A DRUNK drug user who trashed a woman’s car and house, causing $4400 damage, has been jailed for three months.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
Paul Phillip McDonough, 37, of Fleetwood Court, Warrnambool, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to a range of charges involving being drunk, possessing drugs and caused damage.
He has already spent 71 days in custody which will counted as time served.
McDonough was also fined $800, banned from driving for six months and ordered to pay $4400 compensation.
Magistrate Noreen Toohey said McDonough had a lengthy criminal record.
“All that sentence means is that until you make up your mind to deal with your drug addiction you will spend more time in jail,” she said.
“At 37 years old it’s time to make some changes. You know what your problem is - you can’t use drugs and alcohol, they get you into trouble,” she said.
Police said that on the night of April 13, McDonough was drinking with friends at the Fleetwood Court home and he consumed bottles of beer and spirits.
McDonough argued with a man about jail and threatened to punch him in the head.
The man left the home, followed by McDonough and a woman resident locked the door behind them.
McDonough demanded the door be opened, threatening to cave the woman’s head in.
Soon after she found a large piece of food of wood wedge through a lounge room window and a smaller window beside the front door was also cracked.
Most of the windows in her car were smashed and the almost every panel had been dented.
Police attended and arrested McDonough.
In his right front pants pocket was a deal bag of ice and police also located a vial of GHB.
When further searched at the police station, glass was found in his pockets and there were fresh cuts on his left hand.
In early January police pulled over McDonough in the evening driving along Warrnambool’s Swinton Street.
He was unlicensed, tested positive to ice, had false number plates on the car and the Holden Commodore was unregistered.
McDonough said driving when under the influence of drugs hadn’t even crossed his mind.
The defendant was jailed for 40 days in February this year for unlicensed driving and theft of a car.
McDonough will also have to return to the Melbourne County Court next week for breaching a corrections after previously serving a significant jail sentence.
