Wife of Lone Wolf bikie has child porn charges dropped

Police have dropped child pornography charges against the wife of Lone Wolf bikie Erkan Keskin. Kristen Keskin was pulled off a plane bound for Dubai at Sydney Airport in August and arrested in front of her four children over what turned out to be innocent family photographs.

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Police have dropped child pornography charges against the wife of Lone Wolf bikie Erkan Keskin and she’ll seriously consider following in her husband’s footsteps with plans to sue the state.

Kristen Keskin was pulled off a plane bound for Dubai at Sydney Airport in August and arrested in front of her four children over what turned out to be innocent family photographs.

The 39-year-old was charged with producing child exploitation material three days before prosecutors withdrew similar charges against her husband — a high-ranking bikie known as “Eric the Wolf”.

Kristen Keskin, the wife of Lone Wolf bikie Erkan Keskin, leaves Downing Centre Local. Picture: AAP Image

The pictures, seized from Keskin’s home during a police raid, were later revealed to be from a family album with birth shots of their kids and his wife’s charges were also scrapped at Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday.

Homicide detectives investigating the gangland murder of Comanchero associate Mehmet Yilmaz took a computer from Keskin’s Millers Point home last year but the 41-year-old has not been charged over his death.

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The former Turkish soldier was charged late last year over Yilmaz’s kidnapping weeks ­before the 29-year-old was shot dead in 2016.

Police alleged the computer contained child abuse images but the Keskin family’s lawyer says they were analysed by the then Organised Crime Squad in July 2015 yet no charges were laid.

“The last time that specific computer was turned on was in fact in 2015 by police,” Victoria-Jane Otavski told The Daily Telegraph.

Kristen Keskin had child porn charges dropped. Picture: AAP Image

The alleged former Lone Wolf national president has vowed to sue the state for malicious prosecution after he spent a night in jail in what made front-page news in April.

Keskin, who in 2015 ran down a western Sydney street naked while brandishing a gun, plans to launch a Supreme Court civil lawsuit early next year where he’ll claim for aggravated damages.

Her lawyer says the couple has finally been vindicated but not without “suffering significant damage” after being unfairly targeted with unwarranted and outrageous charges.

“It was done with a view to cause the maximum embarrassment and hurt,” Ms Otavski said.

“She’s definitely considering all of her legal options and that includes any claim for malicious prosecution. Any such claim would be bought individually.”

More than two years after Queensland police charged Keskin for allegedly trafficking large amounts ice to a cross-border drug ring those were also dropped in October.

Kristen Keskin will seriously consider following in her husband’s footsteps with plans to sue the state. Picture: AAP Image

The Dubai gym owner and former crane company “adviser” is currently serving a nine-month suspended sentence after he told five associates — who are in custody at various jails across the country — that he had been summoned to the Crime Commission for questioning over three murders.

That breached a non publication order and Keskin was sentenced on July 27 after pleading guilty to five counts of making publication in contravention of a direction.

He is due to face Penrith Local Court on January 10 over the kidnapping and demanding property in company with menaces charges while Mrs Keskin will make an application for legal costs over her matter on March 20.