Roger Deward Bush, 33, was sentenced on Tuesday to six months imprisonment after Magistrate Grace Donalds checked his record and found his most recent offence was his 11th conviction for failing to come to court.
The magistrate noted he had been given a sentence of four months in October 2007, but it was suspended for two years with the usual condition that he not offend again.
Bush pleaded guilty with explanation to failing to surrender on 4 March, 2008. He said the charge he had been coming to court for at that time ‘didn’t come to anything.’
The magistrate agreed that the Crown later did not proceed with the charge, but it was not for Bush to decide not to come to court.
She told him she had never seen so many convictions for failing to surrender. ‘I cannot see I have anything to do other than activate the four months,’ she said. In addition, she imposed a sentence of two months for the latest failure to surrender and directed that it run consecutively.
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