Vigilante biker’s murky past

A vigilante motorcyclist who films other bikers speeding is an ex-lag with a string of previous driving convictions, MCN can reveal.

We recently revealed how busybody Geoff Smith, 62, spends his days riding precisely on the speed limit while filming with a helmet camera and hands footage of riders who overtake to police.

But the oddball has a long list of convictions of his own, including driving without a licence, MoT, or insurance – and speeding.

Most bizarrely, he was once jailed for stealing donations to a private ambulance charity – which he’d set up so he could live out his fantasy of riding with flashing lights and a siren.

It also seems Smith hasn’t been entirely truthful about his life now. He had claimed to be a riding instructor but now admits he is not. Despite the ‘CBT’ stickers on his bike, he is not a qualified CBT instructor. 

Smith was given a six-month jail sentence suspended to three in 2001 for stealing £1,800 donated to Solent Ambulance Service plus a Triumph Trophy on loan to the charity.

The charity’s function was to deliver organs to hospitals. But a police officer who caught Smith driving without a licence in a car done up to look like an ambulance said: “The only organ he could transport is some liver from the butcher’s.”

Confronted over his past, Smith claimed Solent Ambulance Service had done a “proper and professional job” of delivering organs and tissue to London hospitals. He claimed an accountant had incorrectly advised him he could take some of the donations.

He said: “I have no regrets about doing what I did, helping to save people’s lives.”
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