the mud, in a nearby wooded area and he was arrested.
Drews was charged via postal requisition on 27 December 2019 for the offences in June 2019 and on 12 March 2020 for the offences in September 2019.
He was convicted last Monday (14/6) of two counts of driving whilst disqualified and one count each of being in charge of a vehicle whilst over the specified drug limit, driving whilst over the specified drug limit, driving with no insurance and failing to surrender to court.
Investigating officer, PC Jamie Payne, of the Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit said:
“Despite Drews having been caught in charge of a vehicle whilst over the specified limit of methamphetamine on the first occasion in 2019, he was then caught again driving over the specified limit of amphetamine a few months later. Additionally on both occasions he was driving whilst disqualified and uninsured”.
“He has shown little regard for driving and repeatedly tried to evade officers.
“Driving whilst under the influence of drugs is dangerous and can put the driver and others at great risk.
“Drews will now have time to reflect on his actions whilst in prison.”