Speed lover nearly lost bike, car confiscated

A speeding teenager who nearly had his mate’s motorcycle impounded has now had an Audi confiscated by police.

Ezra Christopher Albert Gordon, 19, was banned from driving after clocking 226kmh on a motorbike on a South Island highway.

But just three days after his sentencing last month, Gordon was caught driving a white Audi in central Blenheim.

He was pulled over by police, who noticed he was disqualified just days earlier, a police summary said.

Gordon had led police on a highspeed chase along the alternate highway between Christchurch and Picton in August, reaching 226kmh on his motorcycle.

And three days before that chase, Gordon had fled police through Christchurch, clocking 150kmh on a road which had a 50kmh limit.

Judge Tony Zohrab described his offending as ‘‘kilometres of stupidity’’ and said if he fled police at speed again, Gordon could be facing jail time.

Gordon, of Koromiko, Marlborough, was disqualified from driving for two years on January 15, after pleading guilty to two counts of dangerous driving and two counts of aggravated failure to stop for police.

The owner of the motorcycle Gordon was driving was sent a letter warning that if another unlicensed driver was caught using it, the bike could be seized.

After Gordon’s trip in the Audi, he admitted driving while disqualified at the Blenheim District Court on Monday.

Police had impounded the Audi. Judge David Ruth convicted Gordon and remanded him on bail to March 26 for sentencing.