Broadbeach bikie brawl figure Jason Trouchet on drug charges

A man who has been jailed for violence and played a central role in an infamous bikie brawl has appeared in court on drug charges.

A key figure in the infamous Broadbeach bikie brawl on the Gold Coast is back in strife with the law, sentenced to jail for supplying dangerous drugs.

It comes two years after former prize-fighter Jason ‘JT ’Trouchet was released from prison for a violent attack on his ex-partner in which he broke her toes with a vodka bottle.

Trouchet, 47, was at the centre of the 2013 bikie showdown which sparked the-then Newman Government’s controversial VLAD laws.

Jason 'JT' Trouchet has appeared in court and been sentenced to jail for supplying dangerous drugs. Picture: Greg Stolz

A court heard that a ‘lynch mob’ of Bandidos bikies stormed the Aura lounge bar at Broadbeach hunting gang rival Trouchet, terrifying diners in the busy restaurant precinct.

The feud was believed to have been over a love triangle involving then-Bandidos enforcer Jacques Teamo.

Trouchet was fined $1000 for his role in the brawl.

In 2017, he was sentenced to five-and-a-half years’ jail in NSW for offences including choking and assault occasioning bodily harm over the attack on his partner.

He was arrested for the drug charges after being released from prison in March 2019 and extradited to Queensland.

Trouchet pleaded guilty in Southport District Court on Tuesday to 11 counts of supplying methamphetamine and GHB and one count of unlawfully possessing an illegal substance.

Crown prosecutor Matthew Hynes told the court that Trouchet had no criminal record for drug offences but a ‘concerning history’ for violence.

Mr Hynes said the drug offences involved supplying unknown quantities of methamphetamine and GHB to eight people on 11 occasions over a 12-month period.

Judge Nicole Kefford sentenced Trouchet to 12 months’ jail, suspended after the five days Trouchet had already spent in custody after being extradited from NSW.

Originally published as Broadbeach bikie brawl figure Jason Trouchet on drug charges