AN offender involved in a stabbing after a 12-year-old’s birthday party, who then twice failed to finish a community corrections order, has been fined $7000.
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Jason Goodland, 40, of McKnight Street, Warrnambool, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to breaching the order and was resentenced.
Magistrate Ross Maxted said it would cost the community $350 a day to jail Goodland who clearly did not want to complete the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation components of the CCO.
Goodland appeared in court on the same charge earlier this year and the CCO was extended by a magistrate but he again failed to comply.
He also admitted relapsing into ice use.
The original CCO involved 200 hours of community work and rehabilitation after Goodland was charged with intentionally causing injury following a stabbing at Allansford in March 2015.
Defence counsel Jack Rabl said his client had served 69 days in jail before being put on the CCO, did most of the conditions of the order and his client had not re-offended.
The magistrate said Goodland had "mucked up" his second chance.
"It was extraordinary what happened after a 12-year-old's birthday party," Mr Maxted said referring to the stabbing.
The magistrate said Goodland had sporadically attended the CCO and had 22 unacceptable absences.
He said Goodland was then given another chance earlier this year to comply with the order but disengaged.
"The original offending was appalling," Mr Maxted said.
"You don't want to be treated. I don't know what more you want from the community.”
The breach will also break another corrections order imposed in the county court and lead to a re-sentencing in that court as well.
