Drug dealer escapes extra jail time on further offences
A TOOWOOMBA man sentenced to six years in jail for drug trafficking has been sentenced to concurrent terms on other offences.
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A CONVICTED Toowoomba drug dealer will not spend any more time in jail despite pleading guilty to further offences.
Lochlan David McCaul was earlier this month sentenced to six year in jail, minus the 153 days of pre-sentence custody he had already served, when he pleaded guilty before Toowoomba Supreme Court to trafficking drugs over a six-month period from May 2 last year.
The court heard the 24-year-old had trafficked predominantly methylamphetamine but also supplied cannabis and MDMA (ecstasy).
The father of two appeared by video link from Borallon Correctional Centre before Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday to plead guilty to 10 offences including the burglary of a Newtown residence and stealing property; drug driving while disqualified on Hoey St on December 18, last year; obstructing police at the Southern Hotel on July 7, last year, and trespassing on the grounds of a Kearneys Spring unit; obstructing police on August 24, last year; breaching bail by failing to report to police as directed; and unlawful use of a motor vehicle between September 30 and October 20, last year.
Police prosecutor Shelby Larcombe submitted the burglary and unlawful use of a motor vehicle offences should attract jail terms which could be served concurrently with his six-year term and McCaul could be convicted and not further punished on the remaining offences.
Acting Magistrate Roger Stark agreed that had these offences been before the Supreme Court when McCaul was sentenced on September 2, he would not have received any further penalty considering he was given a six-year jail sentence for trafficking.
With McCaul's mother watching on from the public gallery, Mr Stark sentenced him to nine months in jail but ordered the term be served concurrently with his current sentence and on the other matters McCaul was convicted but not further punished.
Mr Stark said he would not disturb the parole eligibility date set by the Supreme Court of May 7 next year.
However, the 24-year-old was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence for 30 months on the driving offences.
Originally published as Drug dealer escapes extra jail time on further offences
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