Alleged bikies to front court over a brawl at a Prahran nightclub

Four men police believe to have links to the Comancheros were allegedly involved in a horrific brawl outside a Prahran nightclub that nearly proved fatal.

Four people with links to the Comancheros are back in court next month over their alleged involvement in a brawl outside Love Machine nightclub that nearly turned fatal.

The four are facing a string of charges after detectives from the Echo Taskforce nabbed them following the brawl at the nightclub on Malvern Rd on August 18.

CCTV footage shows a fight allegedly breaking out at 3.45am between two men, before a number of others were drawn in.

A Rowville man was left with a number of knife wounds and another man was left unconscious after he attempted to stop the fight.

Those arrested were a 23-year-old man from Corio, a 23-year-old Bell Post Hill man, a 39-year-old man from Tarneit who’s believed to be a patched Comancheros member, and a 43-year-old Hillside man.

CCTV footage of the brawl outside the Love Machine nightclub. Picture: Victoria Police

The trio from Corio, Bell Post Hill and Hillside are facing charges of affray, common law assault while the 39-year-old is facing charges of common law assault, affray and intentionally causing injury, recklessly causing injury, unlawful assault, using threatening words, failing to notify firearm prohibition order registry of change of address and possessing a prohibited weapon.

They will appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on December 9 and 10.

The brawl occurred just metres from where 21-year-old Jacob Elliot – the son of Nabil Maghnie – murdered two people in a brazen drive-by shooting in 2019. Elliot was sentenced to life behind bars with a non-parole period of 29 years for shooting security guard Aaron Khalid Osmani and Richard Arow dead.