Peninsula party boy Khial Smith pleads guilty to attempted carjacking at Frankston servo
A GHB and meth-addled peninsula party boy pistol-whipped a “soft target” during a terrifying attempted carjacking at a Frankston servo but the masked brute didn’t bank on his brave victim fighting back. WATCH THE VIDEO
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A drug-affected Peninsula party boy met his match when the “soft target” of his terrifying attempted carjacking at a Frankston service station fought back.
Khial Smith, 24, fronted the County Court on Wednesday after he admitted attacking his victim “Jason” at the Caltex service station on Nepean Hwy on September 17 last year.
The hooded menace was off his head on GHB and meth and armed with an imitation handgun when he lunged at his victim just after 930pm.
Smith pointed the gun at Jason and demanded his car keys.
“Give me your f***** car keys c***,” Smith growled at his victim.
“You’re not getting my keys,” Jason yelled back.
Jason kicked Smith but the brute clobbered Jason with the gun and repeated his demands.
The pair tussled in the middle of the service station carpark.
A glass coffee cup Jason held during the fight smashed and shards went into his hand.
Jason fought Smith off to a waiting getaway car, then followed the thug down the street.
Police identified Smith via CCTV pulled from the service station and other locations.
Investigators spoke to Smith at the Cheeky Squire Hotel carpark just after 3pm the next day but was he not arrested despite wearing the same clothes from the night before.
Smith was eventually charged on September 27 after being nabbed in a car in Mornington.
Jason fronted the media the day after the attack.
He said the ordeal felt like “something out of a Hollywood movie”.
“He was standing there … I got this funny feeling something wasn’t right and I thought (to myself) I’ll just watch him,” Jason said at the time.
“As soon as I tried to get into the car he pointed his gun at me.”
The court heard Smith has been unemployed since being sacked from his landscaping job more than four years ago.
Smith spends most of his time getting high with his mates on meth and the deadly party-drug GHB, the court heard.
The Dromana Secondary College dropout and ex-McDonald’s worker was on a community correction order when he attacked Jason.
Smith also has priors for drugs, weapons, theft and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
In March, Smith was jailed for eight months for reckless conduct endangering serious injury.
Smith’s lawyer conceded her client’s attack on a “soft target” aggravated the offending.
She said Smith’s motivation to carjack Jason was for financial needs to cover his meth and GHB addictions.
“(The drug use) may have muddled his view about how he was going to make a financial gain,” Judge Michael McInerney said.
Judge McInerney will sentence Smith — who pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated carjacking — on August 6.
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