The former mayor and deputy mayor of Narromine Shire Council was sentenced in Orange Local Court on Monday for high-range drink-driving.
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William Paul McAnally, also known as Bill, 61, of John Street, Trangie, appeared remotely in court after he was caught drink-driving in Orange last month.
McAnally told police he had gone out for dinner with his wife on August 9 and when he was stopped for a random breath test said, "I've probably been drinking too much to be driving".
According to police, he was unsteady, his speech was slurred and his eyes appeared to be glazed.
McAnally attracted police attention when they saw him driving slowly around the the roundabout at the intersection of Anson Street and Byng Street at 12.15am.
He was stopped in Anson Street and after giving a positive reading he was arrested and taken to Orange Police Station for further analysis where he returned a high-range reading of 0.167.
He said he had drunk an unknown number of schooners of beer and glasses of red wine between 3.30pm and midnight.
Solicitor John Walford said McAnally made a mistake by attempting to drive home after taking his wife out for dinner in Orange.
He said McAnally did not have other criminal matters on his record other than this and a high-range drink-driving charge from 1983.
Mr Walford said McAnally served on the Narromine Shire Council for 12 years, including as mayor and deputy mayor, and he was also an upstanding member of the Trangie Rural Fire Service.
He said McAnally's driver's licence was suspended since the date of the offence.
Magistrate David Day took the driving suspension into account when he convicted McAnally, disqualified him from driving for five months, fined him $880 and ordered him to have an interlock device fitted to his car for 24 months.
Mr Day said McAnally's references spoke highly of him and McAnally has engaged with numerous "prosocial activities".