Sydney underworld glamour Jade Heffer resentenced after police find gun during Alameddine raid

A judge has ruled in the favour of one of Sydney underworld’s most recognisable faces, helping her reconnect with her rural hometown roots.

Jade Heffer outside Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

One of the most glamorous figures in Sydney’s underworld has had a major win in court, with a judge downgrading her sentence to allow her to fly interstate to see her family.

Jade Heffer, the wife of Alameddine crime clan associate Trent Jeske, had pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition in contravention of a firearm prohibition order.

The weapon, a Glock-style 9mm pistol, was discovered by police during a raid of her Greenacre home in 2023, where she lived with then-boyfriend Ahmad Alameddine.

The short-lived relationship with the convicted criminal followed the shooting death of her first husband, Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu.

Nazlioglu was executed in front of his wife in the basement carpark of an apartment block in Rhodes in June 2022, with a court hearing it left the now-29 year old suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.

Jade Heffer and her former husband Yusuf Nazlioglu before he was murdered.

Jade Heffer was in a short-term relationship with Ahmad Alameddine at the time she was arrested.

Court documents state Heffer’s DNA was found on the weapon, but she was upfront with detectives in disclosing she first saw it the previous day when an unknown person had brought it to the house.

She said she flicked the gun off the bed and it had landed on a shoebox, where police had discovered it.

Heffer was arrested, charged and remanded in custody for seven weeks before being granted bail by the NSW Supreme Court.

She was sentenced in Burwood Local Court to an 18-month intensive correction order, which she successfully appealed in the Sydney District Court on Thursday.

Jade Heffer with her second husband Trent Jeske.

The court heard the imposition of the order had taken a toll on Heffer’s already poor mental health as it increased the difficulty of reaching her parents, who still live in her childhood home on the northern side of the Murray River.

Barrister Ertunc Ozen SC submitted it was challenging for Heffer to reach her hometown of Barham as it took about 10 hours to get there by car, rather than a roughly three-hour drive from Melbourne.

Judge William Fitzsimmons said the threshold for a prison sentence had not been crossed, describing the seriousness of the offending as “below mid-range or perhaps the lowest”.

Jade Heffer with her solicitor Mostafa Daoudie. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

“It is unnecessary to traverse in full detail the appellant’s personal history,” Mr Fitzsimmons said before noting she came from a “good family” and was university educated.

“It is readily apparent the appellant’s life unravelled following ... [when] her husband was effectively executed in her presence.

“It is unsurprising that in those circumstances she was affected by what she had witnessed.

“That led to the appellant’s life further unravelling when she found herself in an abusive relationship which she was involved in at the time of this offence.”

Judge Fitzsimmons resentenced Heffer to a two-year community correction order, with the condition she complete 200 hours of community service and continuing treatment with her psychologist.