Slain bikie Tyrone Lee Slemnick was due to be sentenced next week over extortion related charges
MURDERED bikie Tyrone Lee Slemnick was a stand-over man who was to be sentenced in court next week for attempting to extort $2500 from a brothel owner.
MURDERED bikie Tyrone Lee Slemnick was a stand-over man about to be sentenced over attempts to extort $2500 from an inner-city brothel owner.
Slemnick, 37, was to be sentenced in the Downing Centre local court next week for demanding money with menaces from a Lucy Wong, the owner of the Fallen Angel Brothel in Newtown in the early hours of the morning in October last year.
He and an associate, Aiden Garard, both pleaded guilty to the charges and were on bail awaiting sentencing.
Slemnick, a Hells Angel bikie, was gunned down during a turf war between rival gangs on Monday and is survived by three children to three different women.
He was killed Monday in a drive-by shooting in a suspected retaliation attack as his gang pushes into the eastern suburbs - traditionally a Comanchero strong hold.
Slemnik was once the NSW full-contact kung-fu champion and came close to winning the Australian Muay Thai middleweight title in early 2000 during his time as a competitive fighter.
Family and friends remembered Slemnick as a “true warrior” who was “always making people laugh”.
“Today my heart bleeds n my body is empty im going to miss you so much my baby brother,” Sister Marija Daley Slemnik wrote on her Facebook page.
Another relative, niece Tatyana Slemnik wrote: “You see shootings happen all over the world, it's in the news almost every month, never would I have guessed that out of billions of people, my Uncle would be the unlucky one.”
“Although you were my nephew it feels like I lost a son,” aunt Theresia Reid wrote on her Facebook page. “Now you are pain free you have gone to be with mum R.I.P Tyrone my black spider man.”
An ongoing turf war between the Hells Angels and Comanchero bikie gangs is behind the drive-by shooting in Sydney's eastern suburbs, which also left another man wounded.
Detectives haven't named the gangs publicly but have said they will act as peacemakers between the groups in a bid to stop any revenge shootings.
"We are hopeful we can engage with personnel from both gangs to try to get them to evade any sort of retribution," Detective Inspector Dave Laidlaw, of the homicide squad, said.
"At this stage inquiries reveal that these persons have been engaged or associated with the OMCG (outlaw motorcycle gangs) around the area.
"We believe it is a dispute between two gangs, rival gangs. The motive could be a turf war or it could be a personal fight."
Slemnick, a known Hells Angel, was one of many who are moving into the Eastlakes area as the gang pushes its way into the eastern suburbs - traditionally a Comanchero strong hold.
A woman at the scene, whose daughter was close to the slain bikie member, said the family was in despair when word of his murder spread.
"My daughter is not coping with the emotional scene she witnessed when called late (Monday) night," she said.
Trouble between the two groups has been escalating ever since Hells Angels associate Anthony Zervos was bashed to death when the two gangs engaged in a huge brawl at Sydney Airport in 2009.
Tensions rose further in February last year when the Hells Angels announced on their website that they had opened a Bondi Beach chapter, a move which sparked a number of incidents, including a car bombing.
Senior police said it's common knowledge the Hells Angels are recruiting heavily and attempting to expand all over Sydney, not just in the east.
Locals in Eastlakes and Mascot said they had noticed a lot of Hells Angels in the area recently.
"They have been in the pubs and cafes and most of them are of Turkish descent," one local man said.
The Comanchero, which has chapters all over Sydney, has traditionally had strong footholds in Maroubra and Coogee. Until recently the Hells Angels were a smaller group centred in the inner west and the city.
But since the airport brawl, the Hells Angels have been actively recruiting and significantly increasing its numbers and influence throughout Sydney.
Two years ago a series of incidents, including a car bombing, were attributed to a turf war between the Comanchero and Notorious.
But the Hells Angels recruitment drive has seen many Notorious members now "patching over" to them.
Sydney's violent suburbs
July 8: Eastlakes, man killed
July 2: Shots into car, house, Banksia
July 2: Mount Hunter, shots fired into shed
June 27: Shots fired into property, Prestons
June 26: Man shot, Punchbowl
June 26: Shooting incident, Springside, near Orange
June 24: Penrith, shots into car
June 24: Shots into house, Lakemba
June 21: Newcastle, shooting, crash and police pursuit
June 20: Shots into house, Liverpool
June 19: Shooting incident, Orange
June 18: Shooting, Tregear
June 18: Man arrested after shooting, Canley Vale
June 16: Shooting incident, Yagoona
June 16: Shots into home and car, Fairfield
June 15: Man shot, Mount Pritchard
June 13: Man shot, Canterbury
June 13: Heckenburg, shooting
June 10: Hurstville, shots fired
June 8: Shooting near Wagga Wagga
June 7: Shots fired into house, Greenfield Park
June 5: Police appeal after shooting, South Wentworthville
May 1: Man shot, Rydalmere
April 30: Man shot, Dubbo
April 29: Bullets fired, Moorfield Rd, Kingsgrove
April 26: Four men shot, Wetherill Park
April 26: Man shot, Burwood
April 26: Man shot, Ettalong Beach
April 25: Shots fired, Arncliffe
April 22: Two men in Fairfield Hospital with gunshot wounds
April 22: One shot, Willoughby
April 21: Shots fired, Condell Park
April 2: Shots fired, Arncliffe
March 25: Shots into car, Bogangar
March 24: Shots fired, Mt Pritchard
March 15: Man shot dead, Greenacre
March 10: Shots fired into home, Lansvale
March 9: Shots fired, Seven Hills
March 9: Woman shot in legs, Auburn
March 9: Shots fired into home, Auburn
March 6: Shots fired into home, Padstow Heights
February 28: Man attends Bankstown Police Station with gunshot wound
February 16: Shots fired, Marrickville
February 15: Shot fired at car, Seven Hills
February 15: Shots fired into Albion Hotel, Parramatta
February 14: Shots fired into home, Wallacia
February 9: Man attends Bankstown Hospital with gunshot wounds
February 8: Man shot Strathfield
February 2: Man shot dead, Blackett
February 2: Man shot in road rage, Bidwill
January 27: Shot fired at car, Eagle Vale
January 25: Shots at shop, Macquarie Fields
January 24: Man shot, South Granville
January 22: Man shot, Greenacre
January 21: Suspected shooting, Chipping Norton
January 20: Man shot, Auburn
January 20: Man fatally wounded, Claymore
January 15: One man shot dead, another wounded, Wetherill Park
January 13: Man shot Homebush
January 9: Man shot, Mullaway Bay
January 7: Man attends Westmead Hospital with gunshot wound
January 6: Drive-by shooting, Canterbury