Rebels bikie charged with murder of Clint Starkey
A LIFE member of the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang has been charged over the murder of Clint Starkey, who was the victim of a “particularly violent” bashing at a Central Coast petrol station.
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A LIFE member of the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang has been charged over the violent murder of a man on the NSW Central Coast.
Clint Starkey, 42, was the victim of what police called a “particularly violent” fatal bashing at the Caltex petrol station in Peats Ridge in April 2017.
A 50-year-old Rebels bikie was charged with murder on Wednesday morning becoming the seventh man accused of the killing.
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He is will appear before Gosford Local Court on Wednesday.
Last year homicide detectives released CCTV footage which they hoped would provide a breakthrough.
Mr Starkey was taken to the Caltex service station at Peats Ridge by another man about 10pm on April 5 where he was attacked and viciously bashed by up to four members of an outlaw motorcycle gang.
The man who took him to the service station allegedly stood by and watched the 42-year-old receive the horrific beating before driving him to Gosford Hospital shortly before midnight.
The beating was so severe emergency department staff initially thought he may have been bludgeoned with an axe.
“This was a particularly violent offence,” Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin said.
“A man was bashed to death.”
It’s alleged Mr Starkey, a known drug dealer linked to the Central Coast chapter of the Rebels, had become involved in a dispute with one of the bikies and then also threatened his girlfriend.
The chapter’s Sergeant-at-Arms Adam David Symonds, 36, has already been charged with murder.
Mr Starkey was due to face a sentencing at Gosford District Court on drug offences the following day.
The man who dropped Mr Starkey at hospital was later charged with concealing a serious indictable offence and firearm offences after police raided his Mangrove Mountain home the next day.
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