Glamorous Melbourne marketing student Julia Solanikow done for speeding charge after doing 96km/h in 40km/h zone

A Melbourne glamour girl with a taste for high-end living and flashy cars — including a you beaut Merc with personalised plates — was clocked doing staggering speeds just two weeks after getting her Ps.

Julia Solanikow was caught speeding doing 96km/h in a 40km zone in Melbourne. Picture: Social media

A glamour girl hoon clocked doing almost 100km/h in a 40km/h zone blabbed to police – in a bid to beat the speeding rap – that her mum may have been driving her car.

Julia Solanikow, 20, lost her licence after she was done hooning through Melbourne’s inner south just after 10pm on December 22, 2022.

Solanikow, who according to social media attended elite Brighton private school Star of the Sea, was clocked doing a staggering 96km/m in a 40km/h zone.

The elite glamour girl, who poses on Instagram with lux fashion accessories, top tier dining and cocktails and flashy cars including an expensive Mercedes Benz with personalised plates, was 19 and had only had her licence for two weeks when she was nabbed.

Solanikow, of Melbourne’s plush Bayside area, threw the kitchen sink at beating the speeding charge with her two-person legal team making a multi-pronged defence.

Julia Solanikow with her car

The defence submitted the speed camera which caught Solanikow was not the same camera “tested in accordance with the regulations” and the camera was not “operating correctly and properly sealed”.

The defence also submitted that part of Solanikow’s police interview should be “excluded” as it contained “improperly obtained evidence”.

Julia Solanikow

Magistrate Tim Gattuso found the majority of the police interview should be excluded as cops did not caution Solanikow that she “did not have to say or do anything”.

“This is a clear contravention of (the evidence act),” Mr Gattuso said.

Mr Gattuso ruled only the first 11 minutes of body worn camera footage could be used as evidence.

Julia Solanikow

The court heard Solanikow, while being interviewed by police on January 2 last year, agreed she was the registered owner of the vehicle and the “usual driver” of the car.

Solanikow also told police “she didn’t know what she was doing on (December 22)” and “her mother and another unmade person also occasionally use the vehicle”, the court was told.

Julia Solanikow

Solanikow also told police she could find out “who was driving the vehicle at the time”.

Police then advised Solanikow they “required any information within your power that may lead to the identification of the person who was the driver of the vehicle…”.

They then warned Solanikow that if she “failed to comply” she could be charged with an offence that may end with a possible jail term.

Police told Solanikow they would give her a few days before coming back but if she “had a good think about it and could work out who was driving” then she could call them.

Solanikow, who worked at the Botanical Hotel at the time of the offence, told police she worked in the area but “wouldn’t have gone past Chapel St”.

Solanikow’s defence submitted this summary was misleading.

Julia Solanikow

Solanikow eventually copped to being the driver during a later police interview.

“I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Miss Solanikow did not feel compelled … to falsely admit the commission of an offence that would lead to … potential imprisonment…,” Mr Gattuso said.

He found the speeding charge proven but struck out a drive at a speed dangerous charge.

The court heard Solanikow, who has no criminal priors, has since left her Botanical job and currently studies marketing.

“The speed here concerns me…,” Mr Gattuso said.

“You’ve no doubt got a bright future ahead of you … don’t drive, sometimes it’s tempting … doing something like that … (if you are caught driving while suspended) that’s punishable by imprisonment.”

Solanikow, who avoided a conviction, had her licence suspended for 12 months and was ordered to undertake a road trauma awareness program.