The 22-year-old West Albury man’s decision to break the law yet again though just continued the pattern of his short adult life.

Albury Local Court heard this week how Green, said to have a mild intellectual disability and issues with psychological anxiety, had spent a lot of that time in jail, including a two-year term imposed in the District Court for an aggravated break and enter.

A pre-sentence report on Green pointed out he was “at high risk of re-offending”.

“You have an unfortunately lengthy record for a young person,” magistrate Rodney Brender told Green, who fronted court from Junee jail, having been refused bail on May 30.

That was for a scam where he used a debit card stolen from a car parked in central Albury to buy everything from mobile phone credit for his mother to cigarettes and fuel.

By the end of it he had managed to rack-up $690 on the card. But after he went into custody, a police check on his mobile phone showed Green had tried to make a further $1800 in transactions that were refused by the bank.

Green previously pleaded guilty to larceny, two counts of obtain a financial advantage by deception and two counts of obtain property by deception.

Magistrate Rodney Brender said there was no application for compensation because the victim had been compensated by the bank.

Green responded with a smirk, but Mr Brender later fined Green the amounts of $200, $60, $363 and $67 that he had netted in the deception.

Mr Brender sentenced Green to four months’ jail, which when allowing for the term already served means he will be released from custody on September 29.

He was also placed on 12-month good behaviour bonds on each of the deception matters.

The Hume Bank debit card was stolen from a car parked overnight in Englehardt Street on May 24.

The bank informed the owner at 8.40am the next day that the card had been used for several unusual transactions.