Jaxson Creighton was on his way from a parole meeting - and high on the drug ice - when he stole a specially modified vehicle from a woman with a disability as she and her carer were packing the boot after a morning at the pool in Maitland.
Creighton, 25, was sentenced in Newcastle District Court on Tuesday to a maximum of two years and six months in jail for a crime spree that involved the theft, another attempted carjacking and an act of intimidation only minutes earlier.
The court heard Creighton had been to a meeting at the Community Corrections office on September 13 before he and his father Mark Creighton walked to Maitland train station, where Creighton junior climbed into the driver's seat of a Mazda and locked himself inside while the woman who owned the vehicle was standing nearby.
The woman's brother and a taxi blocked Creighton junior from driving off with the car, and Creighton senior convinced his son to get out of the vehicle, before the pair fled.
A man chased them towards Maitland's indoor aquatic centre, a few hundred metres down the road, but stopped the pursuit when Creighton junior pulled an unspecified object from his bag and waved it in the air, telling him to "f*** off, dog".
Creighton junior then arrived at the aquatic centre carpark and climbed into a specially modified Honda CRV, while the owner - a woman with a disability requiring a mobility scooter - and her carer were packing the vehicle from behind.
Creighton senior warned his son not to reverse and pulled the woman from the path of the Honda as it moved backwards.
Creighton junior then climbed into the back seat as his father got into the vehicle and they drove from the scene together.
"This was a physical taking of the car from the people who were there," Judge Roy Ellis said.
"Then it's even worse, that it was taking a special car, or a car that had been mechanically changed to accommodate her ... mobility scooter, and also had been changed to assist her in dealing with her disability.
"That's significant. It's an important car. It's taken from her presence ... neither of them had any opportunity to prevent it."
Creighton senior was sentenced to a maximum of two years and three months in jail over the incident.
The court heard on Tuesday Creighton junior had spent the "vast majority of his adult life in custody".
"If he's not institutionalised, he's well and truly on the road," Judge Ellis said.
His sentence was backdated to account for time he has spent in custody since he was charged with over Maitland spree.
He will be released on parole in December.
