Self-described 'evil' man avoids jail for wire traps on bike path
The cycling path along Adelaide's Southern Expressway near where the four riders were thrown from their bikes in two separate incidents. (Supplied: SA Police)
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Levi Young-Henderson has received suspended sentence for stringing wire across a bike path and injuring several cyclists in 2025.
The court previously heard police found video footage on his mobile phone of the wire accompanied by a devil emoji.
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Young-Henderson was sentenced to 11 months and five days but entered into a good behaviour bond and will not be put behind bars.
An Adelaide man who labelled himself "so-evil" after setting up wire traps along a bike path and injuring cyclists has avoided jail.
Noarlunga Downs resident Levi Michael Young-Henderson, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of acting likely to cause harm and four counts of damaging property in relation to actions in January, 2025.
He was previously facing the more serious charges of acting likely to cause serious harm.
The court heard Levi Young-Henderson handed himself in to police and identified himself as the man depicted in CCTV footage. (SA Police)
Young-Henderson was given a suspended sentence in Christies Beach Magistrates Court today.
The court previously heard that Young-Henderson, who had a job as a fencing worker, had strung wire across the bike path that runs alongside the Southern Expressway, at Hackham West, on January 10 and 13, 2025.
The court was told that police had obtained footage from his mobile phone of the wire, accompanied by an "emoji of a devil and the words 'I'm so evil' written underneath the video".
The court also heard that in the first incident three male cyclists were "knocked off their bikes while travelling at approximately 35km/h" and sustained "severe grazing". All three bikes were "destroyed".
Wire that was deliberately stretched across the bike path along the Southern Expressway in Adelaide's south. (Supplied: Morgan Billings)
The court also heard that in the second incident a female rider escaped injury, but the handlebars of her bike were damaged.
"We say this is a significant matter. It's serious, it's placed a number of members of the public at risk of serious harm and the defendant's actions have caused [damage] in excess of … $50,000 worth of bikes, when they were bought," the prosecutor said at the time.
Young-Henderson's total sentence came to 11 months and five days behind bars, but was suspended upon him entering a bond of good behaviour for two years.
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