Jye Twyford: Pakenham drug-addled driver’s bed debris disaster

“Stupidity, I guess’: This Pakenham crook’s comical and criminally poor attempt to tie down his bed led to his own drug-driving downfall.

A drug-addled disqualified driver was nabbed iced-up behind the wheel after his bed fell off the back of his trailer.

An “appalling” drug-addled disqualified driver was nabbed iced-up behind the wheel after his bed fell off the back of his trailer.

Jye Thomas Twyford was lucky to escape jail for his latest round of menace motoring, with a magistrate pulling back from imprisoning him and instead handing him a big ban and fine.

The Pakenham 29-year-old father has a shocking criminal history after living a life of crime to feed his daily drug habit.

He has an 18-page theft, burglary, drug, dishonesty and assault rap sheet, including 47 warrants for his arrest and failing to answer bail 21 times, and has previously told a court he used “as much (ice) as he could get his hands on”.

Twyford pleaded guilty to drug-driving, disqualified driving and failing to secure a load charges at the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

The court heard a police patrol drove past his car and trailer parked on the side of Koo Wee Rup Rd in Koo Wee Rup on July 22 last year.

When they went back to check what was going on they discovered parts of a bed strewn across the highway, which was causing other drivers to have to swerve.

Twyford had been moving furniture but had not tied any of it down and the bed had fallen out of the back of the trailer.

Cops discovered he was disqualified from driving at the time and he tested positive for ice.

Twyford told officers he didn’t realise he didn’t have a valid licence — even though he had been suspended in court just a few months before — and he couldn’t explain how the bed had fallen out.

Representing himself in court he admitted his decision-making wasn’t the best that day.

“I haven’t got much to say, it was stupidity I guess,” Twyford said.

Magistrate Brian Clifford said his history was appalling and it was fortunate for him that he couldn’t be jailed for his drug-driving.

He said the disqualified driving offence alone didn’t warrant a prison sentence — this time.

“I’m very tempted to impose a jail term today (for the disqualified driving),” Mr Clifford said.

“But instead I will impose monetary penalties to deter you and others.”

Twyford responded that he didn’t think jail was necessary anyway.

“I’m in full-time work, have just moved to Pakenham, I have a lot going good for me,” he said.

He was disqualified from driving for 18 months and fined a total of $3250.

The police then applied to get the car impounded again — it was confiscated for 30 days in August — which irked Twyford even more.

“It’s not my car, it’s (my girlfriend’s car), cops have put a block on it and she needs it,” he said.

A hearing for a further impoundment of the vehicle has been set down for May.