Heavyweight bikie’s mysterious sudden split with Hells Angels
Hewat was one of the Hells Angels’ longest-serving and most notorious members. Mystery surrounds his split from the club. This is what we know.
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Heavyweight bikie Peter “Skitzo” Hewat has split with the Hells Angels.
Hewat, one of the Angels’ longest-serving and most notorious members, is a former enforcer for the feared outlaw motorcycle gang.
It is understood the split happened late last year but the reasons behind it are unclear.
Hewat is a former sergeant-at-arms with the club’s East County chapter in Melbourne’s outer north.
The 69-year-old remains active in the heavy haulage towing industry.
There has been talk that Hewat has been in ill health recently.
In July 2023, Hewat was allegedly shot at after a wild break-in at his Technical Drive, Craigieburn, yard.
He was alerted by a security system in the early hours as thieves stole two of his Kenworth trucks.
Hewat used GPS tracking technology to chase one of the rigs to Rosehill Boulevard in Mickleham.
It was alleged two shots were then fired at the bikie.
Hewat has had many other scrapes over the decades, most of them with the police.
He was a target of Victoria Police’s anti-bikie Echo taskforce following its formation to zero in on bikie gangs in 2011.
In 2013 “Skitzo” made headlines after punching a grandmother who had found his lost Shih tzu terrier.
The 64-year-old woman was struck in the face, threatened and soon after was being intimidated by more bikies on her doorstep.
Hewat had become riled after the woman demanded an ungrateful Hewat show proof of ownership of the pooch.
The altercation landed him in jail.
A police officer with knowledge of the bikie scene said Hewat represented an “old school” faction of the Hells Angels which was being pushed out.
“I’d describe him as a bully that used his club and the power of his patch to stand over and intimidate people, especially those in the heavy haulage industry,” he said.
“He was an old school bikie who would be one of the most powerful and influential Hells Angels for several decades.”
A change in membership and culture within the outlaw motorcycle gang has emerged over the past decade.
“There was a divide between him and his old school cohort and the new breed and the way the club was being run,” the officer said.
“The membership changed and the landscape shifted for the more traditional bikies.
“By now Hewat would probably be a life member and he would have unqualified support,” he said.
But the officer says if Hewat had been forced out he loses the support of the most notorious bikie gang in the world.
“His life of crime could just come to an end,” he said.
“And Hewat would have made some enemies over his time.”
The Hells Angels’ East County chapter, in Campbellfield, has existed in the neighbouring suburb to the club’s more notorious Nomads chapter in Thomastown.
The emergence of its Darkside chapter has also affected the direction of the gang.
Hewat is the second veteran to leave the Angels in the past 15 months.
Senior member Luke Moloney quit in late 2023.
As a senior figure of the gang, Hewat would have been privy to some of its most highly-guarded secrets.
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