Aiden Benjamin Jensen has been disqualified from driving until 2044 after 10 disqualified driving and one dangerous operation of a motor vehicle offences

A car thief, 23, has been disqualified from driving until 2044 after being busted disqualified driving 10 times. He racked up nearly 40 offences during a crime spree when he relapsed into meth use following the death of his best friend.

A 23-year-old car thief has been disqualified from driving until 2044 after being busted disqualified driving 10 times following the death of his best friend in a motorcycle accident.

Aiden Benjamin Jensen pleaded guilty on April 22 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to 10 counts of disqualified driving, five unlawful use of a motor vehicle, eight stealing, one enter dwelling and commit an indictable offence, one evasion, two possession of dangerous drugs, two of receiving tainted property, one serious assault of police, one of wilful damage, one of enter premises and commit indictable offence by break and seven fraud – dishonest use of a bank card.

Police prosecutor Courtney Brown said the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle was a serious example and given all of the offending before the court, it was “hard to pinpoint” the worst offence.

“It put lives in danger, the community in danger,” she said.

Ms Brown said he reversed at high speeds, smashing into a fence and causing a metal gate to break.

“He continued to reverse at speed,” she said.

“Police had to accelerate forward to avoid being hit by the vehicle.”

Ms Brown said Jensen continued reversing into a roadway, over a street sign in the middle of the road and then drove off.

She said there was a toddler and two other people in the front yard of where the vehicle had driven from.

Ms Brown said Jensen drove a stolen car into Gracemere’s Caltex service station about 3am on March 24, 2022, and pumped 14.03 litres of petrol, at a cost of $30.02, into the vehicle and left without paying.

She said he was disqualified from driving for two years from June 7, 2021.

Ms Brown said Jensen was a co-accused in the burglary of the Australia Post shop in Park Avenue on February 20 about 4.34am where the two men used a sledge hammer and jimmy bar to hit the glass door, shattering the glass and bending the door frame in the process.

They caused $1002.18 damage.

The pair entered the premises, went behind a counter and was about to go through another door when a security alarm startled them so they left, only stealing one parcel containing “just sh--”.

Ms Brown said Jensen told police when he was apprehended that he had lost his job during the Christmas period and had broken into Australia Post with the intention on breaking into a safe “but it was too heavy”.

She said Jensen was found in possession of two bank cards stolen from cars parked and used them seven times at various service stations and McDonalds stores.

Ms Brown said Jensen told police the victim’s child owed him money which was why he committed the offences.

Jensen was also found in possession of power tools, shovel, saws and other items stolen from a ute that had been parked in an apartment complex.

Jensen told police he had argued with a resident of another apartment in the complex and stole the items when he left.

He was on a suspended sentence at the time of committing these offences for evasion and unlawful use, sentenced in June 2021 to 18 months suspended for 18 months.

Jensen had multiple entries for evasion on his 10-page criminal record.

Defence lawyer Samantha Legrady said Jensen had been abused as a child and suffered post traumatic stress disorder from it.

She said he started using methamphetamines when he was 14 years old but had been drug free for a few months before these offences.

Ms Legrady said Jensen’s best friend died in a motorcycle accident in March and his boss gave him time off for the funeral.

She said he instructed he relapsed using drugs and reoffending, going on a crime spree.

Ms Legrady said during his first mention as her client on April 21, he indicated straight away he wanted to plead guilty to all charges.

“He has spent a lot of his adult life in custody already,” she said.

Magistrate Philippa Beckinsale sentenced Jensen to a head sentence of two-years prison with parole release on November 2022, activated the suspended sentence and declared 28 days presentence custody as time served.

She also ordered he be disqualified from driving for the maximum penalty of two years per disqualified driving offence and a further six months for the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, totalling a disqualification period of 10.5 years which is cumulative on the disqualification period he was handed in June 2021.