Former bikie behind bars
Ex-Bandido Mauric jailed for perjury
FORMER Bandidos bikie Peter Mauric took in an audible breath when he learned he would spend the next nine months behind bars.
Mauric, 48, was found guilty of lying under oath about his relationship with former Finks member Jason Trouchet in the wake of the infamous Broadbeach bikie brawl in 2013.
After a two-day trial the jury were unable to determine if he had lied to the Crime and Misconduct Commission in October 2013 or in a Southport Magistrates Court hearing in 2015.
Mauric, under oath, told the CMC hearing he did not know Mr Trouchet at all. But two years later, also under oath, he bragged about knowing Mr Trouchet for 20 years.
“We used to bed girls together,” Mauric said in the recording of the magistrates court proceedings.
“I would have her one week, the next week he would. “That’s how close we were.”
Judge Katherine McGinness yesterday sentenced Mauric to 18 months jail to be suspended after nine months.
Mauric spent the more than hour-long sentence reading his hard-copy of his barrister Scott Corish’s sentencing submission to the judge.
With his long black hair tied back and in a white shirt, Mauric spent the proceedings with his eyes downcast.
The subdued demeanour was in stark contrast to his behaviour during the trial where he, when the jury left the room, taunted detectives who were observing proceedings.
“Either way I won the riot,” he said at one point. “Are you happy now, trial of the century.”
The court heard yesterday with Mauric in prison his wife of almost 15 years may be forced to sell their Tweed Heads home and move in with her parents in Sydney.
Ms McGinness said she took that into account when forming her sentence.
She said she accepted that Mauric lied willingly.
“I am satisfied that (at the Crime and Misconduct Commission hearing) it was in your interest to distance yourself from Jason Trouchet,” she said.
“At the time of your Magistrates court hearing it was in your interest to be close to him.
“It was an obstruction of justice and you know that you exposed yourself to perjury.”
The maximum penalty for perjury is 14 years.