Motorcycle Gangs
Vince Focarelli – alleged leader of the feared New Boys street gang and, briefly, an Adelaide group of Comancheros bikies – had already walked away from three attempts on his life.
It seemed unlikely that those who wished him harm were about to stop trying.
Last weekend, Focarelli’s aura of invincibility was shattered with tragic results. A hail of gunfire left the man himself with a head wound and claimed the life of his son Giovanni, who was just 22.
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At a guess you could probably assume that none of our seven High Court judges lives in Merrylands, in Sydney’s west, where the Nomads and Hells Angels are engaged in what the police reassuringly describe not as a bikie gang war but merely “tit for tat violence”.
It is also unlikely that any of these eminent jurists lives in Northmead, where an innocent woman had her house strafed with bullets while she was sleeping last week in a zany address mix-up by a bikie who was having trouble reading his UBD.
Presumably, none of the judges lives in Adelaide’s north-western suburb of Semaphore where an 11-year-old boy, the son of a former member of the Finks, was shot in the leg while he slept during a home invasion last month.
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Gutter says:
Now a lot of these comments are reasonable (if uneducated) but this gem from Pete is just plain funny “Terrorists and Bikie Gangs have something in common, do they not? They are criminals who kill and harm people. Jews, Socialists, Communists do not.” Jews don’t kill people really? you should… Read more »
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Michael says:
“Bikie” is not really an acurate term for these organised criminal gangs, it is my understanding that a considerable number of them do not even own motorcycles. They are not “bikies”, they are criminals. The problem with the knee jerk laws (in my opinion) was that they focus on the… Read more »
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