Outlaw bikie Shane Bowden kicked out of the Mongols
After making a flashy exit from prison and attempting to reasserting his power within the gang, Shane Bowden has been kicked out of the Mongols.
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Outlaw bikie Shane Bowden has been kicked out of the Mongols motorcycle gang.
The 47-year-old was targeted in a drive-by shooting on July 1, which is suspected to have been an inside job.
Bowden, who had been released from a five-year jail stint just 15 days earlier, was reasserting his power within the gang which is believed to have caused internal ructions.
The Sunday Herald Sun understands Bowden had been speaking with an associate before shots were fired into his driveway in Epping from a car, hitting him in the lower body.
Bowden discharged himself from hospital soon after the attack.
Two unknown assailants have since been on the run.
A motive for the attack remains under investigation, but it is not uncommon for fallouts to occur when senior bikie members, such as Bowden, return to gangs following long prison stints.
During his imprisonment, high ranking members close to Bowden were exiled from the club in New South Wales and Queensland.
It can be revealed NSW-based national Mongols president Mark “Ferret’’ Moroney was among those ousted from the club.
Bowden, who is believed to be close to Moroney – an outspoken Mongol who would make statements to the media – is believed to have been upset at Victorian members who played a role in his departure.
Any signs of internal feuding within the club were well masked when Bowden emerged from Loddon Prison, near Castlemaine, last month.
Bowden was picked up in a stretch limousine and given a Mongol escort to Melbourne.
The prominent served time behind bars after he was convicted over a violent aggravated burglary in South Yarra in 2015.
He burst into the property wearing night vision goggles with fitness model Janet ‘Aysen’ Campbell and attacked two people inside.
Bowden was already well known to law enforcement.
The prominent bikie figure made national headlines in 2006 when he shot Christopher Wayne Hudson over his defection to the rival Hells Angels.
Bowden was already well known to law enforcement.
The prominent bikie figure made national headlines in 2006 when he shot Christopher Wayne Hudson over his defection to the rival Hells Angels.
Bowden, then a Fink, fired at Hudson at a kickboxing tournament in Queensland after it erupted into a wild brawl between gang members.
It became known as the ‘’Ballroom Blitz’’.
The following year Hudson, fuelled on ice, would shoot three people in Melbourne’s CBD.
Bowden’s time as a Mongol began when a majority of Finks members nationwide ‘’patched over’’ to the international gang in 2013.
The Mongols established a foothold in Melbourne after opening a clubhouse in a Port Melbourne factory.
The club has had several internal fracas since.
It’s most notorious member is Toby Mitchell, a longtime friend of Bowden’s, who joined the club in 2019.
BANDIDOS OUST NATIONAL PRESIDENT
The Bandidos have ousted their national president, Jason Addison.
The Sunday Herald Sun has been told Addison, a stonemason from the Victorian town of Echuca, was suddenly deposed in favour of a Sydney boss known as ‘’Big Tony’’.
The reasons for Addison being dumped, which the Sunday Herald Sun believes occurred about a month ago, are not clear.
Addison had been the Bandidos’ national president for about two decades, a rarity in the outlaw motorcycle gang world.
It is not known whether his sons, also Bandidos bikies, remain in the club.
Addison, 56, has for the most part kept a low-profile as the gang’s highest ranking member. It has been an anomaly that he ran the large club from a country town.
In recent years he has had several court matters including contesting a NSW police imposed firearms ban.
He lost his fight when a Sydney tribunal found he was not a fit and proper person to have a firearms licence.
His Bandidos presidency and his criminal record for drug offences were used as reasons to ban him acquiring, possessing or using a firearm.
Addison controversially argued that the state’s police chief should also be banned from owning a firearm because some of his members were also convicted of crimes.
In 2015, Addison was found not guilty of extorting a former Bandidos member, who it was alleged was forced to hand over his motorcycle, family home and marble business to the bikie boss.
It was not the first time Addison gained possession of an exiled members’ motorcycle, which is often the price of being ousted from a club in ‘’bad standing’’.
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Originally published as Outlaw bikie Shane Bowden kicked out of the Mongols