Matthew Wiggins faces hearing for murder of ex Comanchero bikie Darko Janceski
A SYDNEY court has heard the harrowing way the mother of a murdered former Comanchero bikie deals with the pain of losing her son after he was shot by an executioner on her front lawn.
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EVERY Saturday at 5pm Dosta Janceska places a plate of home-cooked food and a candle on the front lawn of her Wollongong home.
It was at this time and place she once held her dying son — a former Comanchero bikie turned car salesman — after he had been shot by an executioner riding a Yamaha dirt bike.
She has carried out the ritual for the past 322 Saturdays.
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Today, six years after Darko Janceski’s murder, his father told a Sydney court about his wife’s pain and the flashbacks he suffered as a result of what happened on April 14, 2012.
“Flashbacks appear every day as 5pm appears near,” Slobodan Janceski told the NSW Supreme Court.
When he stared at his front gate he said he pictured, “my son Darko lying down with three bullet holes in his chest”.
“Losing my only son, everything seems dark world to me. Like a lake full of water once with a spring, of water flowing in it, then suddenly at once someone cut that spring,” he said in a victim impact statement.
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As he read his words aloud in the courtroom, his son’s killer, Matthew Paul Wiggins, sat a few metres away in the dock, sporting a recently grown lumberjack beard.
Wiggins would not have been sitting where he was today had it not been for Mr Janceski, who attacked him with a metal garden stake after seeing his son’s lifeless body on the lawn.
As a result of a scuffle between the pair, Wiggin’s helmet and $300 Prada sunglasses were knocked off his head, leaving behind important DNA evidence which ultimately led to his conviction.
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In May this year a jury found Wiggins, 29, guilty of shooting Janceski dead as he worked on a car in the front yard of his parents’ Berkeley home.
A court has previously heard Wiggins and a man named Robert Nikolovski conspired to kill Janceski as revenge for the disappearance and suspected death of drug dealer Goran Nikolovski.
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Mr Janceski also told the court that a part of his family had died at the same time his son was killed and his wife was “standing up like a dying tree”.
“No mother on earth deserves all this, having a dying child on her lap, helplessly,” he said.
He also spoke about how his son had been a labourer as a teenager and was working as a wholesale manager at the two biggest Toyota car yards in the Illawarra at the time of his death.
The court also heard of how Mr Janceski had worked pushing trolleys at Coles and Woolworths as a 12-year-old and gave his first pay packet of $11.50 to his father.
Wiggins will be sentenced next Tuesday while his co-accused Robert Nikolovski will face a sentencing hearing later today.