A FORMER Corryong man, now living in Lavington, has failed in his appeal against a two-month jail term for breaching a suspended sentence.
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The suspended sentence was imposed on Joseph Henry Cook, 51, a convicted sex offender, for loitering near a public place.
He was sentenced in Nowra Local Court on March 8 last year.
He also received bonds for possessing a prohibited drug and equipment to administer a prohibited drug, on condition that he abstain from using illicit substances.
But magistrate Gordon Lerve was told in Albury Local Court last year Cook had continued to use cannabis and had been breached by the Probation and Parole Service.
Cook was sentenced to nine months’ jail with a two-month minimum.
Judge David Frearson, sitting in the District Court at Albury, dismissed Cook’s appeal and confirmed his conviction and the two-month jail term.
Mr Lerve last year said Cook’s criminal record in Victoria involved many cannabis offences.
He was sent to jail in 2003 for being a child sex offender.
