He also admitted breaking the suspended sentence by taking a car from a driveway in Dawlish, in February, and writing it off on the A379 to Teignmouth.
In the end, the five-year sentence was harsher than the three-year suspended sentence newspapers had predicted.
Judge Shaw said that the case did pass the custody threshold, but the sentence would be suspended for a year.
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The judge rejected calls for a suspended sentence saying that while Bather drove the wrong way for only one-tenth of a mile (0.16 km), it was very dangerous.
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The sentence was suspended last month, but her fate looks dicey.
In April, Jeremy Jaynes, considered among the world's top-ten spammers, got a nine-year prison sentence in America for using false e-mail addresses and aliases to send mass e-mails (though the sentence was suspended pending an appeal).
He spent four months in custody before being convicted over the attack and given a suspended sentence.
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He had been told that if the money was paid into court then the jail sentence would be suspended.
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For instance, in April, a Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison, though the sentence has been suspended pending an appeal.
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The prosecutors were calling for a ten-month suspended prison sentence for Mr Trichet but, of course, the main penalty he would have suffered would be to forfeit his job at the ECB.
One was given a community order and the other a 16-week suspended sentence at Merthyr Crown Court.
In addition, a Continental mechanic, John Taylor, was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence over the crash.
The next year she would be convicted on terror charges for running the site and handed a suspended prison sentence.
In July Barton received a four-month suspended prison sentence for the assault in May 2007, when the pair were team-mates at Manchester City.
The Noons were given a six-month sentence suspended for two years and ordered to serve 50 hours of unpaid work, while the Lynchs were given a two year community order, two-year supervision order and 40 hours of unpaid work.
The judge on Monday gave Mr. Say a 10-month jail sentence but suspended it by five years, meaning the pianist won't be jailed if he doesn't repeat the offense within that period.
His lawyers appeal against the fine and suspended one-year jail sentence.
On the day Mr Williamson was given a suspended prison sentence, Mrs Machin wrote him a letter of support, then hugged him outside court.
The sentence was later reduced to 12 months and suspended by the Court of Appeal.
Appeal judges, who heard Nightingale had forgotten he had the gun, cut his sentence to 12 months and suspended it.
Daniele Canarelli was given a suspended prison sentence of one year, in the first case of its kind in France.
She was given a four month suspended sentence last year after Colchester Borough Council brought the action against the family.
Prosecuting Sian Vaughan said Brooks was already the subject of a curfew order, having breached a previous suspended sentence for another matter.
One pro-cannabis campaigner, who had the bright idea of sending a joint to every member of the National Assembly, was recently given a prison sentence (admittedly suspended).
Mrs Pryke's sentence was suspended so that she could take care of the couple's three sons.
Bennett, who is behind the Madeleine Foundation, was given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.
Jonathan Gold, 48, of Coleshill, who pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the safety of a non-employee, was given a suspended seven-month sentence.
Last week, six of the 11 care workers who admitted the neglect or abuse of patients were jailed, and five more given a suspended sentence.
One social worker received a jail sentence of one year with six months suspended for failing to report the sexual abuse on some of the youngsters.
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