Jordan John McNamara-Davies’ freedom short lived after prints found in stolen car

A Dalby man found himself back behind bars less than a week after getting parole after he accepted a lift in a stolen car.

Dalby Court House

A 23-year-old Dalby man has faced court from prison after police found his finger prints on a stolen car just two days after he was released on parole.

Jordan John McNamara-Davies appeared in Dalby Magistrates Court over AVL, pleading guilty to using a vehicle without consent and breaching a domestic violence order.

McNamara-Davies had been in prison for 79 days for a separate offence when he received parole and began offending within a week, landing him back behind bars.

The court was told that on January 17, 2025 neighbours of a Dalby health service called police after hearing people break into the premises and leave in several vehicles, including a Mitsubishi.

At the time McNamara-Davies was fishing at Miles Creek and was offered a lift home, getting into the Mitsubishi. The court was told that was when he saw the driver was wearing gloves and was told the car was a “hotty”, a term for a stolen vehicle.

McNamara-Davies allegedly then demanded to be let out of the vehicle before ultimately accompanying the thieves back to an Amelia St property.

While there McNamara-Davies allegedly helped remove the vehicles’ plates.

Police tracked the vehicle back to the Dalby property with forensics discovering McNamara-Davies’ prints in the vehicle as well as on the number plates which were found stashed behind a microwave.

Police also found several items belonging to McNamara-Davies in the centre console.

Several days later on January 21 police attended the address of a protected person for a separate matter discovering McNamara-Davies at the address in breach of a domestic violence order made on November 15 2024.

The court was told McNamara-Davies had a four page criminal history with his offending first starting in 2023 after witnessing the tragic suicide of his mother's’ partner.

When sentencing magistrate Kathleen Payne took into account the tragic circumstances which had led to McNamara-Davies’s offending, she also noted that he had been an accessory after the fact not knowing the car was stolen when he got into it.

For his offending he was sentenced to six months imprisonment added to his existing eight months and was released on immediate parole.

A conviction was recorded.

Originally published as Jordan John McNamara-Davies’ freedom short lived after prints found in stolen car