Slain bikie gang associate Liam Scorsese buried in a golden coffin
Liam Scorsese’s friends and family have loved ones have paid tribute the slain Comanchero bikie gang associate with a lavish funeral, personalised jewellery and tattoos.
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THIS is the moment a slain Comanchero bikie gang associate golden coffin was lowered into his grave.
Liam Scorsese, 31, was fatally gunned down by police at a Brisbane home on Sunday.
Queensland Police say they found him armed with a knife, trying to break into a house when he was fatally shot.
Tributes for Scorsese were posted to social media included images and videos of tattoos and jewellery with his name.
One post included footage of flower petals dropped onto his golden casket
Scorsese’s partner Chireez Beytell also posted a statement on social media:
“I can’t explain the pain and how broken I am to have watched you get lower(ed) into the ground,” she said.
Just eight days before he was killed, his girlfriend had posted a photo of them, wishing him a happy birthday.
She also recently shared how her mum messaged her about a baby shoes website, posting “dropping hints much”.
According to the Gold Coast Bulletin, Scorsese seems to have first come to prominence for the wrong reasons in August, 2016, when he plead guilty to testosterone possession.
That same month he assaulted a tourist bus driver in central Surfers Paradise.
It came after the driver dared ask how long Scorsese and his mate, an alleged Comanchero bikie, planned to stay illegally parked in a bus zone.
The attack, caught on CCTV, was at 5pm — three hours later Scorsese was seriously assaulted himself, bolting with a broken jaw after a shady apartment meeting with others in which a gun was discharged.
He refused to lay a complaint about his injury.
A month later he was allegedly found with counterfeit $50 notes, gambling at the casino in Broadbeach.
Shortly after his death, Instagram pictures revealed how Scorsese was looking forward to starting a new life after leaving prison late last year.
He was freed from Gatton prison after serving three months behind bars for the bus driver assault.
In December, 2016, following a traffic accident in Broadbeach Waters, TV footage showed him leaping from a stretcher and lashing out at paramedics, as a friend pleaded for him to calm down.
Charges were later dropped.
On Sunday morning, police were called to a house in Wakerley, Brisbane, by the occupants, who police say were “fearful” of an enraged, knife-wielding Scorsese outside.
A Taser was activated and two officers had backed up 50 to 60 metres before Scorsese was shot twice — including once in the neck — by a junior cop.
He died soon after.
Acting Chief Superintendent Mick Niland has said the “officers were in fear for their lives”.
Scorsese’s Sydney-based mother Maree Maloney has reached out on Facebook to his girlfriend, saying she loves him “so much and my heart has broken like your heart”.
“We can help to console and heal each other,” Ms Maloney writes.
Scorsese’s father Peter Maloney wrote to the Gold Coast Bulletin, saying his son had potential for kindness, a big heart and questioned whether more could have been done for is son’s mental health issues.
Despite his criminal past, Scorsese’s lawyer said he was “just a man with tattoos and bad friends”.
