By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia
04:56 17 May 2023, updated 04:56 17 May 2023
- One was ‘key member’ of Alameddine gang, police allege
- Alahmad brothers organised a race between cars
An alleged Alameddine gang associate and his younger brother have been sentenced after being caught driving at 253km/h in a western Sydney street race.
Asaad Alahmad, 29 – who police allege was a ‘key member’ of the Alameddine gang – and his co-accused, cafe owner brother Adam Alahmad, 27, were caught racing on the M4 motorway in Homebush on February 9, 2022.
The pair pleaded guilty to organising/promoting a race between cars, and Adam also pleaded guilty to failing to give information about identification.
Facts stated they were driving home from the city when they decided to race, and that they got to at least 253km/h in a 90km/h zone.
Adam was fined $5,800 and banned from holding a license for 15 months, while Asaad was fined $5,200 with an 18 month driver’s license ban.
Magistrate Stephen Barlow said the offences were punishable only by fines and so limited how he could penalise the brothers, the Daily Telegraph reported.
‘You associate that kind of speed with F1 racing. They’re lucky to be alive,’ he said.
‘I’ve seen that at Mount Panorama in Bathurst – but on the M4 is beyond belief.’
Mr Barlow added the brothers had shown ‘an utter abandonment of any sense of compliance with law and safety’.
Asaad’s criminal record involved drug matters and he also had a ‘poor traffic record’, the court heard.
Lawyer Abdulrahim Saddik, who represented both brothers, said Adam was an ‘exemplary member of the community’ and that the offence ‘was the worst decision and lapse of judgment of his entire life’.
Adam is a former school captain who is a co-owner of the Percy Plunkett cafe in Penrith, where he’s known to give food to homeless people, the court was told.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that Adam, who had 12 previous speeding offences, is connected with the Alameddine gang.