A man who deliberately swerved to kill two kangaroos with his ute after drinking with his mates has been spared a stint in prison.

Leo Boland drove his mother's Holden ute at speed and ran over two kangaroos while his passenger filmed the whole ordeal.

The 21-year-old from Balgowlah Heights in Sydney's northern beaches was sentenced on Thursday after killing the kangaroos on a dirt road at Running Stream, about 200km northwest of Sydney, in July 2024.

Manly Local Court magistrate Daniel Reiss rejected Boland's pleas to escape conviction and said the facts of the case were "disturbing".

Boland deliberately swerved the car at high speed to kill the national icons even as they attempted to escape.

He then stopped the car near the dead body of one of the kangaroos, the agreed facts of the

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