Bikie gang members’ death toll increases as carnage continues

ESCALATING turf wars, internal infighting and brazen revenge has resulted in a bikie murder massacre that has claimed at least half a dozen lives in the past two years.

The final moments of Ricky Ciano whose body was found in a vehicle in the state's Central Tablelands on Valentine’s Day.

ESCALATING turf wars, internal infighting and brazen revenge has resulted in a bikie murder massacre that has claimed at least half a dozen lives in the past two years.

In February this year, Ricky Ciano, 35, was found dead in the back of a white BMW on a lonely stretch of road near Oberon in the state’s central west.

The final moments of Ricky Ciano whose body was found in a vehicle in the state's Central Tablelands on Valentine’s Day.

Ciano was the latest of five Rebel’s gang members killed or found dead as they tried to, or had left, the nation’s largest bikie gang.

Several others have been bashed to within an inch of their lives. The motives for the murders and attacks are murky — some wanted out, others had internal fights or had upset rival drugs dealers and gangs.

A number of Rebels have fled Sydney for the Gold Coast, such as Ciano, who supposedly quit the gang to go straight in Queensland.

Many have homes in Sydney and the Gold Coast, with high profile members believing its safer on the Gold Coast than in Sydney, where there friends seem to be dying more frequently.

Ciano was a former member of the Rebel's Sydney chapter.

Ciano’s former pals, Rebels bosses Michael Davey and Mark Easter, along with another Sergeant at Arms for the Picton chapter, Darren Wallace, have all been murdered.

Wallace’s killer, Tevita Daunibau another Rebel who wanted to quit, killed himself after shooting Wallace dead.

The Rebels don’t take kindly to members leaving making them hand in their colours, motor bikes and have tattoos removed.

Exit payments of thousands of dollars as well as beatings are also matter-of-course for anyone daring to leave the fold.

NSW Gangs Squad boss Detective Superintendent Debbie Wallace said bikies had no loyalties when members wanted to leave.

“It may seem romantic to join some sort of brotherhood but if you want to leave it comes at a significant cost — personal, financial and physical. Tattoos have to be removed and possession handed over including cash. Beatings are not uncommon and that violence can lead to deaths,’’ she said.

THE BIKIE DEATH TOLL

Slain Rebel Bikie Michael Davey, also known as 'Ruthless', was killed in Kingswood.

MICHAEL DAVEY

Jailed for manslaughter at 17 years old, Davey’s underworld life finally caught up to him at age 30. The Rebels bikie got a call on his mobile in March last year, telling him to go outside where he was shot dead on the driveway of his western Sydney home.

Rebels sergeant of arms, Mark Easter murdered in 2015.

MARK EASTER

A Rebels sergeant of arms, Easter was executed and his body dumped in bushland north of Sydney in June 2015.

Police believe he was held captive for days before being shot repeatedly in the head to end the ordeal. Council security cameras captured a white van allegedly dumping the body.

Bikie enforcer Ricky Ciano may have been given a drug ‘hot shot’.

RICKY CIANO

A former high-ranking Rebels enforcer, C iano was found dead in his luxury $130,000 BMW in suspicious circumstances in February.

He thought he had managed to leave the gang in 2015, when he had his club tattoo removed. There was an attempt on his life on the Central Coast a short time later.

Ciano’s car and body were found on a secluded road in Duckmaloi, near Oberon in the state’s central west.

Darren Wallace, senior member of Rebels bikie gang, shot dead in 2015.

DARREN WALLACE and TEVITA DAUNIBAU

In a chilling murder suicide, Daunibau calmly shot Darren Wallace, a fellow Rebel and a sergeant of arms, following a tense argument in Picton.

Daunibau then walked to a nearby creek where he turned the weapon on himself.

It is believed the row escalated when one of the men tried to “patch out” of the club.

CCTV footage of Tevita Daunibau, who killed Rebels bikie Darren Wallace.

KEMEL BARAKAT

Barakat, also known as “Blackie’’, was a suspect in the murder of a well-known gangster and hitman Hamad Assaad. He had strong links to the Hells Angels bikie gang and was known to be friends of former Sydney Hells Angels Boss Felix Lyle.