A Sicamous senior will be serving four-and-a-half years in jail for his twentieth impaired driving offence.
On Sept. 26, just days after celebrating his 64th birthday, Moris Dizenbachs pled guilty in the Salmon Arm Law Courts to one charge of operating a motor vehicle while impaired.
Salmon Arm Crown Counsel Greg Koturbash says the defence had asked for three years while the Crown pressed for the maximum sentence of five years.
“(The judge) thought it warranted the upper end but gave him some credit for pleading guilty,” said Koturbash.
Koturbash says Dizenbachs has a number of convictions unrelated to the 20 alcohol-related driving offences, which date back to 1967 in Vancouver.
Koturbash noted that the judge described the case as the worst she’d seen, and that lawyers had difficulty finding sentencing precedents with that number of impaired convictions.
“Fortunately he has not killed someone,” said Koturbash.