A court has heard a Creswick man who lacked motivation and enjoyed sleeping in was sceptical about his own ability to comply with another community corrections order. The man told the court he would instead prefer to go to jail.
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Jason Crawford was in the Ballarat Magistrates Court on a breach of a previous CCO and a number of other charges including theft from a shop and unlicensed driving.
Pleading guilty to the charges, the court heard the Creswick man used his child’s pram to hide a bottle of bourbon, valued at $58, he stole from a local grocers in April.
Three weeks later Crawford, who has never held a licence, was caught driving an unregistered car with no plates outside his Creswick property.
He was sentenced to a month in jail over the theft and unlicensed driving, and fined $300 for driving an unregistered vehicle. He was also imprisoned for two months, with one month to be served concurrently, over the breach.
