Crime spree accused to be extradited

A MAN to be extradited to NSW for sentencing over a series of stealing offences has narrowly avoided jail for contempt after calling a Tasmanian magistrate a “f.....g dog”.

Clayton Tierney had just had his application for bail refused yesterday when he abused magistrate Andrew McKee.

The court adjourned while he spoke to his lawyer. Tierney then apologised to Magistrate McKee and the apology was accepted.

“I’m sorry your honour. I haven’t had my meds and I just lost it. You know how it is,” Tierney said via video link from the Launceston remand centre.

The 30-year-old was arrested in Tasmania last week after a police chase in the state’s North-West.

The allegedly stolen vehicle he was driving was stopped by road spikes near Devonport.

Senior Sergeant Martin Parker said an allegedly stolen black Ford Falcon XR8 ute evaded police on the Bass Highway at Heybridge about 11am on June 7.

“Police successfully disabled the ute by deploying road spikes and followed the ute at a distance until it stopped on Forth Rd, Don,” he said.

A 31-year-old woman in the same car, Jedde Maloney, will also be extradited to NSW.

Tasmania Police said in a statement last week that al- leged stolen property, including credit cards and licences, had been found in the Rosebery house where the pair had been staying in Tasmania.

The house is owned by Tierney’s father, who was in the Devonport court yesterday.

The pair are wanted on outstanding charges in NSW, including those related to an alleged crime spree in that state and Victoria as they made their way to Tasmania in May.

The duo were yesterday remanded in custody in Tasmania and will be placed into the custody of NSW police today.

They will be flown back to NSW and held at the Mascot remand centre to appear in the Central Local Court in Sydney on Saturday.