In one incident, Megan Nicole Toohey told police she was driving because she had to urgently get her passenger to hospital.

“I’m just giving her a lift. She’s in labour.”

But Albury police quickly dismissed Toohey’s excuse when the passenger declined a police offer to call an ambulance, instead indicating she would get a taxi.

The urgency of the occasion was further discounted when the passenger then walked off to buy cigarettes at a nearby supermarket.

Magistrate Tony Murray has sentenced Toohey to 14 months’ jail with a minimum of seven months over the disqualified driving offences.

Toohey pleaded guilty though immediately lodged a severity appeal to the District Court.

She remains in custody pending a bail application in Albury Local Court on Monday.

One incident from March 22 resulted in Toohey being charged with drive while disqualified (second offence), unlawfully possess number plates, use an unregistered motor vehicle and a final count of using an uninsured motor vehicle.

In that case, Toohey pulled her station wagon into the BP service station on Wodonga Place, Albury, about 5.20pm.

Her passenger got out of the car and filled the car with $40 in fuel, then got back in and the pair drove away.

Two days later police pulled her car over after she turned from Swift Street into a laneway.

Toohey – who later had a deception charge related to the fuel drive-off withdrawn – gave police the name, address and date of birth for the ex-partner of her brother.

But later checks revealed Toohey was the driver, and disqualified, so police went to an address in Wodonga.

“The accused maintained that she had been staying in Geelong … and had only just left there at 6.30am on that morning, and had been given a lift by her grandmother to Wodonga to see her children,” police said.

The incident involving the pregnant friend happened on April 11 about 9.20am when police approached her after she pulled into a Lavington hotel car park.

Another driving while disqualified matter occurred in Albury on March 24.