The matter of Jeremy Stubbs came before Dubbo District Court yesterday for sentence on charges of multiple counts of dangerous driving occasioning death and failing to stop after a vehicle impact occasioning death.

The charges arise from an incident where the station wagon Stubbs and three others were travelling in crashed into a tree on the Parkes-Wellington road.

Stubbs had previously pleaded guilty to the charges.

The court heard that Stubbs’s solicitor had had difficulty in visiting the man in custody.

Judge Sir Robert Woods scheduled Stubbs’s sentencing for June 11.

Stubbs appeared in Wellington Local Court on August 15 last year.

There he faced charges of two counts of aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death, two counts of dangerous driving

occasioning death and negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm.

He was also charged with failing to stop and assist after a vehicle impact and driving, even though he has never held a licence.

The incident happened after 10pm at Baldry as the station wagon travelled north.

The bodies of two people were discovered in the burned-out wreckage.

Emergency workers allegedly spent almost six hours scouring the scene, about 86km south of Dubbo, in search of Mr Stubbs.

It is alleged he was conscious when they eventually found him.

He suffered serious injuries himself, having surgery on his spleen and lungs at Orange Base Hospital after the incident.

Ten police from Dubbo including forensic services personnel and specialist crash investigators attended the scene.

Police from Parkes were also deployed along with members of the Rural Fire Service and the State Emergency Service.