Wanted bikie Kyle Lloyd Pryde arrested in Queensland over murder of Jason De Ieso
After six weeks on the run, a high-profile Hells Angels bikie has been arrested interstate and is expected to be charged with the cold-case murder of Jason De Ieso.
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Police have arrested a seventh man over the murder of panel beater Jason De Ieso after a six-week manhunt.
Kyle Lloyd Pryde, 31, handed himself in to Queensland Police in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Pryde will appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday, when SA Police Major Crime detectives will seek his extradition to South Australia.
A warrant for the arrest of Pryde was taken out in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on August 26 and he was publicly identified as a suspect on September 11.
Detectives were uncertain if Pryde, who lived at Newton, had fled SA or sought refuge from underworld associates.
Pryde has been a high-profile member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club North Crew since about 2011. Police are still seeking two more men over the murder.
Five men — brothers Musa Ali Alzuain, Husain Ali Alzuain, Mohamed Ali Alzuain, and Ross William Montgomery and Daniel Mark Jalleh — are each charged with Mr De Ieso’s murder.
A sixth man — Jake Byron Martin-Herde, 31, of Salisbury Downs — is charged with one count of assisting an offender over the murder.
Prosecutors withdrew a charge of assisting an offender against a 26-year-old Reynella woman, whose identity remains suppressed. None of the accused have entered pleas.
Mr De Ieso, 33, was shot dead in his Pooraka workshop, Unique Custom Paint and Panel, on November 21, 2012.
CCTV footage from the workshop, previously released by police, shows nine men walking towards the front of the business on the day he was shot.
Police allege each of the men charged with murder are all current or former members or associates of the Hells Angels.
They further allege Mr De Ieso was an innocent bystander and the shooting was the culmination of an escalating feud between the Hells Angels North Crew and Finks bikies.
Mr De Ieso was not a bikie but was friends with a man connected to the Finks.
Police previously said at least six of the men were carrying guns and that they were hoping to make further arrests.
In an emotional video released in August, Mr De Ieso’s parents, Giovanna and Sam De Ieso, described their son as a keen athlete in his younger years who loved fishing.
“It’s always with us, it never goes away and I don’t know why we have to go through this,” Mrs De Ieso said.
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