Bikies NSW: The OMCG members guilty of brutal public violence | VIDEO
From a Nomad who beat a man in front of gym-goers to a Fink on a cocaine binge who bashed two men, these are the bikies who took retribution into their own hands.
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One percenters are, by definition, a law unto themselves.
So it’s no surprise club members have been found to have committed brutal attacks by taking matters into their own hands.
From beatings in gyms, at bars and on the streets, these are the bikies guilty of shocking public assaults and affrays.
Luke Owens and Eddie Maiaua
It took just seven seconds for a friendly meeting to turn into a sickening attack, as Mongols bikie Luke Owens unleashed on a man outside a Five Docks apartment building.
CCTV footage of the unprovoked attack, which took place on a suburban street in December 2019, showed 32-year-old Owens launch a lethal right hook at his victim, moments after shaking his hand.
As the victim laid dazed on the ground, Owens punched him 13 more times to the head.
Owens stole the man’s Gucci bag and passed it off to fellow Mongol Eddie Maiaua, 42, who had been lurking in the background.
The men fled into the night before the victim was transported to Prince of Wales Hospital for treatment.
Upon viewing the footage, District Court Judge Penelope Hock labelled the assault “cowardly”.
“(After the first punch the man) was effectively defenceless, yet Owens continued to punch him to the head and body,” Ms Hock said.
Both men were charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company, and in June this year convicted and sentenced to 20-month intensive corrections orders.
Owens was also ordered to complete 200 hours of community service, while Maiaua was handed 170 hours.
It wasn’t Owens’ first public attack. The court heard he had only four months earlier pleaded guilty to assault after bashing his brother in front of shocked patrons at Rydalmere Tavern.
Benjamin Main
Finks bikie Benjamin Main was with three other club members, all dressed in Finks-branded clothing, when he launched a strategic and violent attack on two men at a Hunter Valley pub in December last year.
The bikies had a heated discussion with the men but it wasn’t until later, when security at Royal Federal Hotel Branxton were distracted by an unrelated scuffle, that Main, 28, exacted revenge.
CCTV showed one victim, who saw the group approaching, make a failed attempt to hide behind other patrons.
Cessnock Local Court heard he was forced to the ground by Main and an unidentified companion in a Finks T-shirt, before being punched and kicked.
The fight was broken up by security, with the Finks and the victims leaving the venue before police arrived.
The court heard Main had been binging on cocaine and alcohol in the hours before the attack, and that he’d been trying to distance himself from the Finks.
Lawyer Roland Day said Main “fell off the rails” after a NSW Supreme Court order banning him from associating with fellow bikies expired.
Magistrate Andrew Miller sentenced Main to 16 months behind bars for affray, with a non-parole period of eight months.
Judge Roy Ellis reduced the penalty to a 12-month intensive corrections order on appeal.
Tarek Zahed
In another attack caught on camera, senior Comanchero Tarek Zahed was seen striking a man in the head in a Crown Casino rest room.
Zahed, 40, had been at a birthday celebration with about 30 associates in January this year, while his victim was seated with a different group.
Crown’s CCTV captured the men walking to the rest room together where they had a heated discussion, before Zahed slapped and threw a punch at his victim.
The door to the rest room was then closed, obscuring what happened as the men remained inside for the next two minutes.
Zahed, who is known for his love of designer clothes, was initially charged with affray but that was reduced to using violence to cause fear.
He pleaded guilty and was convicted and fined $1000. The court heard by being at Crown he had contravened a 2019 order banning him from casinos.
Graeme McGilvray
Former Hells Angels president Graeme McGilvray claimed two men were “staring at him” before a public brawl that saw him headbutt one victim and chase another with a metal stool.
The January 2020 assault at Huskisson Pub was caught on CCTV.
The footage showed McGilvray approach the group before lunging at one man, head first.
McGilvray threw several punches as his shirt was ripped off in the 35-second melee.
The then-South Coast chapter boss was escorted away by security but grabbed the metal stool and ran back to the group, causing another 15-second brawl.
Nowra Local Court heard McGilvray had turned his life around since the fight, and no longer consumed drugs or alcohol.
His lawyer suggested McGilvray acted in self defence – something Magistrate Gabriel Fleming rejected.
“Look at that, disgraceful,” Ms Fleming said of the footage.
“You’ve got three young sons Mr McGilvray, do you want them going to a pub and seeing that?”
McGilvray was convicted of affray and sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order, plus 200 hours of community service.
Blake Martin
Nomads bikie Blake Martin set upon a member of the Finks with a steel bar at a Newcastle gym, at the height of a bloody feud between the rival clubs.
Martin, 30, broke the Fink’s arm in the March 2017 attack at Anytime Fitness Kotara, during a weekend of fighting that culminated with the Nomads’ Islington clubhouse being shot up.
The gym assault and subsequent fighting were believed to have been sparked by a former Nomad patching over to the Finks.
The following night, Martin, along with fellow Finks Dylan Britliffe, 36, James Quinnell, 32, and Kane Tamplin, 30, assaulted two men at a Newcastle bucks party.
A brawl erupted at Honeysuckle Hotel after a member of the bucks party bumped into Britliffe.
The four Nomads began throwing punches and Britliffe glassed one of the victims in the neck.
All four of the men pleaded guilty to affray, while Martin pleaded guilty to a second charge of affray for the gym attack.
The spree of violence saw the four Nomads and other members of their club convicted of participating in a criminal group, and issued Serious Crime Prevention Orders.
Martin told the NSW Supreme Court he did not want to comment on the reason behind the shocking gym assault.
The orders were imposed for one year, and barred the Nomads from associating with other members of the club.
Thomas Wightman
A Rebels bikie bashed a man who accused him of stealing money so violently, the victim was left with multiple face fractures.
Thomas Wightman, 34, and an associate received a lift from the victim to Mungindi in the state’s north west in May 2019.
It was after dropping the pair off the man realised $260 was missing from his wallet.
The victim approached the men in the street, pretending to have two knives behind his back even though he was unarmed.
“Where is my money?” he yelled at them, to which one replied “What f***ing money?”
The victim threatened to stab the pair before they struck him, knocking him to the ground.
“While on the ground, the victim did not fight back and attempted to protect his head and body,” police said in court documents.
“The victim felt being hit with a hard object. The assault continued for an unknown period of time before they stopped.”
Wightman, from Moree, was last year convicted of grievous bodily harm in company and sentenced to 14 months behind bars.
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