A Mendooran resident who drove to fill up at a Dubbo petrol station while he was disqualified from driving until 2050 has been sent to jail.
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According to court documents, police who caught Robert Leslie Anforth driving on August 1 said the 42-year-old believed it was his "right to drive on the road... and not a privilege".
"Police see no other way of mitigating the risk of [Anforth] driving again other than full-time incarceration," police advised.
In Dubbo Local Court for sentencing last week, Anforth entered a guilty plea to a drive while disqualified charge.
Anforth's legal representative conceded his client was a "frequent flyer" in the court when it came to driving while disqualified charges.
"His whole record is pretty much driving while disqualified," the legal representative told the court.
"He's a person who does not have a preponderance of serious driving offences."
The legal representative said the circumstances which led to Anforth getting behind the wheel were "a little unusual".
Anforth said somebody drove him from Mendooran to Dubbo so he could go to a chemist, the court heard.
That person abandoned Anforth so he asked his partner to travel to Dubbo from Mendooran to drive him home.
I've lost count of how many drive while disqualified's you've had
- Magistrate Gary Wilson.
The court heard that while he waited for his partner, Anforth drove to a service station to get petrol and meet his partner so they could go back to Mendooran.
Anforth's legal representative told the court it had been several years since his client drove a vehicle.
"Its been three-and-a-half years between drinks, if I can put it like that," the legal representative said.
Magistrate Gary Wilson said Anforth had previously in jail and was given "a number of suspended sentences".
"I've lost count of how many drive while disqualified's you've had," magistrate Wilson told Anforth.
"Because of your continuing offending... I have no alternative but to impose a term of imprisonment," the magistrate said.
Anforth was sentenced to four months in jail with no non-parole period and disqualified from driving for two years.
He will be released on April 17 next year.
In court documents police said when Anforth drove in August, he had been disqualified from driving from December 2001 until December 2050.
