A Young man was convicted and sentenced in Young Local Court last week for driving while his licence was cancelled.
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Shane Anthony Parsons, 43, of Young was sentenced to a 12 month CCO and disqualified from driving for six months by Magistrate Michael O'Brien.
According to the police facts submitted to the court Parsons was driving on Templemore Street, Young at about 10am on January 2 when police pulled his vehicle over for a random breath test and for not having any registration plates.
When police asked him to produce his licence he told them he didn't have one. Police checks revealed his licence had been cancelled since October 2019 and the car had been unregistered since July 2015.
In Young Local Court Parsons represented himself and entered a plea of guilty to using an unregistered motor vehicle, using an uninsured motor vehicle (both of which he was convicted and dealt with by way of 10A) and driving while licence cancelled for the second or subsequent time.
"The offences happened while you were on parole Mr Parsons?" Magistrate O'Brien asked.
"Yes," he replied.
"You served a term of imprisonment for driving while disqualified and you say you bought this vehicle? Every time you do this you put off getting your licence back," Magistrate O'Brien said. "Don't get a car until you get your licence back.
"When you drive on the roadway you have to have a licence, you have to have permission from the government to drive.
"You cannot give yourself a licence it makes a mockery of the system that denied you your driving priviliges.
"If you're going to drive on the roadway you have to have a vehicle that is registered and insured. You drove without any of those things."
Magistrate O'Brien asked Parsons what he had to say about the incident.
"Nothing, I'm really sorry and it won't happen again," Parsons said.
Magistrate O'Brien said Parson's response sounded 'very hollow' and he hoped that he meant what he had said.
"Did you not realise that you were putting your liberty at jeopardy?"
Parsons said he had since sold the car.
"Why did you buy a vehicle?" Magistrate O'Brien asked.
"I was going to put rego on it and get my licence and head to Grenfell to see my daughter," Parsons responded.
