A Lavington man has been handed nearly three years' jail almost a year after effectively using his car as a weapon to avoid police.
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Trevor Shannon Barrett has been in custody, bail refused, since December 12 over a series of matters for which he later pleaded guilty.
Tuesday's sentencing by magistrate Rodney Brender in Albury Local Court was on four separate sequences.
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Barrett's aggregate sentence of 33 months with a non-parole period of 22 months means his release date on these matters will be November 11, 2020.
But Barrett might not necessarily taste freedom by then, as he also faces sentence by Judge Sean Grant in the District Court next Monday on six other sets of matters.
His sentencing on Tuesday afternoon included for a larceny where he stole a mobile phone in a taxi, for a charge of being carried in a conveyance where he was the passenger in a car involved in a police pursuit and for a series of break-ins on cars and car thefts.
But some of the more serious matters related to an incident in Albury on December 6, 2018, in which he fled police at high speed.
He was eventually cornered in Glenelg Drive, Springdale Heights, by Wodonga officers. Barrett, then 19, took off at low speed and crashed into the officers' car.
Barrett had already pleaded guilty to two other charges.
The court was told Barrett had a difficult upbringing and, magistrate Rodney Brender said on Tuesday, "unfortunately you have been taking drugs from a very young age".