Thomas O’Connor, Thomas Patterson, Lilli Trenerry pleaded not guilty to alleged Salisbury North drive-by shooting
Three ex-Hells Angels and a girlfriend have pleaded not guilty over a “revenge” drive-by shooting where the wrong house was hit and an accused shot.
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Three of the people accused of a drive-by shooting where the wrong house was targeted in an intended act of revenge will go to trial.
Former Hells Angels OMCG members, Thomas Mortiz O’Connor, 31, and Thomas Wilshire Patterson, 28, are charged with firing shots at a Salisbury North house.
O’Connor’s girlfriend, Natalie Marie Pilkington, 27, who was shot during the alleged incident and Patterson’s girlfriend, Lilli Mae Trenerry, 27, are also accused of being involved in the mistaken shooting.
In the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday, Trenerry, of Morphett Vale, and Patterson, of Brahma Lodge, pleaded not guilty to discharging a firearm to injure, annoy or frighten a person.
O’Connor, of Mile End, had also pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing to the same charge.
Patterson and O’Connor are currently in custody, while Pilkington and Trenerry are on bail.
During O’Connor’s bail application in February, the court heard that three shots from a .38 calibre firearm were fired at a Salisbury North property on November 26 2020.
The court heard Trenerry allegedly orchestrated the group to take revenge for her brother.
“She’s taken it upon herself to form a group to take revenge on this man who has been having a relationship with her brother’s partner,” the prosecutor said.
They told the court that, despite CCTV footage showing the four co-accused at the address of the intended victim originally, they “made a mistake” and moved on to another house where the alleged shooting took place.
The court heard CCTV footage shows O’Connor, Pilkington and Trenerry at the Lyell McEwin Hospital shortly after the alleged shooting, where Pilkington was treated for a gunshot wound to her thigh.
“O’Connor says they were walking when a black car drove past and fired shots at them, one of which hit Pilkington in the hip,” the prosecutor said.
The court heard both O’Connor and Patterson had left the Hells Angels since the alleged incident.
In the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday, Andrew Moffa for Pilkington, asked that her charge be listed for no case to answer submissions.
Mr Moffa said Pilkington had not been involved in the alleged shooting.
“There was no knowledge on our part,” he said.
Magistrate John Wells adjourned the charges until January, where Patterson, Trenerry and O’Connor will face the District Court.
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