How SA police built a case against Hells Angels arrested over the 2012 shooting murder of Pooraka panel beater Jason De Ieso
Police investigating the murder of Jason De Ieso trawled through hundreds of hours of CCTV footage to build a case against the Hells Angels charged last Friday over the 2012 killing.
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Meticulous detective work by the secret taskforce investigating the cold-case murder of Jason De Ieso precisely reconstructed the movements of the Hells Angels bikies charged with killing him.
Taskforce Alpha detectives reviewed hundreds of hours of CCTV, dashcam and surveillance vision that police will allege provided vital evidence of the men’s activities before and after the brutal murder.
Significantly, detectives say a maisonette at Parafield Gardens was used as a “staging point’’ by nine current and former Hells Angels bikies just before the murder.
Detectives on Friday charged five of the nine men with Mr De Ieso’s murder and a woman, who was arrested on the Gold Coast and extradited to Adelaide on Saturday, with assisting an offender. They are expected to appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday
A further three men are still the subject of investigations and further arrests are likely. Supt Bray said an associate of the group refuelled one of the cars – a white Nissan Pulsar sedan – used in the crime at the Salisbury Highway BP station at Parafield Gardens at 1.02pm on November 11, 2012.
“He was with the car but what his role was in this remains to be seen,’’ he said.
Just five minutes later, at 1.07pm, the Pulsar sedan was captured on CCTV in front of a maisonette at 501A Salisbury Highway, Parafield Gardens, which was occupied by one of the charged men at that time. The current occupants have no link to the crime.
Detectives allege the house was used as a staging point for the nine men before they travelled to the Lords of Ink tattoo parlour on Diment Rd, Salisbury North, where numerous people were assaulted and property damaged before leaving. The men then travelled to Mr De Ieso’s panel-beating workshop on Langford St, Pooraka.
A second vehicle – a white Mazda sedan – was also used, with both vehicles captured on CCTV at several points travelling in convoy to that destination.
Police will allege when the two vehicles arrived at Langford St, they parked several businesses away from the workshop. Detectives will allege the nine men then entered the workshop at 1.43pm with at least six of them opening fire with handguns.
Police said the group were expecting to find Finks’ member Charlie Bonnici inside but he had left 10 minutes earlier. Mr De Ieso was killed instantly when he was shot in the head.
After the shooting, the two vehicles split up, with the Pulsar travelling to an unknown location. It would be recovered by police almost three weeks later at an industrial premises on Churchill Rd, Cavan.
Detectives tracked the Mazda, accompanied by a dark-coloured Commodore driven by the woman who has been charged with helping the offenders, to Kangarilla, where it was then set alight about 4.45pm to destroy evidence.
“A witness saw the two cars travelling at high speed along a dirt road at Kangarilla and only the Commodore returned,’’ Supt Bray said.
“There may be others who saw this activity when the Mazda was burned late that afternoon and we would also like to speak with them.’’
Anyone with any information on the Parafield Gardens maisonette or who may have been in the northern suburbs and have dashcam vision from that day should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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