The 35-year-old Knight, also known as Trevor Hartnett, was jailed and put off the road for another 21 years on Wednesday after pleading guilty previously to three counts of driving while disqualified.

Before then, the Ashmont man was disqualified until 2052 thanks to about 10 convictions over the past 16 years.

The first of Knight’s latest snubs of the law happened last New Year’s Eve when police spotted him driving his green Mitsubishi Magna sedan on Heath Street.

Knight – who has never held a licence – was pulled over on Bolger Avenue and could not offer police an explanation for driving.

He was later issued a field court attendance notice.

Just a week later, on February 6, the same police saw Knight driving on Buna Street.

Asked why he was driving, Knight said he had gone to get his methadone and to help out his cousin.

Knight was arrested on the spot and faced Wagga Local Court the next day when the magistrate ordered Knight be assessed for an intensive correction order, one of the last sentencing options before full-time custody is imposed.

But the threat of jail did not deter Knight.

On February 25, police saw Knight use a jerry can to put petrol into a car stopped on Fernleigh Road.

Soon after, they saw him driving the Magna on Buna Street.

This time when he was questioned about driving, Knight became aggressive with police.

“So what, I just put fuel in the car and drove it here,” Knight told police, according to undisputed facts tendered to the court on Wednesday.

“I didn’t do nothing wrong (sic),” he said before calling police a foul name.

Knight has stayed behind bars since his arrest that day.

Knight’s legal representative, David Rofe, told magistrate Erin Kennedy he had spoken with Knight about his record and it had brought home the seriousness of the offending.

Ms Kennedy told Knight it was pointless for her to have the same conversation with him about driving “again, again and again”.

Knight has served jail terms before for driving while disqualified.

“It’s your life you keep gambling with and taking yourself out of your life,” Ms Kennedy told him.

“It’s a pretty simple decision to make not to get into a car, isn’t it?”

Ms Kennedy gave Knight concurrent six-month fixed jail terms backdated to February 25 for the first two offences and disqualified him from driving for two years on each offence.

Knight was given a concurrent 12-month head sentence, with eight months’ non-parole, for the third crime, also backdated to February 25.

And he was handed a third two-year driving ban.

Ms Kennedy declined to quash five-year habitual offender declarations for each of the three offences, taking the total disqualification out to 21 years.

“The very thing they (the declarations) are aimed at is you – you are an habitual offender,” Ms Kennedy told Knight.

Knight will be released from prison on parole on October 24.