Hells Angels member John Peter Lord Stacy granted permission to travel overseas

A Hells Angels bikie on bail after allegedly meeting his club friends at a graveyard has been granted permission to travel overseas on holiday.

A Hells Angels member who was arrested after allegedly meeting with other members at a graveyard has won a bid to go on an international holiday with his partner.

In the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday morning, Hells Angels member John Peter Lord Stacy, through his lawyer, asked for his bail conditions to be varied to allow him to travel overseas.

Mr Stacy, the son of prominent club member Peter Stacy, who was one of the faces of the club’s battle against the state government to regain control of its rural stronghold at Ponde on the River Murray, told the court he had been planning a holiday to the Philippines.

Magistrate Brian Nitschke heard Mr Stacy, 34, is a gas turbine power generation specialist who has been told he’s “locked in” for a five week maintenance job starting in September.

“He’s got the opportunity now to travel if he wants to, and he does want to,” Mr Stacy’s lawyer said.

He said his client’s partner had recently lost a friend to suicide, and the two “think it would be good for her to get away”.

Prosecutors told the court they would be opposed to allowing Mr Stacy to go on holiday as it would be hard to monitor his whereabouts overseas.

The Hells Angels members were charged after a meeting in a graveyard.

“We oppose the variation, and the prosecution position is that he should not be granted the variation,” the prosecutor said.

“There’s no specific purpose for travel, and police fear that monitoring movement overseas will be difficult in terms of compliance.”

Mr Stacy’s lawyer said his client had been charged in relation to a Hells Angels meeting that occurs every year.

“This is a prosecution that’s arisen out of the attendance by a group of Mr Stacy and his friends in the Hells Angels club that happens every year at the cemetery at Centennial Park, and on this particular year for reasons that are not yet clear, police have decided to prosecute them.

“It requires prosecution to prove that they were knowingly present with two or more members of the organisation in a public place, and the allegation is that they rode from a member’s house in Cherry Gardens to the cemetery.”

Mr Nitschke said many of the co-accused members in the same matter had been granted permission to travel overseas, with Mr Stacy’s father allowed to travel to the UK while on bail.

He granted Mr Stacy permission to travel to Manila, with conditions he report to his local police station when returns.

Mr Stacy and his co-accused club members will return to court later this year.