Major players and figures in the Bandidos motorcycle club
BANDIDOS BIG GUNS: What follows is a selected list of some of the major players and figures in the Bandidos.
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BANDIDOS BIG GUNS: What follows is a selected list of some of the major players and figures in the Australia branches of the Bandidos.
ANTHONY “SNODDY” SPENCER
Former Comanchero "Snoddy" Spencer formed the Australian arm of the Bandidos after falling out with his former mentor, Comanchero boss Jock Ross in 1983.
The US club wanted to expand their drug business and gave Spencer their blessing, with his group becoming the first international chapter.
But hostilities between Spencer’s new and old clubs erupted a year later, resulting in the 1984 Milperra Massacre. Spencer took his own life awaiting trial over the massacre.
The bikie sergeant-at-arms was nearly killed after being shot five times in the back outside a Brunswick gym last November.
At the time of the shooting Mitchell was dating Tony Mokbel’s former partner Danielle McGuire. No charges have yet been laid over the incident.
ROBERT KIM SLOAN
The national secretary and high-profile Geelong chapter member was sentenced to three years’ jail in 2001 for drug trafficking but released five months later when he won an appeal.
The charges were eventually dropped amid corruption claims against the drug squad.
Sloan received a $385,000 payout from police after launching civil action, claiming the drugs were planted and he had been wrongfully jailed.
ROSS “ROSCO” BRAND
Brand, a long-serving club enforcer, was shot dead in a hail of bullets outside a Bandidos clubhouse in Geelong in October 2008.
A member of Rebels affiliate group Death Before Dishonour, John Bedson, fired the shots as retaliation after an altercation between Bandidos and Rebels members at the Geelong Cup.
Brand was killed and another Bandido injured as they stepped outside the building.
STEVE UTAH
Former Bandido insider now living overseas after turning informer and lifting the lid on alleged club violence.
Utah claimed in a book that the Bandidos killed Geelong father-of-four Earl Mooring in 2000.
He also detailed Mr Mooring’s grisly demise in a TV interview.
Utah claimed two Bandidos tried to extract $160,000 from Mr Mooring by torturing him with a hammer for hours before he was killed.
Utah was charged with the murder in 2004 but the charge was later dropped.
A coroner last year found remains located in NSW were those of Mr Mooring, but was unable to find anyone responsible.
MICHAEL “KAOS” KULAKOWSKI
Club president, also known as Mike K, 41, was shot dead along with Sergeant at Arms Sash Milenkovic, 33, and club member Rick Destoop, 24, in the basement of a Sydney nightclub in 1997 by Rebels bikers.
The feud was not gang-related, but over a woman.
Kulakowski was sent to help broker peace talks between warring European arms of the Bandidos and Hells Angels in the mid-1990s.
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