A WARRNAMBOOL ice trafficker has abandoned an appeal against a jail sentence he received for trying to rob an elderly gambler during a home invasion at Yangery.
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Jordan Alan Brown, 21, of Clifton Street, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court on July 3 and was jailed for 12 months with an 18-month corrections order to follow.
Brown appealed against the severity of the sentence, which was heard in the Warrnambool County Court.
He abandoned the appeal after judge Mark Dean warned he would consider imposing a longer term.
Brown was jailed for three months in March this year on drug trafficking charges which breached a suspended jail term.
Police alleged that Brown and a co-accused planned to commit a burglary at Yangery, knowing the resident of a Conns Lane property was a gambler and might have cash at his home.
At 4.30am on February 12, Brown and the co-accused walked into the property. The co-accused was armed with a steel pole.
The men entered the home and then the victim's bedroom. They demanded money and the co-accused lunged at the victim.
The man said there was money in his car and when Brown and the co-accused left, the victim fled out a bedroom window and ran to a neighbour's home.
The offenders stole his bank cheque book.
The victim suffered cuts to his head and arm and two fractured ribs.
Later that day Brown presented a cheque for $1642 at a bottle shop and the next day he went to the bank with a cheque made out for $2760.
The teller recognised the name on the cheque, knew the cheque book was cancelled and alerted the manager, who contacted police.
In other news from the court, a Portland ice addict with a $5000-a-week habit who coward-punched a man outside a hotel has rejected an offer of a shorter immediate jail term on appeal.
Cody Nichols, 27, of Waratah Crescent, was jailed for 20 months with a minimum term of 14 months in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court on July 2.
He appealed the severity of the sentence and judge Mark Dean told Nichols he was prepared to hand down a longer overall sentence with a much longer parole period.
Nichols rejected the offer. He is in the Port Phillip Prison psychiatric unit and there's no guarantee he will be released when he becomes eligible for parole.
