Police rubbish rumours slain bikie boss Mick Hawi had $10m price on his head
RUMOURS slain bike boss Mick Hawi had a $10 million price on his head have been rubbished by police. “No gangster’s life is worth that much, doesn’t matter who you are.”
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RUMOURS slain bike boss Mick Hawi had a $10 million price on his head have been rubbished by police. “No gangster’s life is worth that much, doesn’t matter who you are.”
The final pieces of the puzzle into who assassinated the former national president of the Comanchero bikies appear to be falling into place after the Sunday Telegraph exclusively revealed police have used DNA to identify the killer.
The breakthrough was the result of months of painstaking work by the Criminal Group Squad using DNA at the scene linking him to the crime.
Hawi’s assassin is said to be a member of the rival Lone Wolf motorcycle gang, aged in his 30’s who spent time in prison and was a former friend.
Official sources said Hawi and the killer were friends but fell out about a year ago after Hawi chastised him over his treatment of a woman.
Another source said Hawi cut the man out of his social circle because of his volatile behaviour.
Despite his membership of a rival gang, Hawi’s killer had been seen with senior Comanchero members both before and after the murder.
It is understood the killer has since gone to ground.
A source close to Hawi has revealed a factional dispute within the Comanchero gang may have also led to the hit.
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He said the murder, signed off on by Australian-based Comanchero members, may have come from a former gang rival living in Dubai.
But police also believe Hawi’s involvement with extortion in the construction industry was a motivating factor for the murder.
Hawi, 37, was shot repeatedly through the window of his Mercedes-Benz 4WD outside Fitness First at Rockdale, in Sydney’s south, on February 15.
CCTV footage shows the killer, dressed in black and wearing a balaclava, running up to Hawi’s car and firing a number of times. He then fled to a grey Mercedes that was later found burnt out near the scene. Hawi, a father of two, was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital after suffering a heart attack in the ambulance.
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