A "career criminal" with 183 previous convictions, and described by a judge as being incapable of living in the community without committing a crime, was caught driving a stolen vehicle with 29 different sets of car keys on him.
Christopher Bryan Woodcock, 50, was caught after the person who owned the stolen utility he was driving recognised it and called police.
The vehicle had been stolen three days earlier about February 24 or 25. When police pulled the Mazda ute over, Woodcock was driving. He told officers he "found the car on the side of the road".
Inside the vehicle were 28 sets of different car keys, which did not belong to the vehicle's owner, and a key in the ignition that did not belong to the vehicle.
A large number of the tools belonging to the ute's owner and an employee were missing. Some were recovered from Woodcock's home.