Instagram-famous bikie Benjamin ‘Notorious’ Geppert will be released from custody today after pleading guilty to charges in the Southport Magistrates Court.
The tattooed 26-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of public nuisance, obstructing police, three counts of possessing dangerous drugs, possessing drug utensils and one Commonwealth offence of using a carriage service to harass.
Some of the charges relate to a public fight at KFC on the Gold Coast in May which was filmed and widely circulated on social media.
Ben Geppert, a high-profile Instagrammer and former Hells Angels member, has been handed a suspended prison sentence
Geppert (right) and another man were filmed scuffling in a KFC carpark. An adjoining McDonald’s was seen in the background
Geppert, a former Hells Angels member, was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for three years.
He will be released from prison immediately after taking into account 56 days already served.
He was also put on three months parole for the Commonwealth offence.
In court today, Magistrate Andrew Sinclair handed down the sentence and said there were multiple sides to Geppert, The Courier Mail reports.
‘One with tattoos on his face, replica guns, a four page criminal history who consumes steroids and gets into fights in public — that person will spend the rest of his life in prison,’ Mr Sinclair said.
Mr Sinclair said there was another side to Geppert, who he said had people in his life who could ‘see under the tattoos’.
‘Do youse want to get done for affray or do you want to leave?’ a woman was heard screaming in the video. Geppert is pictured above with girlfriend Allaina Vader (Jones)
The couple both have sizeable followings on Instagram and use the platform to promote themselves and their lifestyle
Geppert and his girlfriend, Allaina Vader (also known as Jones), 27, were arrested in May after police raided their home.
In a subsequent hearing, the court heard uniformed police allegedly tackled a ‘naked’ Vader during the raid.
Vader was charged with assaulting a woman during a road rage incident on May 17.
Police alleged she bit the face of a 40-year-old woman and stomped on her head.
She was granted bail in May.