AILING BIKER WITH FAMILY TIES CAN'T SWAY JUDGE PETER SMALL COURTS BUREAU

Brian Jeffrey used to boast about how pure the cocaine was that he handed
over to buyers at GTA Home Depot and Tim Hortons parking lots.

Little did he know that Steven Gault, the fellow full-patch Hells Angels
member to whom he sold $135,000 worth of the drug in 2006, was actually a
paid police agent wearing a body pack.

He told Gault, in one secretly recorded talk, that he had just built a
$500,000 home near Georgian Bay and that he had avoided a risky deal
because "I'm 50 years old, man. I don't want to f---ing stay in jail for
the next 10 or 15 years."

But yesterday, at a hearing attended by family, friends and Hells Angels
members, Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon sentenced the ailing
tow truck supervisor to nine years in prison, less six months for
pre-trial custody and his stringent bail conditions.

Jeffrey's wife cried out in anger at the result.

"Do you think I can see him before you take him away for 10 years?" she
angrily asked the court officers as they led away her handcuffed husband,
who walks with a cane.

Despite his credentials as a good family man with a dated criminal record,
a lifetime of steady employment and contributions as a father figure to an
abused 11-year-old girl, the fact that Jeffrey sold cocaine was certain to
"cause havoc" in other families, the judge said.

Last fall, Jeffrey, the sergeant-at-arms of the Simcoe Chapter of the
Hells Angels, pleaded guilty to trafficking four kilograms of cocaine,
with a purity of 88 to 91 per cent, but adamantly denied that his biker
club is a criminal organization.

The judge found otherwise, and on that basis yesterday tacked 3 1/2 years
onto what would have otherwise been a 5 1/2-year sentence.

"It was a good day for the Crown and police," prosecutor Tom Andreopoulos
said outside court.

Jeffrey portrayed himself as a benign family man, but he is not, just as
the Hells Angels are not "good ol' boy motorcycle enthusiasts,"
Andreopoulos said.

Jeffrey will likely have to serve two-thirds of his sentence before he is
paroled, Andreopoulos said.