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Subscriber only An aspiring police officer claimed he didn t see or hear police lights and sirens as he sped away from them, a court has heard. Justin Rene Valery Chapelain told police he didn t know they were behind him when he failed to stop on January 23 in Noosa Heads. Police prosecutor Alison Johnstone said officers followed Chapelain into Viewland Drive before he accelerated up a hill and turned left into Edgar Bennett Avenue without indicating and accelerated heavily . Police followed and it pulled rapidly away, police then activated their lights and sirens as they followed after the vehicle, Sergeant Johnstone said.
Here are eight Gympie drivers who avoided the law and made the cop s job harder.
1. Shotgun killer jailed after driving rampage ends in Gympie A convicted killer was given another three years in jail for a terrifying rampage that ended in Gympie. John Allan Black, 45, repeatedly evaded police and drove on the wrong side of the road during an attempted meth-addled getaway that ended when he crashed on a dead-end road in Gympie. John Allan Black served 12 years for the shooting manslaughter of a Mt Isa man. Black pleaded guilty to two counts each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, along with nine summary offences he racked up throughout the rampage.