A NULLAWARRE district man who has done less than eight hours of community work through a 200-hour corrections order has been given time to comply or he will be jailed.
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Matthew Wallace, 41, of Curdies River Road, Curdies River, appeared n the Warrnambool Magistrates Court charged with breaching a community corrections order.
An unfavorable Office Of Corrections report was tendered to the court.
Solicitor Belinda Northey claimed her client had done some of the community work but suffered a needlestick injury using a whipper snipper.
She said Wallace was now prepared to continue on the order after recently being fined $400 for possessing methamphetamine and cannabis.
That offending and failing to comply breached the corrections order.
Magistrate Ron Saines said he told Wallace while sentencing him on very serious charges last year that imprisonment was in the sentencing range.
He said Wallace had not complied with the order in any way and completed less than eight of the 200 hours of community work.
And he had reoffended.
Mr Saines said two medical certificates from 2015 did not indicate Wallace was unfit for work and he had returned a positive drug test to ice.
"There is every reason to deliver on what I said and impose a sentence of imprisonment," he said.
"You have been playing a little game and doing what you want. The question really is how much time should you serve in prison."
Mr Saines adjourned sentencing for three months and gave Wallace one last chance to engage with his corrections order.
He said if Wallace reoffended or did not engage with the corrections order he would be jailed.
The 12-month corrections order has started again and Wallace will return to court for judicial monitoring on November 15.
Wallace was placed on the order in February last year after bashing two year 12 students who took a wrong turn.
The mother of one of the students said her family had been left terrified by Wallace’s treatment of her son.
Wallace claimed to have thought the teenagers were there to steal
On September 3 2014, a number of students went to Blake’s Bush late at night with the consent of a landowner to do a school project.
Wallace punched one youth a number of times then yelled at another student and headbutted him.
Wallace also assaulted his wife during the same month.
Police then raided his home and found he was disposing of illicit substances after receiving a tip-off.