HER HONOUR: Riley Wilkin, you have pleaded guilty before me to one charge of theft, and one charge of dangerous driving causing serious injury. The maximum penalty for theft is 10 years' imprisonment, the maximum penalty for dangerous driving causing serious injury is 5 years' imprisonment. The facts underling your offending are as follows. On 8 April 2015, a red Ferrari F430 Spider Coupe, worth $230,000 was delivered to your workplace, Flash Rides, to have a small crack in the rear bumper bar prepared. It had just been subjected to a complete service. The Ferrari was fitted with a tracking device, and after it was delivered to you, data from that device, indicates the car was driven from about 8.30 that evening, and at 8.50 that night, it revealed the Ferrari was being driven at 138 kilometres per hour. This is not a matter, however, that concerns this court, insofar as the sentencing for this matter is concerned. At about 10.30 in the evening of 13 April 2015, you went to your work with two friends, sisters Simone and Breanna Diablo, and while they are looking at the Ferrari, asked them if they wanted to go for a spin. Simone, it was decided, would go first and got into the passenger seat, and you drove the car away from the workshop. Your driving of the car, which was without permission, and not necessary for the work that you were undertaking, amounts to an unlawful use of the motor vehicle and underlies Charge 1 on the indictment, theft of a motor vehicle. At about 10.40, you drove the car onto Raleigh Street Jacana, towards the intersection of Westmore Road, driving at about 80 kilometres per hour to the left of three west-bound lanes. You suddenly accelerated heavily, which caused the rear wheels of the Ferrari to lose traction. It slid sideways, out of control, and mounted a concrete and grass median strip, striking a tree.
HER HONOUR: Riley Wilkin, you have pleaded guilty before me to one charge of theft, and one charge of dangerous driving causing serious injury. The maximum penalty for theft is 10 years' imprisonment, the maximum penalty for dangerous driving causing serious injury is 5 years' imprisonment. The facts underling your offending are as follows. On 8 April 2015, a red Ferrari F430 Spider Coupe, worth $230,000 was delivered to your workplace, Flash Rides, to have a small crack in the rear bumper bar prepared. It had just been subjected to a complete service. The Ferrari was fitted with a tracking device, and after it was delivered to you, data from that device, indicates the car was driven from about 8.30 that evening, and at 8.50 that night, it revealed the Ferrari was being driven at 138 kilometres per hour. This is not a matter, however, that concerns this court, insofar as the sentencing for this matter is concerned. At about 10.30 in the evening of 13 April 2015, you went to your work with two friends, sisters Simone and Breanna Diablo, and while they are looking at the Ferrari, asked them if they wanted to go for a spin. Simone, it was decided, would go first and got into the passenger seat, and you drove the car away from the workshop. Your driving of the car, which was without permission, and not necessary for the work that you were undertaking, amounts to an unlawful use of the motor vehicle and underlies Charge 1 on the indictment, theft of a motor vehicle. At about 10.40, you drove the car onto Raleigh Street Jacana, towards the intersection of Westmore Road, driving at about 80 kilometres per hour to the left of three west-bound lanes. You suddenly accelerated heavily, which caused the rear wheels of the Ferrari to lose traction. It slid sideways, out of control, and mounted a concrete and grass median strip, striking a tree.
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