Brazen bandit Daniel Wayne Boyd jailed over CBD burglaries, Bundoora crash with cyclist
A safe-cracking career criminal who burgled $330,000 worth of cash and goods from at least 40 Melbourne businesses in an eight-month spree, has been jailed.
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A safe-cracking career criminal who burgled $330,000 worth of cash and goods from at least 40 Melbourne businesses in an eight-month spree has been jailed.
Daniel Wayne Bowd, 31, was on bail over a horror crash that almost killed a cyclist when he entered commercial premises in the CBD between May 2016 and January 2017.
The crowbar-wielding crook was captured on CCTV forcing entry into restaurants, book shops and through fire escape doors in the early hours of the morning.
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His biggest loot was a safe containing $90,700 worth of jewellery and cash from a Docklands jeweller.
Bowd, from Southbank, was today sentenced in the County Court to four years and seven months, but will be eligible for parole after just two years and three months.
With time already served, he could be free in as little as a year.
He had pleaded guilty to more than 70 offences, including 40 counts of burglary, and dangerous driving causing serious injury to the cyclist who he struck after running a red light while high on ice in Bundoora in March 2016.
Judge Gavan Meredith said the crash was life-changing for the victim, a 37-year-old man, who sustained a brain injury and can no longer live independently.
The cyclist also suffered multiple fractures to his ribs, pelvis and spine.
“He was lawfully crossing at a pedestrian crossing controlled by lights and on impact hit the bonnet of your vehicle, was thrown upward into the windscreen, the roof line and then over the vehicle,” Judge Meredith said, adding he landed some 20m away from impact.
Bowd’s dishonesty offending, Judge Meredith said, was “self-evidently serious” and came after he had already served four months in jail in 2014 for similar offending.
“It represents a spree of burglaries and associated offending which were persistent, bold, and have involved a degree of planning,” Judge Meredith said.
“Property in the order of $332,000 was removed, and in the course of committing your offending damage in the vicinity of $50,000 was caused to various premises.
“All of this occurred while you were on bail, and you had previously received a lenient sentence for similar offending.”
But Judge Meredith said he had made positive progress following stints this year in drug rehabilitation clinics.
“You appear to be waking up to yourself,” he said. “I accept that you are genuinely sorry for your conduct.”
An earlier court heard his offending was driven by his need to feed his drug and gambling habits.
Judge Meredith also stripped him of his driver’s licence for two years, and fined him $1000.