Lavington teenager must live with support worker, do rehabilitation programs

And if it wasn't for a member of Narcotics Anonymous offering on Wednesday to take him into his home to supervise his drug rehabilitation, Kyle Crighton would be serving his 12-month jail term in his Junee jail cell.

Instead, the 18-year-old from Lavington was released from custody, having spent two months behind bars bail refused, on an intensive corrections order.

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The sentence took magistrate Richard Funston, who made the "crime wave" comment on refusing Crighton bail in June, more than an hour to complete.

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Crighton previously pleaded guilty to six separate sequences amounting to 18 charges, including multiple charges of driving unlicensed, exceeding the speed limit by more than 45km/h, dealing with the proceeds of crime and driving a conveyance taken without consent.

Mr Funston said on Wednesday that Crighton's extensive offending was "awful".

"And he simply does not care," he said.

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Defence lawyer Mitchell Brooks said his client suffered significant trauma at 14 when his 19-year-old brother died in a car crash.

He immediately turned to using methamphetamine.

Mr Funston said he accepted that the brother's death would have "the most tragic matter on his mind" and represented "absolute trauma".

"But it comes to a stage in life where we have got to look after ourselves."

One of the charge sequences on which Crighton was sentenced was related to the theft of a 2020-model Mercedes Benz GLC 200 in Uralla Place, Albury, on May 23.

The Lavington teenager and an accomplice broke into the car at 2am, then he drove as his mate filmed him going from from 46km/h to 141km/h in the space of 12 seconds on Young Street.

Crighton was disqualified from driving for 12 months and also incurred a large number of hefty fines.

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