Bandido bikie Bradley Duff released on bail to attend mum’s funeral

A high-ranking bikie who boasts his affiliations online and whom police say cultivated 600 cannabis plants on a farm the size of Hyde Park has been freed from one of the state’s maximum security jails to attend his mum’s funeral.

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One of the state’s top bikies accused of cultivating a cannabis farm on a property the size of Hyde Park in the state’s central west will be freed from jail after a plea from his lawyers to attend his mother’s funeral.

Bandidos president Bradley John Duff, 45, has been granted bail in the NSW Supreme Court after his legal team argued there were serious flaws in the case against him.

Duff, who boasts his affiliations to the gang on social media, was released after the court was told the father-of-three wanted to be out in time to make his mother’s funeral next Wednesday.

Bandidos president Bradley John Duff (pictured) has been charged with cultivating a huge cannabis farm in Coolah, north of Mudgee. Picture: Supplied.

She had died recently while Duff was remanded in custody.

Police accuse him and two others of maintaining a cannabis farm 100km north of Mudgee worth $1.65 million on the street.

The Supreme Court heard detectives had surveilled the 285 acre rural property from the air over a number of days in April before swooping in on the trio.

Over 600 cannabis plants and 50kg of the drug was located in a shed on the property, the court was told.

A double barrelled shotgun was also located by police during their search.

Some of the cannabis seized by police earlier this year.

610 plants were allegedly located by police, the court heard.

Duff’s barrister AJ Karim said none of the police surveillance had picked up Duff actually on the farm, or any evidence of him cultivating and watering the plants.

“There’s no intercepts there’s no texts there’s no listening devices and no witnesses,” Mr Karim said.

“Other than his mere presence there is no association with him cultivation prohibited plants.”

Mr Karim added Duff intends on getting back to work at his Sydney concrete pumping business when released from Parklea’s maximum security jail, from where he was appearing via audio-visual link on Thursday.

Duff and his co-accused have been charged with cultivating and supply a commercial quantity of cannabis as well as participating in a criminal group.

Duff’s barrister told the Supreme Court he would take the charges to trial.

The court was told he had a “lengthy” criminal history.

Crown prosecutor Jessica Yates told the court Duff’s belongings were located in a shed on the farm after his arrest, linking him to the cropping of the cannabis.

The court heard Duff has a lengthy criminal history and he is understood to have risen through the ranks of the Bandidos, where he is now a senior member, in a decade-long association with the gang.

His social media is littered with images of him donning gear bearing the gang’s emblem.

As part of his bail conditions he is not allowed to communicate with any member of the Sydney chapter of the Bandidos and has to report to Kogarah police station twice a day.

Duff will return to Dubbo Local Court on July 24.

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