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Speeding home for his court-mandated curfew, Muhammad Hamza Amin got slapped with another charge: dangerous driving.

The 26-year-old was clocked going 180 kilometres per hour on Highway 41 near Aberdeen last December, a Saskatoon provincial court judge heard on Wednesday. The posted speed limit on the highway is 100 km/hr.

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Court heard RCMP laid the dangerous driving charge partly because Amin has a record of “excessive speeding.” He isn’t getting the message from traffic safety court, prosecutor Thomas Macnab said.

Amin pleaded guilty and was fined $1,450 after Judge Morris Baniak accepted the jointly submitted sentence from the Crown and defence.

The criminal conviction has got through to him, Amin’s lawyer, Lisa Watson, said in her submissions, adding her client will be further punished when SGI suspends his licence.

“Just because you have a car with a lot of power doesn’t mean you can drive however you want,” Baniak told Amin. He warned that the proverbial hammer will come down if Amin is ever before the court with another dangerous driving charge.

He was also given a nine-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to uttering a death threat to a bouncer outside a Saskatoon nightclub. On the night he was caught speeding, Amin was breaching his curfew — a recognizance condition stemming from the threats charge.

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