New bikie gang linked to western Sydney drive-by shootings

A 24-YEAR-OLD woman with ties to the Notorious bikie gang has been charged in relation to two drive-by shootings in Sydney's west, it has emerged.

A WOMAN associated with the Notorious outlaw motorcycle gang has been charged in relation to two drive-by shootings in Sydney's west.

Six people including a baby were in a house on Indigo Way, Prospect, when shots were fired at the property about 12.10am yesterday.

No one in the house was injured.

Minutes earlier, two pensioners inside a home on Taworri Rd, Doonside, escaped injury when the house was hit by a spray of gunfire.

Detectives investigating the drive-by shootings yesterday arrested a woman in a car in Leigh St, Guildford West, about 7pm after finding a revolver in her handbag.

Police believe she has ties with the Notorious gang.

The 24-year-old Prospect woman was taken to Merrylands police station and charged with possessing a firearm.

She is due to appear at Fairfield Local Court today.

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Meanwhile, the Kings Cross-based Notorious are embroiled in a gang war with the Hell's Angels and Rebels over ethnic and territorial disputes.

Neighbours in Taworri Rd said yesterday the home at the centre of the drive-by had been raided by police about a year ago.

But the elderly couple at the home during the drive-by said the shooting was a case of mistaken identity.

"I heard this bang, bang, bang more than I could count and I thought that it was an electrical problem with an appliance, maybe the stove," the 64-year-old man said.

"Then I felt pain in my leg and it was glass from the windows.

"(The room) was filled with haze, smoke. I've never experienced anything like this before."

His 63-year-old wife escaped being shot in the head by about 15cm.

"If I had sat up in bed I would have been killed," she said.

The Range Rover believed to have been used in the shootings - stolen from Waterloo on March 7 - was found burning in Blacktown.

Premier Nathan Rees said yesterday he would consider changing the law to help police catch and prosecute people involved in drive-by shootings.

Source: The Daily Telegraph