A YOUNG Warrnambool father who turned to ice after splitting up with his partner has been ordered to do community work.
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Timothy Davies, 22, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court last week to a large range of offending after spending 94 days in custody.
Magistrate Peter Mellas said Davies’ life unravelled due to drug use.
But he said Davies was still a young man and it was hoped he could to get his life back on track.
Davies was sentenced to serve three months in jail, time he’s already served, and will now have to complete a community corrections order.
That order involves 75 hours’ community work and treatment, rehabilitation and programs for alcohol, drugs and mental health issues.
His driver’s licence was also cancelled for 12 months.
Defence counsel Andrew Tweedly said his client had started selling drugs to feed his own use.
Police said that in November last year a Mazda sedan was reported stolen from Geelong.
Davies arrived at his former girlfriend’s home, despite an intervention order, in the stolen car and told her he had bought it for $6000.
He was then seen leaving his ex-girlfriend’s home in a white Toyota ute.
Police followed him and attempted to pull him over but Davies accelerated to 80km/h in 50km/h zone, overtook on a blind corner, caused another vehicle to swerve and police terminated a pursuit due to the danger he posed to the public.
When police located the ute it was carrying false number plates and Davies was found to be an unlicensed driver.
At the time he was on bail for other matters and he breached the bail conditions by driving and going to his former girlfriend’s home.
At 6.45pm on October 23 Davies was the passenger in a vehicle pulled over by police near Bushfield.
Officers found two grams of ice in a coffee syrup container, but everyone in the car denied ownership of the drugs.
Police checked Davies’ mobile phone and he had received a text message attempting to source ice for sale.
Davies admitted using ice that morning.
He told police he had separated from the mother of his infant child, he struggled with the break-up, took up using ice, lost his job and had a $40,000 drug debt.
Police also allege forensic evidence linked Davies to a burglary at a Melbourne home in which a safe and other goods valued at $2000 were stolen.
Davies told police the last time he went to Melbourne was to go to jail.