A P.E.I. woman who was caught driving less than a month after she was banned from doing so was sentenced recently to 30 days in jail.
Susan Ann Rose, 54, appeared before Chief Judge Nancy Orr in provincial court in Charlottetown where she pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.
The court heard that on Nov. 3 an RCMP officer on patrol recognized Rose as she drove on Route 2 in Marshfield in a vehicle with a rejection sticker on it.
Rose told the court she knows it was wrong, but she was driving into town to file for EI.
“I was desperate because I had no other way of getting there,” she said.
Along with the jail time, which Rose will serve on weekends, she is banned from driving for one year and must pay a $100 victim surcharge.
