Jay Alfred Marsters: Gold Coast steel fixer’s high-speed police chase, drink drive crash revealed
A young Gold Coast steel fixer has admitted to leading police on a dangerous, high-speed chase through Logan as he helped a group of buddies try to get away from cops after they had collected a police vehicle.
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A young Gold Coast steel fixer has admitted to leading police on a dangerous, high-speed chase through rural Logan as he helped a group of buddies try to get away from cops after they had collected a police vehicle.
Jacobs Well man Jay Alfred Marsters, 21, appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on May 1 where he pleaded guilty to six charges, most seriously dangerous operation of a vehicle and evading police, as well as two counts of drink driving.
The most serious offending occurred at about 8.40pm on August 3 last year.
Marsters came to police attention when a group of his friends, who had just been involved in a collision with a police vehicle, bundled themselves into Marsters’ vehicle in a bid to get away.
Patrolling officers, seeing Marsters’ sedan travelling on Kingston Rd at Waterford West without registration plates, activated their lights and sirens, but Marsters “immediately reacted... [by] heavily increasing his speed,” the police prosecutor told the court.
The police vehicle ceased the pursuit, but a Polair chopper tracked Marsters as he swerved around traffic, blew multiple red lights, and crossed onto the wrong side of the road.
He narrowly avoided several collisions, the prosecutor said.
At one point, Marsters slowed his vehicle, allowing one of his passengers to alight and escape onto a waiting motorcycle.
At another, he stopped his car completely, urinated on the roadway, then continued his bid to escape.
Tyre deflation devices were successfully deployed at Chambers Flat Rd and Marsters eventually crashed into a traffic pole, at which point he and those remaining in his vehicle were arrested.
Subsequent breath analysis returned a positive result of 0.061 per cent blood-alcohol content (BAC), and it was also discovered he did not have a valid driver’s licence, the court was told.
He was charged and bailed, but subsequently drink drove again in the Queensland township of Roma on November 20 last year, returning a higher reading of 0.131 BAC.
The court was told Marsters, a FIFO steel fixer earning the impressive sum of $3500–$4000 on a good week, had minimal traffic and criminal history prior to the current matter.
Defence lawyer Rachel Carson told the court her client had had a problem with alcohol since the age of 18, which was exacerbated by the February 2024 death of his godfather, with whom he was exceptionally close.
At the time of the offending, the New Zealand-born, Gold Coast-raised Marsters was also smarting from the revelation his passport would not be renewed in time for an important family event across the ditch.
“He is ashamed he put so many road users at risk,” Ms Carson said.
Acting Magistrate Sarah Thompson told Marsters he made some “very poor decisions”.
She fined him $8065 (the mandatory minimum for evading police), placed him on two years’ probation, and disqualified his licence for a minimum of two years.
No convictions were recorded.
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