IN September 2013, a terrifying “lynch mob” of Bandido bikies stormed a busy dining strip hunting a gang rival and later laid siege to Southport police station.
Eighteen Broadbeach bikie brawl participants pleaded guilty in August 2015 to charges including riot, affray, public nuisance and assault and obstruct police.
Despite the court hearing they had king-hit police, threatened to slit an onlooker’s throat and caused “fear and distress” to innocent women and children, the bikies walked free — smiling and laughing — with fully suspended jail sentences, fines and in one case a good behaviour bond.
Riot ringleader Jacques Teamo slammed the prosecution as “a complete waste of time and taxpayers’ money.”
Five years on, we’ve tracked down the key players to find out what happened to them after the notorious fight.
JACQUES TEAMO
Broadbeach brawl ringleader who has been in and out of custody since the riot.
In March this year, he was bashed with an exercise bike seat by a group of Mongols bikies in Arthur Gorrie jail.
It was the second time he has survived an attempt on his life after he was shot by Finks bikie Mark Graham at Robina Town Centre in 2012.
Earlier this month, he was fined $600 after police found an ice pipe down his pants.
“Mr Teamo needs to grow up,” Organised Crime Gangs Group commander Superintendent Roger Lowe said.
JASON ‘JT’ TROUCHET
Undefeated prize-fighter and Finks bikie gang associate who was hunted down by the Bandidos inside the Aura lounge bar over a love triangle feud with Teamo.
Fined $1000 for his role in the brawl, Trouchet said he would “do the same thing again” if push came to shove.
He was jailed in NSW in 2016 for offences, including breaking his girlfriend’s fingers and toes with a vodka bottle.
PETER MAURIC
A self-proclaimed Casanova bikie who boasted to a court how he and Trouchet had bedded the same women.
“We used to, let’s be honest, bed the same girls together,” Mauric told Southport Magistrates Court in 2015.
“One week I’d have her and next week he would. That’s how close we were.”
In May this year, Mauric was sentenced to 18 months’ jail for perjury over conflicting evidence he gave the court and the Crime and Corruption Commission ‘star chamber’.
ADAM ‘BIG WHITEY’ WHITE
A former Bandidos Gold Coast president, the 200cm, 120kg giant was in the thick of the brawl and had to be Tasered by rookie policewoman Annelise Young.
In 2016, his sentence for the brawl was increased from four months wholly suspended to 12 months wholly suspended.
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