SINGAPORE - Already handed a lifetime driving ban in 2023 after three drink driving convictions, a man was again charged with the same offence after allegedly reoffending in 2025.

On July 16, Lee Shin Nan, 49, was handed five charges including one count each of drink driving, and driving a car despite his disqualification.

He was also charged with using a car without the necessary insurance, failing to give his breath sample to a police officer, and driving away in a car without the owner’s consent.

Lee had allegedly driven the car without the unnamed owner’s permission on Sept 10, 2025.

He was purportedly drink driving along Airport Road at around 1am that day when a policeman stopped him.

Lee is accused of failing to give the officer his breath sample.

Court documents did not disclose what happened next, but he was later found to have at least 135 milligrams (mg) of alcohol in 100ml of his blood.

The prescribed limit is 80mg of alcohol in the same amount of blood.

His bail has been set at $30,000, and his bail review will be held on July 17.

Lee was first convicted of drink driving in 2009, fined $2,800 and banned from driving for two years.

In 2012, he was given two weeks’ jail and a $4,000 fine for his second conviction. He was also banned from driving for four years.

For his third drink driving conviction in March 2023, he was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail, fined $10,000, and disqualified from driving for life.

Lee appealed against his lifetime driving ban and Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon dismissed it in Se...