Andre Stepanyan sentenced for being accessory after fact to stabbing at Mongols bikie clubhouse in Blacktown
A prospective bikie washed away the blood of a man who had been stabbed at a gang clubhouse because he feared failing to do so would be met with reprisal, a court has heard. See the pictures.
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A prospective bikie washed away the blood of a man who had been assaulted and stabbed at a gang clubhouse because he feared failing to do so would be met with reprisal, a court has heard.
Andre Stepanyan, 38, was an “observer” during a violent August 2023 melee involving four other men and the victim at the clubhouse in Blacktown, Parramatta District Court heard when he was sentenced on Monday to a 12-month intensive correction order.
The court heard while the Marsfield man had not been a Mongols member or someone with a longstanding gang association, he had been considered a “prospect” on the day in question.
Agreed facts tendered to the court reveal three men wearing “Mongols Australia-branded clothing” – brothers Luke and Shayden Owen, along with Alan Robert Ross – charged towards the victim.
The trio and another assailant, Rouk Mensa, then attacked the man for just over a minute at the Forge St industrial complex of six warehouses just before 8.30am on the Sunday in question.
The facts state Stepanyan stood a short distance away while Mensa and Ross kicked the man in the back and side and to the head.
The court heard Luke Owens punched, wrestled and brought the victim to the ground.
While the facts did not disclose who knifed the victim, he suffered stab wounds and a pool of blood could be seen near a fence after the assault.
Stepanyan — a father-of-one and former truckie — followed the victim to a ute, where the man had previously been standing, and wiped the seats before grabbing a green bucket filled with water, which he poured over the blood.
“He leaves, fills the bucket up and returns four times more with a bucket of water to continue cleaning the blood,’’ the facts state.
“Mensa can be seen directing (Stepanyan) in this process.’’
The court heard how the Owens brothers carried the victim from inside a van into a HiLux ute just under half an hour after the attack, in which he suffered three stab wounds to the buttocks.
The victim later required a “massive’’ blood transfusion and surgery.
Stepanyan pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to the wounding of a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Convicting and sentencing Stepanyan on Monday, Judge Stephen Hanley acknowledged he had been an accessory because he feared reprisal.
But the judge said his criminal history – mainly for drug and domestic violence offences dating back to 2009 – did not entitle him leniency.
Luke Owens, Mensa and Ross have pleaded guilty to affray and remain before the courts.
Shayden Owens pleaded guilty to reckless wounding in company and is also yet to be sentenced.
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