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Maidstone Crown Court sentenced Amin Belechguer to four years after his guilty plea to dangerous driving.
Kent Police, the BBC, The Independent, and KentOnline reported that Amin Belechguer, 29, was jailed for four years at Maidstone Crown Court on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, after a guilty plea. Kent Police and The Independent counted 21 dangerous-driving offences. The BBC and KentOnline counted 22. The driving ban is 10 years in the first three accounts and 11 years and four months in KentOnline's account of the order.
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The four-year term is the sentence after the guilty plea those outlets reported. The count is not settled on the page: 21 in the police account and in The Independent, 22 in the BBC and in KentOnline. The ban length is not settled either. Judge Catherine Moore's words in KentOnline's report are the sentencing remarks. The term is the judgment.
Kent Police reported that Amin Belechguer, 29, of Poynders Gardens in Clapham, London, pleaded guilty and was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, to four years in prison for 21 dangerous-driving offences. The force said he had been charged with 21 counts. The Independent, citing Kent Police, reported a four-year sentence following convictions on 21 counts. The BBC reported he pleaded guilty to 22 counts of dangerous driving and was sentenced to four years that Wednesday. KentOnline reported he pleaded guilty to 22 counts between July 2024 and June 2025, across Kent, Essex, and London. Twenty-one and twenty-two are not the same number of counts. Kent Police, the BBC, and The Independent reported that on release he will be banned from driving for 10 years. KentOnline reported Judge Catherine Moore disqualified him for 11 years and four months. Ten years and 11 years and four months are not the same ban. Kent Police and The Independent reported the motorcycle was forfeited. KentOnline reported a deprivation order for it. KentOnline placed him at Poynders Gardens in Clapham South. Clapham and Clapham South are the two addresses in those accounts.
Kent Police said that at about 10:45 p.m. on June 27, 2025, patrols saw him riding a Kawasaki Ninja H2R along the A20 Ashford Road toward Maidstone without a registration plate. The force said officers on the way to another incident, with lights and sirens on, saw him pull in front, slow down, and wave to goad them into a pursuit. It said they followed him a short distance while he went over 130 mph on a single carriageway with limits between 40 and 60 mph and crossed solid white lines into oncoming traffic on the blind brow of a hill. It said the pursuit was stopped because of the risk, a stinger was deployed farther on, his tires deflated, and he ran into hedges before officers arrested him. The BBC and The Independent reported that account, including the wave. KentOnline's story of the same case said he uploaded videos of himself blowing kisses at pursuing police. A wave and blowing kisses are not the same gesture. Kent Police and The Independent reported the bike seized at the scene had cost about £19,500, and that his phone and a GoPro were seized with it. KentOnline reported the seized machine was a Kawasaki ZX 1000, in a dangerous condition, with a loose chain, glass missing from a wing mirror, and the silencer removed from the exhaust. An H2R bought for about £19,500 and a ZX 1000 described as being in a dangerous condition are two descriptions of the motorcycle taken from him.
Kent Police reported that footage from July 7, 2024, onward showed him riding in Kent, London, and Essex at speeds up to 189 mph, at more than double the limit on motorways and in town centers, undertaking and doing wheelies, failing to stop at red lights, racing at car meets, and riding on a pavement and a pedestrian crossing. The BBC reported the same 189 mph top speed and the same places. The Independent reported the same. KentOnline reported that at the sentencing hearing Judge Catherine Moore was told he had reached 189 mph on one occasion, and that prosecutor Alban Brahimi said, "The defendant has shown an utter disregard for the safety of others and his own," and, "It is fortunate that there are no accidents in his case. His manner of driving would be dangerous in a simulation or movie, let alone real life." KentOnline reported Brahimi described videos of him speeding up and slowing down, weaving, riding one-handed, and looking over his shoulder, and that footage from June 8, 2025, showed 185 mph on the A282, the A2, and the A28. It reported 112 mph in a 50 mph zone on the A406 on July 7, 2024, with undertakes and red lights, more than 140 mph on the A2 at Gravesend and the M2 on Aug. 17, 2024, and speeds over 150 mph in a 50 mph zone and 188 mph in a 70 mph zone, including the M2 London-bound at Junction 6 near Faversham. Those speeds are KentOnline's account of what the court was told. They are not a second sentence.
KentOnline reported Brahimi said there was "really no consideration for other road users," that Belechguer posted the riding online, and that he used the Instagram name MrWoods666, described himself as "the police force's favourite 200mph problem," and had 22,000 followers. It reported defending barrister James Harrison said there was no evidence of how long the ZX 1000 had been in that condition, that removing the silencer would not make it more dangerous, and that there was no evidence the posts caused anyone else to drive dangerously. KentOnline reported Harrison called him a former HGV driver who got "the taste of adrenaline" and "an additional thrill by goading officers," and said he had accepted the consequences. It reported Harrison told the judge, "When one takes a step back, there were no injuries or damage caused; that is an important headline," and that he said Belechguer was formerly of Gillingham. Passing sentence, Judge Moore said, "You arrogantly believed the rules of the road were for other vehicles and not for you," that it was "through sheer luck, not through skill, that no one was injured or killed," and that he "made a conscious decision to ride the way you did," KentOnline reported. It reported she said he had taken responsibility and reflected, and that the offences were "so serious only a custodial sentence can be justified." The four-year term is that sentence. Kent Police quoted investigating officer PC Daniel Goodman saying Belechguer showed no remorse for putting his life and the lives of other road users at risk. In that sentence of the police release, the surname is spelled Beluchguer. The BBC and The Independent spelled Belechguer in the same line. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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