Ex-Silverchair Singer Daniel Johns Handed Intensive Corrections Order After DUI Smash
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- 06 Jul 2022
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Daniel Johns, the former frontman of rock trio Silverchair, has been handed a 10-month intensive corrections order to be served in the community following a DUI incident.
With the sentence, handed down Wednesday, singer avoids a stint in jail though he has been stripped of his driver’s license for seven months and, after that time, must fit an alcohol-reading interlock device to his car for 24 months.
Daniel Johns
The sentence relates to a high-range drink driving in March, which saw Johns’ vehicle involved in a head-on crash on the Highway, north of hometown.
No one died. The driver and passenger in the other vehicle, a man and a woman in their 50s, were treated at the scene.
When police arrived, Johns, aged 43, was found to have three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system.
Following the crash, Johns entered rehabilitation of his own will for a month. The court was told he had not consumed alcohol since.
Defense lawyer Bryan Wrench told Raymond Terrace Court House that his client had suffered from complex mental health issues from his time as a child star with Silverchair.
“He was a very successful musician. He was 14 when that came to him in an unwanted fashion and that came with attacks and vitriol,” Wrench told the court..
“People defaced and graffitied his mother’s fence with homophobic slurs,” he continued. Also, Johns was “pursued by a weird stalker, and there was a defamation case after he was accused of going to a brothel, which was totally untrue.” Read More...
