Police will allege that after sharing the Goulburn Supermax jail yard with convicted murderer Bassam Hamzy, Damien Featherstone recruited other inmates, most of whom also converted to Islam in jail, to form the Illawarra chapter of the B4L.

Details of the case can now be revealed after charges were laid last week against three men accused of being central members of the short-lived but ruthless gang chapter.

B4L was a vicious street gang based in Sydney’s southwest that imploded in 2013, spilling ­violence on to Sydney’s streets before most of its members were arrested.

The latest investigation shows the extraordinary influence Hamzy — an extreme high-risk classified inmate held in the most secure prison in the southern hemisphere — allegedly still has in the underworld.

Hamzy was allegedly able to use his influence to assemble an army of loyal followers — again.

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The NSW Police Criminal Groups Squad has been quietly investigating the B4L resurrection since late last year after hearing whispers of a war between the group’s Illawarra chapter and the local Finks outlaw motorcycle club.

What detectives allegedly uncovered was a group of six to eight men allegedly moving guns, plotting a shooting, running drugs and dishing out violence.

While members got by with a few Arabic words, they often resorted to using pig Latin slang instead when discussing gang business.

However, unlike the original B4L gang that started in 2008 with Lebanese and Afghan members in Sydney’s southwest, the Illawarra members were Anglo-Saxon or ­Aboriginal housing commission residents of Wollongong who did not wear flashy B4L-branded gear.

The workings of the Illawarra chapter are alleged in a police statement of facts created after Andrew Coe — who changed his name to Abdullah — was arrested in Newcastle last week. Fellow members, Richard Dutton, 29, and Gregory Parker, 25, were charged with participating in a criminal group.

Despite being in jail, Featherstone allegedly called the shots on Hamzy’s behalf, allegedly ordering members to hide guns with relatives, track down ammunition and participate in Friday prayers.

“You got to remember to get the boys to Islam and God is great, trust your brothers like you trust me,” he told Dutton in a phone call last ­November, according to documents.

Most of the gang members converted to Islam while in jail, police will allege, including Coe, Featherstone’s right-hand man.

In one of many jail calls Featherstone allegedly made to Coe in January, 2018, the pair discussed following in the footsteps of a B4L original — convicted murderer Farhad “The Afghan” Qaumi.

“When I get out I’m going to go Qaumi style,” Coe allegedly said.

Featherstone, whose methamphetamine-fuelled paranoia led to a an unpredictable leadership style, is alleged to have replied: “We have gone Qaumi style but he has gone like a rat in the ground, even his ­little bitches.”

Featherstone, who was released from jail in NSW in December, was arrested in the ACT last month for unrelated offences.

A warrant was issued for his ­arrest after police raided his North Wollongong unit on February 1 and allegedly found a rifle and shotgun, hidden in a speaker.

Police allege the chapter’s main game was seeking revenge against the Finks Illawarra chapter president Troy Albert Fornaciari.

Featherstone, 29, believed the bikie — whom the B4L nicknamed “panda, f… face, rat and fonza” — had sent a hitman posing as a pizza delivery driver to his house, the facts state. “These c…s think I’m going to be in for years, little do they know I’ll be out in nine months,” Featherstone said to alleged B4L member Dutton, the document says. “I’m only going down for driving so the pizza man better watch the f… out.”

Dutton, in the phone conversation allegedly intercepted on November 6, 2017, said Fornaciari denied being behind the plot.

“He’s a lying dog,” Featherstone replied, according to the facts.

“Who else would have done it? Tell him Bass knows about it too so he’s not getting away with it.”

Five days later Coe allegedly told his leader that he hadn’t been able to pick up “the four sisters (guns)”. “Brother, tell him that me and B ­(allegedly code for Hamzy) said we f…ing want them. They are f…ing ours, bro, no one’s else’s,” Featherstone replied.

Hamzy’s apparently unstoppable influence has baffled senior police.

“It is concerning to see given the sentences he has and the fact that he has had this problem before, that he has been able to re-establish himself,” former NSW Police assistant commissioner Clive Small said.

“It raises questions about the ­restrictions on him.”

Despite his incarceration from the age of 18, Hamzy has managed to run a multimillion-dollar drug ring, order kidnappings and drive-by shootings, establish a gang twice and smuggle in three phones.

In the late 2000s, Hamzy was the driving force behind the original Brothers 4 Life gang.

Hamzy signed up fellow Supermax inmate Farhad Qaumi, now in jail for murder, manslaughter and a string of other gangland crimes, to start a Blacktown B4L chapter.

A vicious power struggle within B4L ensued, with kneecappings, bashings and shooting.

It is alleged the Illawarra chapter was equally violent but less successful, with customers often failing to pay up for street-level ice deals.

The alleged plan to shoot Fornaciari was undone by a string of ­comedic errors, including a flat tyre, an empty petrol tank and a lack of ammunition.

At one point, Coe and other members allegedly recruited a woman to try to lure Fornaciari from his North Wollongong lair. But Fornaciari cottoned on.

“How dare u disrespect my club and me and my workshop,” Fornaciari texted the woman, according to police.

“If any c… wants info tell em to come find out for em self not send a rat.”

Fornaciari was arrested on February 1 and charged over his own alleged criminal activities with the Finks OMCG.

Coe has been charged with conspiracy to shoot Fornaciari, while Dutton and Parker are charged with participating in a criminal group.

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