Bailey Clout sentenced in Bundaberg District Court for sentence breach

The moment a wild crim stole a mobile dog wash with the terrified owners and their four-legged client still inside the trailer, has been detailed in court.

He’s been sentenced over a drug-linked stabbing, burglary and other serious crimes but Bailey Clouts’s recent date with the Bundaberg District Court took things to a new level.

As he pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended sentence this week it was revealed he’d driven off in a mobile dog wash “in a dangerous way” which resulted in a crash.

The court heard Clout had taken the vehicle, which had a trailer on the back for washing dogs and that the owners of the business had been inside the trailer washing a dog at the time.

The dog jumped from the trailer and the business owners had to call police while enduring the frightening ordeal.

Clout had originally been sentenced in the district court in 2020 over a range of offences including grievous bodily harm, common assault, fraud and unlawful wounding.

Judge Michael Rackemann referred this week to the 2020 sentencing remarks of Judge Paul Smith, who said the grievous bodily harm charge had been the result of an attack on Clout’s partner where he punched her in the face, causing an orbital fracture and an injury to her retina.

The unlawful wounding charge had been the result of a stabbing in a “drug deal gone wrong”.

In that sentencing, Clout received a suspended head sentence of four years, with two years of pre-sentence custody taken as time served, but not declared.

It wasn’t long before he was back in court.

Clout offended just 39 days after being released from custody and was back in court on June 2, 2021.

The court heard the charges related to that offending had been two of trespass, one of possessing a dangerous drug, one of possessing utensils and one of entering a premises to commit an indictable offence.

The offending came about when Clout stole money and a watch from a car before running from police who found him at home with a syringe and amphetamines.

A two-year sentence was imposed.

Clout was once again sentenced over his offending, but was dealt with in magistrates court in November 2021 on charges of burglary, committing an indictable offence, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and receiving tainted property.

The court heard he had broken into a home before taking keys and a car and was later found driving a stolen vehicle.

He’d also been caught driving unlicensed.

At the time, Clout was sentenced to nine months’ prison with immediate parole.

Then, last month, he was sentenced over the dog wash theft after he pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court to one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and one count of dangerous operation and was fined $500 on the basis he was not aware the trailer had been occupied at the time.

This offending breached his release conditions which led to the charge before the district court which heard Clout had a troubled upbringing.

“There is a point where you must take responsibility for your actions and in particular, for your rehabilitation,” Judge Rackemann said.

“It is concerning that the report on your supervision history paints a picture of someone who has in the past failed to meaningfully engage in intervention and who is therefore not considered to be suitable for further orders.”

The court heard Clout had attended a substance abuse program while in jail.

For this breach of his former district court sentence, Clout, who appeared from prison via videolink, was sentenced to serve the whole of his two-year suspended prison term, but was allowed immediate parole eligibility.