Talal Eleter: Tilly’s Barber owner pleads guilty over Belmore attack

Just what led to a man being bashed by 12 hooded thugs and shot in the leg can be revealed as a dispute over him wanting 50% of profits for protecting a business.

Talal Eleter, pictured, who has pleaded guilty over his role in a bashing which saw a man shot in Belmore.

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The events surrounding a suburban Sydney shooting in Belmore which saw a man needing two surgeries can be tied back to a feud over “protection” for local businesses.

Patrick Abdel-Sater was left with a broken nose, jaw, eye sockets and needing surgery for a bullet wound after being attacked by 12 men inside the Royal Ink Tattoo parlour last September.

The events leading up to the bashing can be revealed for the first time after a man described as the “lookout” in court documents pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company on Friday.

Police at the scene on Burwood Rd. Adbel-Sater presented to hospital himself after the attack. Picture: Bill Hearne

Talal Eleter, 27, is the only person to ever have been charged over the attack after the case against Royal Ink owner Shade Saleh was thrown out.

Documents tendered in Burwood Local Court outline how Abdel-Sater was attacked by a dozen hooded men after he arranged to procure 50 per cent of the profits from Royal Ink for providing them with “protection”.

Royal Ink was preparing to open at the time and was undergoing renovations.

Eleter was described as the group’s lookout.

The documents state how CCTV footage captured Abdel-Sater being lured inside the tattoo parlour about 10.30pm before the group follows him in, turns the lights out and begin what is described as several minutes of a “vicious assault”.

Court documents also detail how Eleter, who owns Tilly’s Barbers two doors down, acted as a lookout while the attack took place and moved a ladder to obscure what was going on inside.

“The hooded males punched and kicked the victim. He was also hit on the head with a fire extinguisher,” the agreed fact state.

The man was shot after not giving up his phone pin. Picture: Bill Hearne

“This is our area … get out … we run things here,” one man reportedly said during the attack.

When Abdel-Sater refused to hand over the pin to his phone, according to court documents, one of the men then shot him in the leg just below the knee.

Police conceded Eleter had no idea about the weapon or the level of violence Abdel-Sater was going to be subjected to.

He was unable to eat solid foods for six weeks and needed two surgeries after the shooting.

Eleter’s lawyer Theo Voros told the court the barber had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, spent 30 days in custody before being granted bail and his actions were the least serious of those involved.

He will return to Burwood Local Court later this year to be sentenced.

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