4 May 2015
A Star News Group Publication
Covering Endeavour Hills, Doveton & Hallam
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Dannii’s got the daggy fashion factor Dannii Minogue thrilled Casey fashionistas young and old when she made a celebrity appearance at Westfield Fountain Gate on Thursday night. Alexia Rose, 10, couldn’t contain her excitment when her idol appeared. Alexia later got to meet Dannii and told her that she would be missed as a judge on X Factor. Dannii confessed to the crowd that she and superstar sister Kylie love wearing daggy, track pant ensembles they put together when spending time at their family farm. 138386 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
■ Driver relocates to prison after helping relative move house...
Steered to jail A MAN who ‘borrowed’ his Hallam employer’s truck and fuelcards for a two-day circuitous journey to South Australia has been jailed until late July. Mathew John Tormey, 44, had been a sub-contracted driver for barely three weeks when he was allegedly granted permission to borrow the business’s Toyota Hilux on 31 August. A court was told on Monday
27 April that Tormey requested the utility to help his relative move house in Narre Warren South. Police prosecutor Senior Constable Cameron Smithett told the court that Tormey instead took a 2008 Isuzu truck for a two-day trip via Lakes Entrance, Ouyen, Charleston and Bairnsdale to Berry in South Australia, racking up a $713.52 bill on his employer’s fuelcards. The truck was recovered undamaged, parked behind a
service station in Pakenham Upper. The father of five told police he believed he had permission to take the truck and his plan was to get the truck back to his employer’s yard by the next day “before anyone knew”. The accused appeared at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court via video link from Fulham Correctional Centre. He was already serving three months’ jail for criminal damage, breach of a family violence
intervention order and breach of a suspended sentence. Tormey’s lawyer said the accused was helping his expartner to move from Lakes Entrance to South Australia. “In my client’s favour... his response was not to commit violence but to relocate that woman.” While in South Australia, he broke the news of his and the truck’s whereabouts to his boss – who granted him permission to use the fuelcard on his way
back from interstate, the lawyer said. His offers to repay the employer were rebuffed, the lawyer said. The accused found prison difficult due to his post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety, and had “lined up” a job on a fishing trawler upon his scheduled release on 4 July. Magistrate Jack Vandersteen sentenced Tormey to a concurrently-served three months’ jail term and suspended his
driving licences for six months. Tormey was told had he not pleaded guilty, he would have served five months without concurrency. “The more you come back to court, you’ll keep receiving terms of imprisonment,” Mr Vandersteen said. “This is the last gasp as far as three to four month terms go.” Tormey was also ordered to pay restitution for the fuelcards bills. 1047215-EP37-12
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