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CHEYNE Orcher’s driving is so abysmal and dangerous that he now won’t be allowed to get a licence for 10 years.
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That is all thanks to a potentially deadly police pursuit for which he has also been jailed for 16 months.
“In my view it’s a very bad example of this type of behaviour,” magistrate Tony Murray told Orcher on Wednesday
“Quite clearly the defendant has little if any regard for the road rules.”
Orcher was oblivious though to at least half of Mr Murray’s sentencing remarks in Albury Local Court.
The handcuffed Wodonga man spent a lot of his time in the dock looking across and mouthing words to his partner and young child.
Mr Murray said Orcher should be looking after this child, to turn one next month, at what was a critical time in its life, instead of being in jail.
Initially Orcher was going to defend several charges arising out of the cross-border police chase back on February 19.
But solicitor Dione Garwell told the court that Orcher, 26, would instead plead guilty to police pursuit and disqualified driving.
Three other charges were withdrawn following negotiations with police.
The pursuit began when police saw Orcher and his co-offender speeding in Wodonga about 7pm.
But they terminated the chase because of the high speeds, with the pair’s Commodore crossing the border into NSW.
They were next seen by police travelling at 100km/h in a 60km/h zone in Glenroy.
The car was chased along Gap, Logan and Burrows roads, then Alamein Avenue and Griffith Road, before continuing along Urana, Sanders and Wahroonga roads.
Police chased the men on foot then arrested them at a Fairview Drive home after the car crashed at the intersection with Logan Road.
Mr Murray said there clearly was a considerable danger posed to police, the public and the offenders themselves from their terrible driving.
He said the fact Orcher was on bail at the time for similar allegations in Victoria and had been convicted over a similar police pursuit were aggravating factors in sentencing.
“The court is dealing with a person with an unbelievably bad driving record over a short period of time,” he said.
Orcher has to serve eight months before becoming eligible for parole.
Already disqualified from driving until 2019, Orcher was handed an extra six-year ban from obtaining a licence.