Hoon found guilty of illegal street racing at court after police saw him racing away from northside lights

Street racer found guilty of illegal racing after police caught him red handed racing at northside traffic lights.

A teenager street racer who was caught red handed at North Lakes traffic lights has been fined and ordered off the roads.

Jacob Mario Lenoble was found guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court of racing after taking the charge to trial.

The court heard on Friday, October 11, 2019, two police officers in a marked car heard a loud engine revving at a set of lights in North Lakes.

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The officers turned their car around and drove behind the group of four cars that were pulled up at a red light.

Then the lights turned green, the two front cars, one the Lenoble was driving, accelerated away heavily.

Jacob Mario Lenoble was found guilty of illegal street racing.

The court heard police estimated they reached about 100kmh in a 70kmh zone.

The two cars stopped at the next set of lights and police intercepted them.

When speaking to police at the scene Lenoble admitted he had been racing.

But in court Lenoble said he had only told police “what they wanted to hear” as he was hoping for leniency.

Lenoble claimed he and the driver of the other vehicle had not planned on racing and they had both just sped away from the lights.

Lenoble said he did not believe he had been speeding when he accelerated away from the lights.

Magistrate Trevor Morgan found Lenoble’s actions did constitute as a race and there did not need to be a spoken plan before the two cars took off.

“It seems to me absolutely clear the intention to race might be in the mind of one person only,” he said.

“The circumstances described by the police … is entirely consistent with Mr Lenoble participating in a race.

“There is no reasonable explanation other than he was in a race. To say that he was not speeding suggests he is not a witness of truth.”

Lenoble was found guilty. He was fined $500 and disqualified from driving for six months.

His car, which was impounded, will be forfeited.

Originally published as Hoon found guilty of illegal street racing at court after police saw him racing away from northside lights