Matthew Laurence Sailor, 26, of Blake Street, Heywood, unsuccessfully applied for bail in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court and was remanded in custody for a guilty plea to most of his charges in koori court next month.

He has also breached a community corrections order, done none of his 120 hours of community work and spent the past 76 days in custody.

Magistrate Cynthia Toose said the real difficulty was that she had absolutely no confidence Mr Sailor would attend court or stop offending.

“There’s warrant after warrant after warrant,” she said.

“Your difficulty is the repetitive nature of your offending. I have grave concerns for the safety of members of the public.

“You have a bit of a cavalier approach to driving. Ultimately your past has caught up with you. You really are a recidivist offender.”

Mr Sailor is currently charged with more than 25 offences and has prior court appearances for driving while disqualified, drink driving and dangerous driving.

He was placed on his CCO after serious offending involving a woman in 2016 but has not engaged with the Office Of Corrections since June last year.

Lawyer Xavier Farrelly said his client was now the father of a three-month-old baby and he had missed being at the birth of his child.

Police said Mr Sailor was charged with driving or drug offences 11 times between August last year and January. 

He was wanted by police earlier this year before he was arrested on May 2.