A father who made fake $50 notes on a $40 printer and tried to spend them at the WACA on a day out intended to spoil his children has been jailed for two years.

David Russell White was on bail for his amateurish attempts to make fake money — some of which he had successfully spent in shops in Armadale — when he took his children to a one-day international match between Australia and Pakistan in January.

After reports of the fake notes circulated at the ground, White’s attempt to buy more drinks at a bar aroused suspicions and attracted police, who found more of the notes in his bumbag.

The District Court was told that White’s money-printing scheme was discovered after four counterfeit $100 notes and two counterfeit $10 notes were found in his wallet during a routine traffic stop in November last year.

A search of his home by police unearthed a laptop, a combination printer and scanner, tools, templates and stencils consistent with making counterfeit money, as well as paper, ink and plastic adhesive sheeting intended to replicate the windows in various banknotes.

White, 37, admitted he had managed to print nearly $1500 in fake notes at his Mt Richon house.

Police returned his printer and laptop when he was released on bail — and he used them again to print more fake cash.

It was that money White was caught with at the WACA, along with 18 part-completed counterfeit $50 notes, seven part-completed counterfeit $10 notes and plastic adhesive sheeting, some of which were cut into the shape of the clear plastic window on banknotes.

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White’s lawyer Gretta Draper told the court that the father of two had assumed he was going to prison over the earlier charges, so he wanted to take his children “out for one last adventure”.

“He used the counterfeit money to do so,” Ms Draper said. “Not a wise idea.”

Judge Allan Troy sentenced White to two years jail with a release after 16 months on a $5000, 12-month good behaviour bond.

“I’m unimpressed by the explanation given,” Judge Troy said. “It would hardly be an impressive piece of mitigation for a person to say that they committed a burglary in order to spoil their children with the proceeds from that burglary.

“And that’s precisely what you contend.”