Bailey Prentice: Magistrate orders yawning crook to stay awake
Back in court for driving crimes this Seaford girlfriend basher and kid threatener struggled not to nod off.
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A tired thug with a horror history of attacking his partner and threatening their child has yawned his way through another court hearing.
This time Bailey Allen Prentice admitted driving and breach crimes he committed after not long being released from prison for violent and vile offending against the mother of his child.
The Seaford 22-year-old had been jailed last year for hitting his ex-girlfriend in a busy Frankston street.
Prentice had also said to her he would attack the woman and his own child with a knife, saying “I’ll cut you and your kids up, you sl*t”.
Before that angry attack he had only been out of prison for six weeks — for punching the same woman.
On Wednesday, Prentice appeared at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court by video link from his uncle’s house to plead guilty to several driving charges.
He said he normally stayed at his mother’s home, but the family “had Covid” so he had to isolate at his uncle’s address for the time being.
The court heard in August last year Prentice was seen by police in Seaford driving a Ford with no plates.
He was pulled over and found to have no licence either after he had been disqualified in December 2019.
He told officers he was only driving to get medication from a chemist for his friend.
His car was impounded for 30 days.
In November he was again caught behind the wheel without a licence.
This time he was nabbed in a Hyundai in Carrum Downs, and he lost that car to the impound yard too.
He said Prentice had been diagnosed with a significant cognitive impairment and requested he be given time for that to be explored further.
While Magistrate Vicky Prapas was speaking to Prentice he continually yawned and moved the camera phone around.
“Am I keeping you awake?” she asked him, to which he said ‘no’, he was OK.
Prentice was bailed on conditions including that he live with his mother, not drive and not breach any court order.
He will reappear in court on January 31 next year.