Caleb Kye O’Donohue sentenced in Rockhampton Magistrates Court

A father with a history of drug issues broke into the Rockhampton home of a wheelchair-bound man known to him, rifling through his property and stealing items.

Caleb Kye O’Donohue sentenced in Rockhampton Magistrates Court.

A father with a history of drug issues broke into the Rockhampton home of a wheelchair-bound man known to him, rifling through his property and stealing items.

Caleb Kye O’Donohue, 27, pleaded guilty to several offences after he burgled the man’s home in the early hours of November 30, 2022, the Rockhampton Magistrates Court heard.

While the group were at the property they did an “untidy search” and keys, cards and a phone were stolen.

On March 31, 2023, O’Donohue failed to comply with an order issued by a magistrate to give police the pin code to his phone.

Police prosecutor Clancy Fox told the court officers were investigating the ramming of a police vehicle and O’Donohue hindered their investigations by failing to comply with the order.

Mr Fox said it was not suggested O’Donohue was involved in that incident.

He said most of O’Donohue’s offending was property related.

O’Donohue’s lawyer Ashley Reynolds told the court her client had no like offending in his history.

She said her client made full admissions to police, and while previously he’d had issues with drugs, he had not committed any drug offences since March.

Ms Reynolds said her client had since separated himself from the people he associated with during his issues with drugs.

She told the court her client was a father and his youngest child was four months old.

She said he had the support of his partner and had worked on her parents’ property in the Central Highlands region.

He appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court by videolink from the Capricornia Correctional Centre, pleading guilty to a string of offences, including burglary, receiving tainted property, possessing a phone suspected of being stolen, possessing a pipe which had been used, breaching bail, contravening an order and failing to appear in court.

Magistrate Grace Kahlert took into account O’Donohue’s plea of guilty and that it came at an early opportunity.

Ms Kahlert said the most serious offence was the burglary.

“It was a person that was known to you, and a person in a wheelchair so they were more disadvantaged and you took advantage of that,” she said.

O’Donohue received a total sentence of nine months imprisonment.

He was given an immediate parole release.