Magistrate Michelle Hodgson said she was left with no other option than to jail Alexander Scott, 29, and that she had to send a message of deterrence. 

“It is a fact and it is real, that people go to jail for driving offences,” Ms Hodgson said. 

“Jail is a real prospect when one breaches these conditions ... and it will mark how serious these breaches are.”

Scott, who pleaded guilty to each charge of breaching an alcohol interlock condition, was jailed for one month. 

The court heard that in the space of four months after receiving a court order to install the alcohol interlock device, Scott was caught on seven separate occasions driving without the device. 

The offending began in December of last year. 

Police prosecutor Senior Constable Michelle Kilburn said that in one incident on January 2 this year, Scott was pulled over by police after he was observed driving fast and squealing his front wheels. 

A check on Scott’s licence revealed he had an interlock condition and that the device wasn’t fitted to the car.

After being informed that he could not drive the vehicle, Scott proceeded to drive away when the police left the scene. 

His varied response to police when he was intercepted on the seven different occasions included not having the money to install the device and that he was waiting for an opening with a mechanic in order to install the device. 

Scott’s defence lawyer Hamish Locke said that at the time of the offending his client had being using the drug ice. 

“It came as no surprise for me to hear that there is amphetamine use in the background as well,” Mr Locke said.

“His offending stopped at about the same time he stopped using amphetamines.”

Scott was sentenced to one month in jail and received a $350 fine.