Bikie Michael Odisho's tattoos celebrated guns, and now he's gunned down

THE Brothers For Life member shot on Sunday, Michael Odisho, had a range of markings celebrating weaponry, crime and retaliation.

THE motive for shooting Brothers for Life member Michael Odisho could well be tattooed on his back.

Retribution, guns and crime scenes feature heavily on the 27-year-old's back.

And at 11.15pm on Sunday, he was shot in the thigh and arms - gunned down in front of his mother at their Winston Hills home in western Sydney.

A gang member from a young age, first in the Assyrian Kings and now Brothers for Life, police suspect Odisho could be the victim of an internal dispute between members of the vicious crime gang.

Michael Odisho's tattooed back.

MAN GUNNED DOWN IN FRONT OF HIS MOTHER

"They fight among themselves all the time," said one investigator.

The shooting came just days after fellow gang member Mahmoud Hamzy, 25, was shot dead by three gunmen inside the garage of his home at Revesby Heights.

Police are looking at links between Odisho and Hamzy as well as others in the Brothers for Life group founded by multiple murderer and drug dealer Bassam Hamzy - who is now serving life in Goulburn's Supermax jail.

Police say Odisho is known to them and had obviously made enemies.

"But the Brothers for Life are always fighting each other and (they) use guns to settle most things,'' a police investigator said.

The tattooed neck of Michael Odisho.

About four years ago, Odisho was identified in a coronial inquest as a person of interest in a wild shooting at a Sydney cafe in 2005.

Ramon Khananyah, 29, was an innocent bystander gunned down as he stood outside the Babylon Cafe at Fairfield. Three three masked gunmen sprayed about 20 rounds from semi-automatic weapons into the crowded cafe, killing Mr Khananyah and injuring three others.

While Odisho and a number of others were called and named as person of interests during the inquest, so far no one has ever been charged for the murder.

On Sunday night Odisho's mother Loretta was inside the home at the time of the shooting and received minor injuries from shattered glass caused by the bullets.

Her son is currently in Westmead hospital.

"The injured person is not being as co-operative as we would like,'' Parramatta Superintendent Robert Redfern said.

"He is receiving medical treatment and we will attempt to interview him again."

A few hours after Odisho was gunned down, a number of shots were fired into a home at Rouse Hill.

Police do not believe that shooting was linked to the Brothers for Life attack, but the house has been linked to a Hells Angel nominee.

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THE boss of the Nomads will today launch a legal fight to crush a consorting law that stops outlaw bikie gang members from associating with each other.

Lawyers for Nomad boss, Sleiman Tajjour, are challenging the consorting laws in the NSW Court of Appeal, claiming they are a violation of the basic human right to freedom of association.

Four members of the Nomads including Tajjour, Jamie Zammit, Justin Hawthorne, and David Brannan were the first to be charged under the laws introduced by the state government in April last year after a spate of gun crime throughout Sydney.

Section 93X of the Crimes Act prohibits anyone associating with known criminals in person, on the phone, email or even on Facebook.

The law also stipulates that police must give two warnings to anyone they believe is contravening the law. The maximum penalty carries a three-year jail sentence.

Lawyers for Tajjour and Hawthorne will today argue the law is unconstitutional and in violation of the International Human Rights Treaty of which Australia is a signatory.

Within weeks of the legislation passing, the four were arrested and charged with consorting with each other after being warned by police from the Gangs Squad they were in breach of the law.

All four pleaded not guilty and police have since stopped using the charge while waiting to see the outcome of the current case.

It is understood both parties have indicated they will appeal the decision to the High Court if they lose.

The NSW Ombudsman released details of a review it is doing into the Consorting laws yesterday saying the law had been widely used across metroplitan Sydney.

More than 1000 official police warnings have been issued and 16 charges laid.

"We are watching the outcome closely,'' a senior police officer said of the legal challenge to the laws.

"From our point of view it's a good piece of legislation which helps us keep the bikies in check.''

Police from Strike Force Raptor allege they warned members of the Nomads on April 20 for consorting at a Merrylands cafe. They claim they were again warned at a cafe in Bella Vista two weeks later before being seen to be consorting again at a cafe in the city on May 2.

Eight days later they arrested Zammit, 31, and Tajjour, 32. Tajjour was arrested again a few days later while allegedly in the company of another associate David Brannan, 26.

It was reported Tajjour, a cousin of the Ibrihims was visiting John and Sam's mother, Wahiba who was ill at the time of one of the warnings.

In the 70s and 80s NSW police had a similar law police by a special squad known as the Consorting Squad.