January 23, 2014
A 35-year-old Wondai man ran out of chances when he pleaded guilty in Kingaroy Magistrates Court today to a string of charges.
Leslie Patrick Bond had been serving an intensive correction order – a prison termed served in the community – when he committed the latest offences.
Appearing via videolink from Maryborough Correctional Centre, Bond admitted driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle with the wrong number plates, possessing cannabis and breaching bail conditions.
Kingaroy Probation and Parole Reporting Officer Lauren Mangan told the court that by committing the latest offences, Bond had contravened an intensive correction order imposed on June 5 last year in Murgon Magistrates Court.
She said he had also failed a urinalysis test on October 17, two days after police found 0.27g of cannabis in a vehicle he was driving.
He had also failed to report to Corrective Services staff on 14 occasions and had only completed a total of 6.5 hours community service when he was supposed to be doing 12 hours a week.
Magistrate Mark Bucknall said Bond was foolish if he thought the court would believe his claim that he had been clean of drugs for eight months and only resumed using cannabis after he was charged by police.
Solicitor Mark Werner, for Bond, said his client had faced difficulties completing his community service obligations because he was caring for three children.
However, Mr Bucknall responded that Bond had consented to the ICO and knew what it involved. He said children could not be put forward as a “shield against going to prison”.
“You were told in no uncertain terms about the effects of breaching (the ICO). I don’t know what clearer and plainer language I could have used about complying with the intensive correction order,” Mr Bucknall said.
“I place on the record that I clearly warned you … (prison) would be the outcome. True to my word, that will be the outcome.”
Bond was fined $450 for the traffic offences and ordered to serve a total of four months jail on the other charges, cumulative to the balance of the term of his ICO.
Mr Bucknall fixed a parole release date of June 10.
