Slain bikie Mark Easter’s wife confronts Abuzar ‘Abs’ Sultani over husband’s murder

Biancha Simpson told the court her deceased husband, Rebels bikie Mark Easter, was her “rock, best friend and soulmate”.

The wife of slain Rebels bikie Mark Easter has faced her husband’s killer in court, delivering a powerful and poignant message directly to the man she once considered a brother.

Biancha Simpson took the stand in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday in memory of Easter, whom she described as her “soulmate”.

“He was my rock, my best friend, my soulmate, my coey,” she said, reading aloud from a victim impact statement she had prepared for the proceedings.

The man who ended Easter’s life, estranged Rebels bikie and five-time gangland killer Abuzar Sultani, watched on in silence as Ms Simpson spoke for a little over seven minutes about how her life had irrevocably changed since her husband’s death in 2015.

Rebels bikie Abuzar Sultani (left and arrest, top right), and two of the men he killed - Pasquale Barbaro and Michael Davey.

At one stage, Ms Simpson asked Sultani, whom she referred to by his nickname ‘Abs’, if he could hear her from across the courtroom, fearing she may have been speaking too softly.

“I can hear ya,” Sultani replied quietly.

Ms Simpson said she would forever be haunted by Sultani’s “callous and cowardly actions” in “discharging a firearm …. to the back of a trusted sworn brother’s head.

“Not once, not twice, but four times,” she said.

“The moment you killed Mark you took away any chance of our continuing a family, stability, happiness, dreams and our aspirations we had planned.

“I was left empty and lonely … my heart has been broken ever since. My soul has been empty.”

Sultani, who pleaded guilty to a charge of murder, gave evidence in court on Wednesday during his sentencing hearing that he shot Easter multiple times at close range after a meeting about a drug deal turned sour.

Sultani told the court he believed it was “me or him” after Easter allegedly pointed a gun in his direction and asked if he had any drugs on the premises.

Slain bikie Mark Easter and partner Biancha Simpson.

It is the first time Sultani has ever spoken about his short but brutal reign of terror, which culminated in the murders of Nikola Srbin, Michael Davey, Mehmet Yilmaz, mafisoso figure Pasquale Barbaro and Easter over a three-year period.

“He pointed the gun at me … I thought ‘f—k, it’s me or him’,” Sultani said, of the moment he knew he would kill Easter that night.

Sultani said he put Easter’s lifeless body in a bathtub filled with ice.

He and a fellow member then disposed of Easter’s body in bushland near Berowra three days later, where it was discovered by council workers.

Ms Simpson said she was sickened to learn Sultani had treated her husband’s body “like a piece of rubbish”, but, in an act of considerable grace, she went on to say she wished he would find peace in the future.

“I truly hope Abs, that in time, when you no longer have your audience to cater for, you can show remorse through a truthful path allowing some type of closure to the family and the lives that you destroyed,” she said.

“I wish you peace.”

Ms Simpson was supported in court by Michael Davey’s father Will.

Justice Mark Ierace will sentence Sultani at a later date.

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