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Rob Boyle, of Rob’s British Butchery, has baked up his own version of a World Cup oracle. On 5 July, the flamboyant Dandenong foodie dished up a three-kilogram pork pie depicting a soaring goal and declaring the quarter-final score ‘England 3, Sweden 1’. Time will tell if he is telling a ‘pork pie’ so to speak - with the two sides due to face off at midnight on 8 July. Let’s hope for Mr Boyle’s sake, we don’t get a repeat of the famous British tabloid headline: Swedes 2, Turnips 1. His pies have proven prophetic in the past - correctly predicting Manchester United’s winning scoreline against Liverpool 20 years ago. Mr Boyle is confident that England, after so many false dawns, might actually win the World Cup. “I think we’ve got as good a chance as any.”
Road to disaster A small bag of cannabis was seized from his car. At those levels, Ken was deemed incapable of properly controlling a vehicle, police told the court. Ken told a police interview that he’d drank up to eight mixed vodka drinks that afternoon and night, as well as smoking a joint. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious injury, driving under the influence and possessing cannabis. A defence lawyer told the Dandenong hearing on 2 July that Ken stopped at the intersection and thought “there must be some fault with the road-light system”. “He took off and hit the motorcycle.” Just a week before the hearing, Ken had been discharged as a hospital psychiatric pa-
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tient, the lawyer said. Ken had a long history of psychiatric problems. He’d been admitted to hospital at least six times since arriving from New Zealand 14 years ago, the lawyer told the court. Magistrate Pauline Spencer said it was a difficult case given the serious offences. She ordered a Forensicare report to assess Ken’s mental health issues for sentencing, as well as whether he had been prescribed the drugs at the time of the crash. She also requested whether Ken had been advised on the dangers of mixing alcohol with the medicine. Ken faced a minimum driving disqualification of two years, which would run from 2 July. He will be sentenced at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 10 October.
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It started out as a boozy celebration of Seng Ken’s new job. The 35-year-old downed mixed vodkas with friends at Sin City strip club in Dandenong and with several medications in his system, he made the fateful decision to drive just before 1am on Saturday 19 November 2016. It was a course of action that seriously wounded another road user. It landed Ken in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court nearly two years later. Ken drove into the ‘No Entry - Buses Excepted’ area of Langhorne Street, egged on by a passenger in the back seat. He waited at the Lonsdale Street T-intersection for the bus traffic lights to turn green.
Running out of patience, he looked both ways, turning left slowly through a red ’B’ light. And he then heard a crash, and saw a motorcyclist flying through the air. Just beforehand, police on patrol saw the motorbike with its headlamp on. It was travelling at about 70-80 km/h in the 60km/h zone, weaving as if to warm up tyres, they say. Police rendered first aid to the rider, who has since remembered nothing of the crash. He spent up to 14 weeks in hospital, and endured two emergency surgeries. His toes, spine and femur were broken, his tibia crushed with damage to his foot, hip, sciatic nerve and knee. Ken’s blood-alcohol reading was 0.094. Forensic scientists also detected two types of anti-depressants and two anti-psychotic drugs.
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