An irate grandfather lashed out at the justice system in Magistrates? Court yesterday after his grandson was fined $1,000 and disqualified from riding all motorcycles for three years for speeding at 95 kilometres per hour.

Rockel Evans, 17, of Clover Hill Road, Devonshire, pleaded not guilty, claiming that he was not the person riding the motorcycle when it was stopped by Police at 3 a.m. on July 31, 2004.

However, two Police officers identified Evans in court and explained how they had caught him as he was speeding along North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish.

P.c. Andrew Exell said he aimed a speed detection device at the cycle?s headlight which determined that the bike was travelling at 95 kph, or almost 60 mph. He then relayed the information to P.c. Shannon Lawrence.

P.c. Lawrence told Acting Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that he stopped the Yamaha DT 50 near Burchall Cove.

Evans, who was defending himself, asked P.c. Lawrence how he could prove it was him.

P.c. Lawrence told Mr. Tokunbo: ?Because he produced his driver?s licence and I remember him.?

Evans claimed he had been asleep at home at the time and said a friend had borrowed his cycle.

Questioned by Crown counsel Nicole Smith, Evans denied that he had made up the story, adding that he did not know how his friend had ?got his licence?.

Ms Smith told the court that Evans had two previous convictions and Mr. Tokunbo said he felt Evans had committed the offence and fined him $1,000 and disqualified him from all motorcycles for three years.

As Mr. Tokunbo made notes, the teenager?s grandfather, Howard Lee, stood up in court.

?We have other people on the road riding at 100 kph and you?re not going after those guys,? he said.

Visibly upset, Mr. Lee added that his grandson?s sentence was ?not realistic here in Bermuda?. He said it would be appealed.