A Napier man was yesterday sentenced to 22 months' jail for a go-kart race-track burglary which included a machine raced by the son of champion V8s driver Greg Murphy.
Craig Jenson Kent, 30, had originally denied burgling the Kartsport Hawke's Bay facilities at Roy's Hill in which six karts and the Murphy family's customised trailer were taken in the first of two burglaries at the raceway near Hastings in July 2015.
However he pleaded guilty on the day a trial was set to start last month and yesterday became the second man jailed for the raid.
Judge Thorburn summarised Kent had worked alongside his co-offender, Dyllan John Henderson, on July 25 2015 to break into the go-kart club and "help themselves to karts and opportunistically anything else that caught their fancy".
The stolen karts were later found at a Bay View property by police searching for a man wanted on a warrant.