UPDATE, 3.30pm: A WARRNAMBOOL man charged with stealing a friend’s car is being kept in custody overnight while forensic tests are carried out in relation to two burglaries.
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Daniel Winning, 23, of no fixed address, unsuccessfully applied for bail in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court, but a part-heard bail application is expected to reconvene on Friday morning.
Senior Constable Ash Ellemor said that Mr Winning was a suspected in two burglaries committed in Warrnambool overnight on Wednesday.
Preliminary results from forensic tests are expected to be available on Friday morning.
Early this year Mr Winning was jailed for six months on charges including theft of a motorbike and burglary and theft committed at a family friend’s home.
Magistrate Cynthia Toose adjourned the bail application part heard, saying she would wait for the preliminary forensic test results while noting that Mr Winning had four prior court appearances for failing to appear in court.
Mr Winnng is already on 16 ocharges, including four burglaries and thefts and multiple counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception, committed overnight on New Year’s Eve in Warrnambool’s Harris Street and Henry Street.
Stolen items included jewellery, $1600 in cash, electronics, clothing, four bottles of spirits and teleophone credit.
Mr Winning said he didn’t commit the burglary but he knew who did.
Police said that at 11pm on Friday last week Mr Winning and a co-accused went to the address of the victim.
They asked to borrow his white Holden Commodore sedan.
The owner came with them, but they pulled over in Raglan Parade and the co-accused was ordered he get out of the back of the car.
The owner feared for his safety, he got out and Mr Winning drove off at high speed.
At 12.03am on Wednesday the stolen car was involved in a collision with a building in Warrnambool’s Rooneys Road.
A witness saw the driver, who ran off, but the description did not match Mr Winning.
Police officers went to the home of the co-accused and found Mr Winning in a rear bedroom where he was arrested.
He admitted he went to borrow the car, said he kept it for a couple of days but then returned it, although didn’t tell the owner he had returned the vehicle.
Earlier: A WARRNAMBOOL 23-year-old man who has a habit of stealing from people he knows will appear in court on Thursday after being charged with taking a car belonging to an associate.
Warrnambool police Sergeant Chris Brown said the man was alleged to have taken the vehicle last Friday near near the central McDonald’s restaurant and drove off at high speed..
That car was then involved in crashing into a building in Warrnambool's Rooneys Road about midnight last night.
Police inquiries about the car led to a witness, then the owner, a co-accused and eventually the 23-year-old who was arrested and charged with theft of the car, unlicensed driving and committing offences while on bail.
"He got the car from an associate and decided not to give it back. He's had the vehicle for the past few nights," Sergeant Brown said.
The charged man was jailed for six months in February this year after breaking into the home of a woman he knew.
He will appear in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court on Thursday for a bail/remand hearing.