Zane Ryan Smith in court for hooning

A young father has been convicted of 21 offences, including multiple incidents of hooning and driving while disqualified.

Zane Ryan Smith appeared in Gympie Magistrates Court on November 15, 2022.

A 20-year-old apprentice working on the Bruce Highway Bypass near Gympie and twice disqualified from driving was caught hooning one day after receiving a police warning in Bundaberg.

Gympie Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday that Zane Ryan Smith had his licence revoked for nine months on June 29, 2021 for punching another person and doing dangerous burnouts.

He faced court again a month later for disqualified driving and lost his licence for two years.

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The court order did not deter him and Smith was again caught driving while disqualified a year later near Bundaberg, on July 22, 2022.

Only a day later, Smith took an uninsured and unregistered car with plates belonging to another vehicle onto East Deep Creek Rd and started doing burnouts, the court heard.

He returned to East Deep Creek Rd to raise more smoke on July 30-31, after doing more burnouts on the same road, and while drugs were in his system near Gympie Central Shopping Centre, it heard.

The car he used on Excelsior Rd was also uninsured, unregistered and had cancelled number plates.

Magistrate Chris Callaghan said Smith went hooning on three occasions that day.

“You’ve just snubbed your nose at the court,” Mr Callaghan said.

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Lawyer Patrick Meehan told the court Smith was an apprentice woodworker who worked on the Bruce Highway, and was father to a two-year-old child.

Smith was “acting out” because the mother of his child would not let him spend time with the two-year-old during that time period, Mr Meehan said.

Smith was sentenced to six months imprisonment suspended for two years and disqualified from driving for three years and three months.

He pleaded guilty in Gympie Magistrates Court on Tuesday to four counts of driving while disqualified, three counts of doing burnouts, four counts of driving an unregistered vehicle, four counts of driving an uninsured vehicle, three counts of driving with number plates belonging to another vehicle, one count of driving with cancelled number plates, one count of driving while a drug was in his saliva.

Originally published as Zane Ryan Smith in court for hooning