Windsor court report

Failed to file taxes

The court has fined a Mount Uniacke businessman and his company for failing to file income tax forms for three years.

Terrence Christopher, 56, pleaded guilty on his own behalf in Windsor provincial court Tuesday, Sept. 9, to failing to file a T1 form for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006, contrary to the Income Tax Act. On his company’s behalf – T. Christopher Enterprises, Inc., he pleaded guilty to failing to file T2 forms for 2004, 2005, and 2006, contrary to the Act.

Judge Claudine MacDonald fined Christopher and his company $1,500 plus a $225 victim surcharge for each of the offenses.

Christopher and the company committed the respective offenses in Mount Uniacke Aug. 31, 2007.

Drove with high readings

Scotch village resident Timothy Richard Parker, 30, pleaded guilty Friday, Sept. 5, to driving while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the legal limit.

Judge Alan Tufts fined Parker $850 plus a $127.50 victim surcharge, or 15 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year.

The Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles will ban Parker from driving in the province for at least a year.

Parker committed the offense in Windsor June 15, when police found that he had blood-alcohol readings of 160 and 140 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 mg/100 ml.