Driving offences bring jail

A CLIFTON man with a habit of driving while disqualified has been handed a jail term for his latest offending.

Kierron Alex Pincombe was found by police alerted to a suspected drink-driver sitting in the driver’s seat of a car on Perth St about 4.25pm, New Year’s Day, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

A roadside drug test showed the 42-year-old had meth and cannabis in his system and CCTV footage from a nearby service station showed him driving the car just five minutes prior, police prosecutor Cameron Francis told the court.

Police checks found Pincombe had been disqualified from driving for 30 months by the same court on August 4 last year, he said.

Pincombe was again captured by CCTV camera driving into the Ruthven Street BP Service Station about 5.15am, June 28.

When police contacted the registered owner of the car, they were told Pincombe had been driving at the time, Mr Francis said.

Pincombe pleaded guilty to drug driving and both disqualified driving offences as well as to possessing 5.7g of cannabis and a pipe for smoking it on January 4; and obstructing police and having drug utensils at his Clifton home on March 6.

His solicitor Brad Skuse said his client was on a suspended sentence and probation but submitted a period of parole as penalty.

“Imprisonment is a sentence of last resort but I concede we’ve reached that point,” Mr Skuse said.

His client had suffered a brain injury from a swimming accident when he was child, he said.

Magistrate Howard Osborne sentenced Pincombe to six months in jail but ordered he be released immediately on parole, fined him a total $1100 and disqualified him from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for two years on each disqualified driving offence.