Despite his legal representative telling the court his client's six months in jail had given him "aspirations to change", a magistrate has sentenced Jakobie Prior with further time in the lock up.
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The 26-year-old, appearing from Junee Correctional Centre via Audio-visual link, was charged with aggravated break and enter, as a passenger in a vehicle he knew was stolen.
Originally pleading not guilty in December, Prior changed his plea on Wednesday.
Facts tendered to Griffith Local Court outlined on October 3, Prior and three others went to a property on Irrigation Way in Cudgel in a stolen ute which had been spray-painted black, bearing stolen number plates.
The Great Wall SUV was reported stolen from Yanco on September 28, with the number plates reported stolen from Leeton that morning.
The group entered a large shed on the farm and stole property worth around $90,000.
The farm owner noticed the tracks in the driveway and found the group parked next to the roller door. One offender saw him and beeped the horn to warn the others, who ran back to the ute with their faces covered by bandannas.
Despite the farmer attempting to block them in they fled the scene, but not before the number plates were memorised.
The vehicle and some tools were later located by police that day and were forensically examined.
Prior's DNA was identified on the steering wheel and the front passenger side, with his DNA found on a stolen toolbox, bolt cutters and a hammer.
He was arrested on December 10 and refused bail.
Prior's legal representative Piers Blomfield told Magistrate Joy Boulos his client was in danger of being institutionalised due to his continued re-offending.
"He has a terrible criminal history... and he just keeps getting caught," Mr Blomfield explained.
"He has aspirations to change since the arrival of a child, and wants to be a part of his life."
Magistrate Boulos said imprisonment was the only appropriate punishment.
"It showed execution and organisation... spray painted ute, stolen number plates, bandannas... everything was done to prevent being detected," she said.
He was given 20 months prison with 15 month non-parole period for the break and enter, with a six month sentence for being in the stolen vehicle, back dated from December 10.
He will be eligible for release on March 9, 2020.
