GABLE Tostee is back behind bars after being sent to jail in NSW for a a drunken, high-speed cross-border police pursuit in his dad’s car.

Tostee, who is on bail for for murder in Queensland, looked shocked as he was jailed for 10 months for the unrelated offence in Tweed Heads Local Court.

He will serve six months before being released on parole.

He waved to his visibly stunned parents as he was led to the cells by police.

Tostee, 28, pleaded guilty to speeding and being involved in a police pursuit which the court heard reached speeds of almost 200km/h and ended with sparks flying from Tostee’s tyre rims after officers deployed road spikes.

The charges relate to an incident on July 27 last year, three weeks before he was charged with the Queensland murder.

He had been at the Splendour in the Grass music festival at Byron Bay and was sleeping in his father’s car when friends woke him and asked him to drive them back to the Gold Coast to get into a nightclub before the 3am lockout.

The court was told that about 2.20am, police saw the Ford Falcon travelling without number plates on the Pacific Highway at about 150km/h.

A pursuit commenced and reached 195km/h before road spikes were deployed near the Queensland-NSW border.

But Tostee continued to drive with sparks flying from the rims before being stopped about 1km into Queensland.

He registered a blood alcohol reading of .2 per cent, four times the legal limit.

Defence barrister Peter O’Connor said Tostee had been ‘brutalised’ during three months spent in jail in Queensland before bring granted bail, and was ‘terrified’ of going back inside.

He tendered several psychiatric reports, references and a letter from Tostee to the court which heard he suffered from a range of psychological problems including attention deficits disorder,

obsessive compulsive disorder and and alcohol abuse issues.

But magistrate Michael Dakin said it was the second time Tostee had been charged over a police pursuit and noted he also had four drink-driving convictions.

He said Tostee had travelled at ‘grossly high’ speeds while highly intoxicated and he and his passengers were at ‘great risk’.

He said although Tostee had shown ‘genuine remorse and contrition’, a full-time custodial sentence was the only option.

Mr Dakin sentenced Tostee to 10 months’ jail and disqualified him from driving for three years.

Tostee is due to face Southport Magistrates Court in March on the drink-driving charge as that alleged offence happened in Queensland.

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