Lone Wolf bikie gang vice president Thick Mou pleads guilty to possessing loaded handgun

The vice president of a bloodthirsty Western Australian bikie gang has launched his crew’s Melbourne racket with a violent bang.

Lone Wolf bikie gang vice president Thick Mou has pleaded guilty to gun and drug charges.

A high-ranking member of a violent Western Australian bikie gang was shot after expanding his crew’s criminal operations into Melbourne, a court has heard.

Thick Mou, 31, pleaded guilty in the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to multiple gun and drugs charges including a possessing a loaded handgun with a silencer.

Mou was nabbed after police spotted the menace driving a black Mercedes Benz erratically through Melbourne’s west in July last year.

Mou collided with another vehicle then dumped the black Merc at a Maidstone property and fled from police on foot.

Mou gave police a fake ID but did not tell them he was holding a loaded gun.

Police searched Mou’s Merc and seized a loaded handgun with a scraped rego and its hammer pulled back which the court heard was “ready to fire” with a bullet in the chamber.

Investigators also seized a loaded magazine, a box of .22 rounds, a discharged bullet casing, a bulletproof vest, four mobile phones, a knife and some GHB.

Police, who raided Mou’s Sydenham home on July 28, quickly established he was the vice president of the ultraviolet Western Australian Lone Wolf bikie gang.

Echo Taskforce anti-bikie detectives were called into to search Mou’s Charles Crt home and discovered the bikie’s gang jacket or “cut” framed with the words “vice president”.

Investigators also seized gold chains with outlaw motorcycle gang insignia, a beretta handgun and silencer, a cylinder gun, meth, steroids, bute, human growth hormone, and a stolen BMW.

Mou told Echo detectives he fortified his home with CCTV and a security door after he was shot in the leg by an unknown assailant.

The court heard Mou, who was sporting a fresh leg wound, said he was shot when he opened his garage door but didn’t know the shooter’s identity.

Mou told police he was “going to take care of the person who shot him” when he found who they were and why they blasted him.

The bikie enforcer, who fled to Australia via war torn Sudan, was denied bail last year after a court was told he was “actively” recruiting Melbourne members for the Lone Wolf.

Mou, who was jailed in Western Australia in 2018, said via his lawyer that he suffered with post-traumatic stress disorder and “severe paranoia”.

Mou claimed he “didn’t intend to hurt anyone” but feared “people” were trying to kill him.

Mou’s lawyer also made an unverified claim to the court that Mou shot himself but lied to police because he “didn’t want to disclose to police he had shot himself”.

The lawyer, who wasn’t aware of the limbs of verdins, could not provide any evidence of Mou’s mental health issues.

In response, the police prosecutor called for an immediate jail term citing Mou was “clearly involved in criminal activity”.

“This is someone who is calculating their moves for the purposes of criminal activities,” the prosecutor said.

“These are all signs of a criminal enterprise.”

Magistrate Amina Bhai, who said Mou was “looking at a significant sentence”, adjourned the matter so the defence could seek material provide further submissions.

Mou, a father of two, was remanded to face court next on May 19.

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