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A BAKER left a trail of unpaid petrol debt after he repeatedly drove off without paying after filling up.
The driver sometimes went into the attendant and made excuses but then failed to return and pay.
His free fuel escapades finally caught up with bread maker Robert Thompson, with Ipswich Magistrates Court told he was unemployed at the time and had been out job hunting.
Robert James Thompson, 39, pleaded guilty to 15 charges that included 11 counts of stealing fuel; fraud; unlawful use of a motor vehicle (a hire car at Ipswich in December last year); driving when drug positive to methylamphetamine; and contravening a police order to give identification details in March last year.