He had no idea they were there??? FFS thats not helping his case at all is it lol. Poor dude he can ride the **** outta his bike but he's not the smartest cookie in the jar is he.
Because Im bored I'll go all Columbo on this an show you these pictures lol.
This is the entrance to the garage where the police car will have been (and often are) positioned, note the telegraph pole to the left of the image no visual obstructions are between that and the front of the footpath because the entrance into the best western has a slip road giving full visibility back down to the roundabout.
A plan of where the police car will have been in relation to the round about
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IMO any rider should have given some notice to the entrances/exit to the hotel, in which case they would look directly towards the police car even if only for a moment. So it was there for him to see but his observations let him down... not the sort of failure to observe you should be making a habit of if you get your kicks doing +100mph wheelies.
Another observation of mine is the sweep of the police camera, he's filming the bike before the bike reaches the car then sweeps all the way round to the left and sights the rider a long way down the A63, another suggestion that the police officer (some 3feet behind the front of his bonnet) is positioned so that he can turn a full 90 without loosing sight of the rider and therefore must be further forward than the wall/fencing surrounding the garage.
Im not saying the police Havant been harsh, I agree with YC the sentencing is far from fair where traffic convictions are concerned but if you're going to do stuff like this, you haven't got a leg to stand on if your defence is "I know what was around me and it was safe to execute"... yet you failed to notice a batten burg and chevron marked police car parked less than 20ft from where you started the stunt.