MAD TO THE MAX
Menace caught breaking the law multiple times… and still thinks he shouldn’t go to jail
A SERIAL disqualified driver with a shocking traffic record has appealed a jail term after he was convicted of the offence for the 23rd time.
Gold Coast drug maker Kris Spizzirri’s list of traffic violations runs for eight pages, including convictions for forging a driver’s licence and 10 speeding fines, with some for high-range speeding of more than 40km/h over the limit.
It is matched by an extensive criminal history – including a conviction for largescale production of the drug ice. But he reckons he doesn’t deserve to go to prison, appealing to the Southport District Court within minutes after Magistrate Paul John- stone sentenced him to a four-month jail term on March 18.
His protests come despite the fact he went to prison for five months two years ago after he was convicted of eight counts of unlicensed driving.
The 32-year-old playboy was picked up for driving his white Hyundai while disqualified on Brisbane Road at Arundel just four days after his parole supervision for his May 2013 conviction expired.
It was about 11.15pm on October 12, just days after he was released from the Southport watch-house where he was serving time for breaching parole.
He told police he had been to a friend’s place in Helensvale and was on his way home to Carrara and his li- cence was disqualified. He didn’t mention he was on bail for serious drug-dealing charges or that it was his 23rd offence of driving while disqualified. He was serving a two-year licence disqualification that began in May 2013 for the eight counts of disqualified driving between 2011 and 2013.
Magistrate Johnstone said while sentencing Spizzirri in March that he “thinks that he is a law unto himself” and he deserved a jail term because he kept reoffending.
Court documents reveal Spizzirri has 22 previous convictions for disqualified driving and five for unlicensed driving.
His extensive criminal history was also tendered to the court ahead of a September 14 appeal hearing.