‘Immense stupidity’ as Ice-fuelled night travel forensically tracked by police in Norman Park, Bulimba

A magistrate has marvelled at the complete disregard an Ice addict showed for his bail conditions as his every move was monitored by police GPS in the dead of night.

Electronic ankle bracelet tracks man’s every move. Tagging device.

AN Ice-addicted father of two who accrued 150 pages worth of GPS tracking data while on a court-ordered tracker was sentenced to 9 months’ jail today but released on immediate parole.

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Appearing via phone at the Cleveland Magistrates Court, Dylan Joseph Murphy, 37, pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching bail conditions, possessing dangerous drugs, entering premises to commit an indictable offence and attempted enter premises to commit an indictable offence.

The court heard Murphy interfered with his ankle bracelet which, held together with a black plastic tie, fell apart under police inspection.

Murphy was carefully tracked between March 20 and April 21 as he attempted to travel incognito during the early morning hours on his pushbike in Bulimba and Norman Park.

Cleveland magistrate warns defendant off drugs. (AAP Image/Richard Walker)

Police prosecutor Sergeant Angela Tetley said Murphy, accompanied by another male, broke into Lourdes Hill College on September 21 last year to steal between $200 – $300 from a vending machine and attempted to break into a local gym on October 12 last year.

Murphy was also found in possession of methamphetamine when he was intercepted by police on Wynnum Rd in Wynnum West on March 14 this year.

Sgt Tetley said Murphy’s offending was aggravated by occurring while he was on a suspended sentence for a previous breach of bail.

Defence solicitor Jim Coburn said his client’s furtive attempts at travel while on bail spoke to his “immense stupidity”.

Mr Coburn said Murphy had been undone by a relapse into drugs in 2018 but had since committed himself to detox at a New Farm clinic.

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Magistrate Deborah Vasta sentenced Murphy to nine months of imprisonment, with immediate release on nine months’ parole.

“See what drugs do to you?” Ms Vasta said.

“It destroys your life.”