Finks enforcer Pierce Williams jailed for Hampton Park nude photo revenge attack
A Facebook nude photo sparked a Finks henchman and his bikie buddies to storm a Hampton Park home.
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A Carrum Downs bikie thug who copped to his role in a violent revenge attack sparked by a semi-naked Facebook photo has been jailed.
Pierce Williams, 34, was sentenced in the County Court on Wednesday to a minimum three years’ jail after pleading guilty to aggravated burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary.
Finks Cranbourne chapter henchman Williams was recruited into the revenge plot after a fake Facebook account purporting to be bikie moll Tara Egglestone was created.
The court heard semi-naked photos of Egglestone were posted to the bogus Facebook account.
Egglestone, mother of two, suspected her ex-boyfriend was responsible for the online nude scandal, and feeling upset and humiliated asked then Finks national president Brent “BJ” Reker to storm the man’s Hampton Park house on September 9, 2018.
Reker, Williams and patched bikies Nathan Martinow and Corey Wanakore-Moeke smashed their way into the victim’s home, beating his face with a tyre lever as he lay in bed with his girlfriend.
During the onslaught, one of them yelled: “Let’s just blow his kneecaps out and kill the girl”.
The victim’s face was beaten so badly he had to go to hospital, the court was told.
Williams’ role during the burglary was to stand guard at the victim’s father’s bedroom, the court heard.
The victim’s girlfriend was also punched in the face, the court was told.
The court heard the now deceased Reker told the victim’s dad he was “lucky he was there” or we “would’ve killed your son”.
Reker also threatened he and his former bikie mates would return to “get what you owe us” and “we’ll take your bikes to”.
A bikie thug also threatened the victim not to go to the cops or they will “kill your missus and your kids”.
Echo Taskforce members raided Williams’ Carrum Downs but the bikie was nowhere to be found.
Instead police seized a firearm, knuckledusters, ammunition and Finks clothing from the property.
Williams, who has spent 611 days on remand, was arrested after he handed himself into police.
The court heard Williams, a painter, hoped to work as a landscaper and reunite with his partner and child once released from prison.
Egglestone, 31, pleaded guilty in the County Court last month to conspiracy to commit burglary and intentionally cause injury.
Williams, who also pleaded guilty to intentionally cause injury and possession of an unregistered category A longarm, was jailed for a maximum five years.
Egglestone will be sentenced at a later date.
All charges against Reker were dropped after he was found dead in his cell at the Ravenhall Correctional Centre, with authorities saying he took his own life, in December 2019.
Martinow, 42, from South Australia, was last year jailed for three years and eight months for his involvement, after pleading guilty to aggravated burglary and intentionally causing injury.
Police this month dropped the aggravated burglary charges against Wanakore-Moeke, 36, from Frankston, and he instead pleaded guilty to four counts of possessing a drug of dependence and was convicted and issued a $750 fine.
