Lock bypass backfires

It is possible Richard Chand believed he had come up with the perfect plan when he got his 10-year-old son to blow into the alcohol interlock device fitted to his car, so he could get it started. It was a scheme that backfired for the recidivist drink-driver when – over the legal drink-driving limit – he crashed his car into an embankment on the outskirts of Hamilton, injuring them both. The incident on the evening of November 21, 2020, led to Richard Ronil Chand, 37, being charged with illtreatment of a child under 18; causing injury while driving with an excess blood alcohol level; driving contrary to an alcohol interlock licence; and tampering with an alcohol interlock device. The tampering, as the police summary of facts on Chand’s case reveals, came in the form of homemade modifications to the device.