Prinnie
Stevens leaving Downing Centre Local Court / Pic: Nic Gibson Source:
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph reports
Former The Voice singer and a contestant in this year's Celebrity Apprentice, Prinnie Stevens, had her day in court at the Downing Centre Local Court yesterday.
In a leather skirt, with business-like hairdo and takeaway coffee handy,
Stevens (full name Princess Malia Stevens) faced the music after being caught
behind the wheel of her unregistered VW Bora, with a suspended licence, late
last year.
The Daily Telegraph's court reporter Peter Bodkin
reports Stevens was driving alone through Potts Point's busy bar and restaurant
strip on a Saturday night late last year when police pulled her over.
She was only able to produce a bank keycard for identification,
according to court documents.
Police said checks revealed she had been banned from driving until
mid-2013 for previous on-road indiscretions and had already been warned about
her suspension when she was stopped earlier on the same day, not far from her
apartment at Narrabeen, on the northern beaches.
Police documents said Stevens told them she had contacted the State Debt
Recovery Office to clear up her debts and that she was told over the phone
everything had been fixed.
Last month, Stevens pleaded guilty to driving an unregistered car on a
suspended licence, but yesterday her lawyer asked for the case to be postponed
so she could get in-car police video of the incident.
Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson said he couldn't see how the video had
"any relevance whatsoever", unless Stevens wanted to argue she wasn't
the one driving.
"But if she's got deep pockets and she is happy to write cheques
for lawyers, far be it for me to stop her," he said.
Stevens, who dipped out of The Voice during the finals last year, is due
to return to court for sentencing later this month.
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