Former bikies Corey Kinnear and Benjamin Geppert on parole
FORMER bikies Corey Kinnear and Benjamin Geppert on parole after lying to police about who was driving a car.
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TWO former bikies have been slapped with jail terms but released on immediate parole after lying to police about who was driving a car.
Former Finks bikie Corey Kinnear, 25, and his mate former Finks and Hells Angels bikie Benjamin Geppert, 25, this morning pleaded guilty to attempting to perverting the course of justice in July 2015.
They were both sentenced to three months behind bars, but released on immediate parole.
The charges came after the pair were questioned by police in the carpark of Hungry Jacks Robina about who had been driving a black BMW.
Geppert, who did not hold a driver’s licence at the time, had been driving but told the police Kinnear was behind the wheel, the Southport District Court this morning heard.
Police did a series of checks that later showed Kinnear also had a suspended license and the car was unregistered at the time.
Sometime later police viewed CCTV footage that showed Geppert driving the vehicle.
Both men were questioned in December 2015 and January 2016 about the evening but declined to be interviewed and were later charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice after lying to police.
Crown prosecutor Mark Whitbread told the court the offence had effectively “sent police on a wrong prosecution.”
In sentencing, Judge Julie Dick said the charge was serious and “strikes at the administration of justice”.
Kinnear has previously been sentenced for punching another person in the head during a road rage attack at the Carrara Markets and was separately convicted of common assault.
Geppert was alleged to have bashed a member of his former club with a baseball bat outside a busy restaurant precinct in Varsity Lakes on December 2015 but the charges were later dropped.
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