"He's involved himself with speedway, but primarily he's trying to assist this group of young people and keeping them in that pro-social environment. Keeping them away from alcohol, and drugs and crime and gangs.
"He's very proud of it and very focused on it. And for me it means not having to be standing up for them in the next eight years."
Judge Northwood noted the irony that selling meth had been his entry into the speedway, and he was now staying to help prevent youths from following his path into drug use and gangs.
"It does impress me that you are open with this stock car organisation," he said.
"I trust they're not being foolish as far as their connection with you is concerned.
"You're now trying to turn people away from where you are now…"
Morehu was sentenced to seven months' home detention in the Palmerston North District Court today.
He's the latest to be sentenced as part of Operation Buckle which saw 13 people arrested for their involvement in a Hell's Angels meth ring, which police busted two years ago.
They're facing charges including manufacturing methamphetamine, conspiracy to deal methamphetamine, possession of class A drugs, possession for supply of methamphetamine, cultivation of cannabis, and unlawful possession of firearms.
As part of the operation 16 properties were raided across Palmerston North, rural Manawatu, Whanganui, Auckland, and the Bay of Plenty resulting in two methamphetamine labs being shut down.
Police also seized a stolen 2.6-tonne digger valued at $35,000, four high-end cars, six custom Harley Davidson Motorbikes, as well as cash, and a range of drugs including cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, and cannabis.
Also sentenced today as part of the same ring was Katrina Payne, who received nine months' home detention.
Payne bought a total of two ounces of methamphetamine from senior Hell's Angels members and then on-sold the product in smaller quantities.
Judge Northwood said she was in part selling the drug to fund her own use.
"I read how you and your partner were given meth to try and things snowballed from there. This situation is not unique.
"Clearly you had fallen upon hard times."
He said Payne had previously owned a hair salon and was motivated to return to a normal life.
"You're motivated, you should succeed. We don't want to see you here again."
