Repeat offender given final warning as judge threatens jail next time
A 26-year-old repeatedly breaking court orders was told prison is next if he reoffends.
Joshua Daniel Lam was sentenced to eight months of community corrections in Albury Local Court on Monday for driving while disqualified. Judge Sally McLaughlin warned him that reoffending means jail.
Lam was recently diagnosed with ADHD. Lam has started a roofing business and moved away from associates involved in crime.
He must observe an 8pm to 5am curfew and wear an electronic monitoring device for three months.
- Eight months intensive corrections
- Sentence
- 26 years old
- Lam's age
- Monday, November 9
- Sentencing date
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