{"id":903606,"date":"2026-09-24T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903606\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:22:14","slug":"levi-young-henderson-avoids-jail-for-setting-up-wire-traps-on-adelaide-bike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903606\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi Young-Henderson avoids jail for setting up wire traps on Adelaide bike path"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Adelaide man who labelled himself “so-evil” after setting up wire traps along a bike path and injuring cyclists has avoided jail.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He was previously facing the more serious charges of acting likely to cause serious harm.<\/p>\n

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The court heard Levi Young-Henderson handed himself in to police and identified himself as the man depicted in CCTV footage.\u00a0 (SA Police)<\/p>\n

Young-Henderson was given a suspended sentence in Christies Beach Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n

The court previously heard that Young-Henderson, who had a job as a fencing worker, had strung wire across the bike path<\/a> that runs alongside the Southern Expressway, at Hackham West, on January 10 and 13, 2025.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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Wire that was deliberately stretched across the bike path along the Southern Expressway in Adelaide’s south. (Supplied: Morgan Billings)<\/p>\n

The court also heard that in the second incident a female rider escaped injury, but the handlebars of her bike were damaged.<\/p>\n

“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 \u2026 $50,000 worth of bikes, when they were bought,” the prosecutor said at the time.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Adelaide man who labelled himself “so-evil” after setting up wire traps along a bike path and injuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289830,471818,471822,471817,471815,43,471820,471819,44,471821,41,39,42,40,471816],"class_list":["post-903606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bicycle-accidents","tag-bike-damage","tag-christies-beach-magistrates-court","tag-cyclist-accidents","tag-cyclist-sabotage","tag-headlines","tag-levi-henderson","tag-levi-michael-young-henderson","tag-news","tag-southern-expressway-bike-track","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wire-traps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}