Repeat Gladstone driving offender Kyle Lewis hit with $6.4k in fines

A driver who keeps offending on the roads has been hit with $6400 in fines and warned that what he is doing is the “quickest way to go to jail.”

Kyle Nicholas Lewis faced Gladstone Magistrates Court on December 13.

A Central Queensland driver who keeps offending on the roads has been told by his lawyer that what he is doing is the “quickest way to go to jail.”

Kyle Nicholas Lewis, 40, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court on December 13 to numerous charges, including four counts of unlicensed driving, and one count each of drug driving, drink driving, failing to provide a specimen of breath, and possessing dangerous drugs and utensils.

The court heard that the majority of Lewis’s offending happened this year at Mackay, with some offences occurring at Gladstone.

Kyle Nicholas Lewis.

A 12-page sentencing schedule was handed to Magistrate Mary Buchanan and she did not require police prosecutor Senior Constable Jessica McLaren to read the details of Lewis’s offending.

Solicitor Jun Pepito said he had explained to Lewis this type of offending was the “quickest way to go to jail.”

Mr Pepito said Lewis had been a carpenter but he had stopped working to join the search for his missing father who was now feared dead.

Before handing down penalty, Ms Buchanan noted Lewis’s traffic history and said she would impose fines, but if Lewis came back before the court for this type of offending again, then imprisonment “would certainly be in range.”

Ms Buchanan fined Lewis $6400 and disqualified him from driving for 21 months.