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The moment Mark James Graham shot bikie rival Jacques Teamo at Robina Town Centre

THIS is the moment terrified shoppers scatter as a bikie opens fire on a rival at a crowded Robina shopping centre. Police today revealed how close an innocent child came to being murdered.

Robina Shopping Centre shooting

THIS is the moment the bikie war spilt over into the public domain in dramatic fashion.

Previously unreleased footage from the 2012 Robina Town Centre shooting shows Mongols bikie Mark James Graham, dressed in dark pants and a dark Adidas jumper, pacing through the busy shopping centre on a rainy Saturday afternoon in April.

Something catches his attention and he goes back to look into a shop. He walks off, then stops, reaches into his trouser pocket, handles an object and then appears to put it back.

Graham walks back to the shop, goes inside, out of view of the camera, before emerging again at 1:45:47.

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He is soon followed out of the store by Bandido rival Jacques Teamo, who is dressed in light trousers and a long-sleeve white top. Mr Teamo appears to yell out to Graham.

Then the confrontation.

STAND-OFF: Jacques Teamo (in white) and Mark Graham (in black) are seen talking seconds before the Robina Town Centre shooting.
STAND-OFF: Jacques Teamo (in white) and Mark Graham (in black) are seen talking seconds before the Robina Town Centre shooting.

A passer-by, unaware of the violence about to unfold, picks up a $10 note dropped by Graham and interrupts the two bikies to return it.

As he walks away, things turn nasty.

Graham pulls out a gun, Teamo starts to run away but he’s shot along with innocent shopper Kathy Devitt.

Terrified shoppers scatter.

CCTV images show the moment Jacques Teamo is shot at Robina Town Centre by bikie rival Mark Graham
CCTV images show the moment Jacques Teamo is shot at Robina Town Centre by bikie rival Mark Graham

As Mark Graham’s sentence, for the attempted murder of Teamo and unlawful wounding of Ms Devitt, was today delayed until 10am November 3, due to a diagnosis of bipolar, Detective Inspector Brian Swan reveals how police caught their man.

Within 24 hours of the shooting, a CCTV image of the gunman was plastered across national media.

Almost immediately police received a call from a Surfers Paradise resident who recognised Graham.

They had been on the same flight up to the Gold Coast from Melbourne.

‘We worked with Federal Police and looked at footage from the airport and worked back from there,” said Det Insp Swan.

Mark James Graham walks into the Brisbane Courthouse before the verdict yesterday.
Mark James Graham walks into the Brisbane Courthouse before the verdict yesterday.

Graham had jumped back on the first flight to Melbourne, so Queensland police worked with their Victorian counterparts, who swooped on Graham during a vehicle intercept on the Monday afternoon.

The next day he was extradited back to the Gold Coast but police were intent on making the charges stick after discovering how close the brazen stand-off came to being a killing.

“The most chilling part of the footage is immediately in front of Kathy Devitt is a lady walking with a small child who is about the same height as where Ms Devitt was shot,” said Det Insp Swan.

“If they were seconds behind, we could’ve been looking at a little girl being murdered.

“That was the one thing that stuck in our minds.”

After Mark James Graham was found guilty in court yesterday, it was revealed he was already on bail for weapons and drug charges when he shot Teamo and Ms Devitt.

Ms Devitt still has fragments of bullet in her flesh and “long-lasting” psychological scars.

It took jurors just six hours to reach a decision following a week-long trial.

Robina shooting victim Kathy Devitt still has fragments of bullet in her flesh and “long-lasting” psychological scars. Picture: Tim Marsden
Robina shooting victim Kathy Devitt still has fragments of bullet in her flesh and “long-lasting” psychological scars. Picture: Tim Marsden

Crown Prosecutor Michael Byrne QC asked Justice Alan Wilson to jail the Mongols bikie for 10-17 years over the shooting on April 28, 2012, which occurred while Graham was on bail for possession of a handgun, body armour, ammunition and methamphetamine in 2011.

The maximum penalty for attempted murder is life.

Mr Byrne argued Graham should be declared a serious violent offender, meaning he would have to serve at least 80 per cent of his sentence before he could be paroled.

“He travelled to a busy shopping centre ... he had a loaded firearm capable of discharging,” he said.

“To walk through a shopping centre with a loaded weapon raises the issue of public protection.”

Mr Byrne said Graham had not co-operated with police by giving an interview and the firearm had never been recovered.

He tendered a victim impact statement from Ms Devitt, who had suffered considerable psychological “turmoil and upset”.

Kathy Devitt is taken to hospital after the shooting at Robina Town Centre in 2012.
Kathy Devitt is taken to hospital after the shooting at Robina Town Centre in 2012.

Defence barrister David Edwardson QC said that Graham had travelled from Melbourne to the Gold Coast to visit his daughter, now 5, for her birthday, and that the encounter with Teamo had been by “chance”.

He said his client employed 18 people at his two tattoo parlours and it went to “the measure of the man, the other side of him” that he’d held a fundraiser for ­Beyond Blue, raising more than $11,000.

Former Bandidos bikie was shot by Mark James Graham at Robina Town Centre in 2012.
Former Bandidos bikie was shot by Mark James Graham at Robina Town Centre in 2012.

Graham had spent three of his 17 months’ jail in maximum security.

“Despite all that, the entire time in prison was incident-free,” Mr Edwardson said.

He added that Ms Devitt, who has since gone on to play hockey for Australia, had “been incredibly stoic” throughout the ordeal.

Mr Edwardson said there was no escaping the fact that his client had twice fired a gun in a public place.

He said it would not be in the best interests of the community for Graham to receive a long sentence as he would be “institutionalised” and “educated” in a way that would not make him a better person. Graham will be sentenced after 11.30am today.

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