Originally Posted by Derek S

I will give the justice system the benefit of the doubt and assume he was on remand for a good few months before sentencing in Aug 08.

Even then its clear he has a pattern of repeat offending. Surely when it comes to early release and parole they should look at past history before letting them out. From the looks of things he hasn't attempted to go straight. All he has done has tried to cover his tracks a bit better by pretending the tickets were nicked by the postie.