A man has been ordered to serve 200 hours of community service and banned from driving for 18 months over a drunken pursuit in Maitland last year.
The solicitor for James Dunstan, a 24-year-old Papua New Guinea national, told Maitland Local Court on Thursday that her client attempted to flee police because of "fear of physical punishment" - his experience of law enforcement officers in his home country was that they used violence.
