Paea Langioutu Talakai busted consorting with notorious former bikies, breaching bail conditions
A Comanchero bikie has managed to avoid jail after he was caught breaching bail to attend a strip club and consorting with convicted criminals at a well-known Brisbane nightclub.
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A Comanchero bikie who consorted with a notorious former bikie at a well-known nightclub and who fled police after breaching his bail at a strip club has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
Paea Langioutu Talakai, 30, from Mt Gravatt, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court last week via video-link from prison where he pleaded guilty to five charges including habitual consorting with recognised offenders including George Bejat and Zivko Stojakovic between July 18, 2020 and June 1, 2021.
He also pleaded guilty to obstructing police at the Kittens Strip Club on December 5 last year; contravening an order banning him from the nightlife precinct; breaching his bail by going to the strip club in The Valley and failing to give police his name and address while at the club.
The court heard that the most serious of the charges was when a drunk Talakai fled police who had asked him for identification in the Kittens Strip Club.
Several officers chased him through Brunswick St as he ignored police commands to stop.
He ran back up Wickham St before handcuffing and arresting him outside the Prohibition nightclub.
The court heard that Talakai was still subject to a six months’ prison sentence, suspended for 15 months, for an affray at the Mr Mista nightclub on Ann St in Fortitude Valley in February 2020, when he was busted consorting with convicted criminals Bejat and Stojakovic at the luxury Calile Hotel in Fortitude Valley.
He was also still on parole when he was charged with habitual consorting, and served three months time in custody for breaching parole.
Talakai was previously convicted of affray and fracturing a footballer’s cheekbones in a random “violent pack assault” of a former footballer after 3am outside the trendy nightclub in February 2020, together with Bejat and former timber worker Matthew Mackay.
He had also previously been officially warned by police against consorting with the men.
At Mr Mista on May 30 last year Bejat was seen on CCTV using his mobile phone to snap photos with Talakai and plumber Harley Tane Hohepa, to be posted on social media app Instagram and Talakai shared a few drinks with the pair.
Hohepa has also been charged with consorting and his case remains before the courts.
Talakai also has a conviction for affray in the ACT in 2018, after he was involved in a brawl at Capital Men’s Club, a strip club in Canberra on August 20, 2017, after the Comanchero’s annual run to Canberra.
Talakai’s defence lawyer Ashkan Tai told the court that his client had been training with a football club, but after his name was published in The Courier-Mail last year in an article about consorting he “lost ability to train with them and the contract with them”.
On December 5 Talakai was “extremely drunk” when he went to the Kittens Strip Club in the Valley, following another social function earlier in the evening, and when he saw police he ran from them, Mr Tai told the court.
Talakai has been in prison on remand on other fresh but unrelated charges since January 8, the court heard, but planned to return to his job as a landscaper with Troy Roberts at Oakmont Landscaping upon his release.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Janelle Brassington sentenced Talakai to six months’ prison suspended for 15 months, as well as 40 hours community service for the conviction for obstructing police and banned him from entering the nightlife precincts in Brisbane between 6pm and 6am for a year until January 30, 2023.
She recorded convictions.
For the charge of obstructing police in licenced premises she gave Talakai the maximum sentence of six months prison, to be served concurrently with the four months prison for habitual consorting.
She gave him one months prison for the breach of bail offence and he was convicted and not further punished for contravening the banning order and failing to state his name.
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