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“I don’t think there’s … any physical reason why you can’t do any community work focusing on drug treatment and other rehabilitative aspects of the order,” Aumair said on Tuesday.
“This, I think, will ensure that we don’t see you again in court or fall foul of the justice system.”
Towle’s licence was cancelled and he was disqualified from driving for 18 months when his sentence was deferred in March.
In 2008, Towle was sentenced to 10 years’ jail after he drove into a group of 13 teenagers in Mildura in February 2006.
The crash took the lives of Shane Hirst, 16, his 17-year-old sister Abby Hirst, Stevie-Lee Weight, 15, and Cassandra Manners, Cory Dowling and Josephine Calvi, all aged 16.
Towle fled the scene, leaving his injured preschool-age son in the car, before later handing himself in to police.
He was released from prison in June 2013 on good behaviour with strict conditions but was re-jailed in September 2015 for an unspecified parole breach.
Towle was released again in May 2017 after his sentence was cut by eight months and a successful parole application.
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