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| 'Habitual Offender' Gets Detention |
| By dailyexaminer.com.au |
| Published: 06/23/2009 |
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'Habitual Offender' Gets Detention Tim Howard A SOUTH Grafton man the courts once branded as a habitual offender has been given six months periodic detention in lieu of fulltime jail to assist in his rehabilitation. Yesterday Warren Patrick Elliott, 30, of Ryan Street, was convicted of driving while disqualified. He was also disqualified from driving for two years, this period of disqualification to start in 2012, when his current period without a licence expires. The court heard Elliott had been a regular cannabis user and many of his offences had occurred in that period. However, in the past four years he has been in a relationship and has given up using cannabis and taken part in the Merit Program as part of his rehabilitation. Elliott's solicitor, John Hennessy, said his client had made a lot of progress in the past few years and a jail sentence would be a regression for him. “He has made every effort over the last four years and there is only one matter on his record in that time,” Mr Hennessy said. Magistrate Kim Pogson said Elliott's record showed him as a man who showed little regard for court orders. He said that the Merit Program report painted a good picture of his efforts to get his life back on track and agreed that periodic detention would not hinder that.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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