Major players and figures in the Hells Angels
WHAT follows is a selected list of some of the major players and figures in the Australia branches of the Hells Angels.
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HELLS ANGELS BIG GUNS: What follows is a selected list of some of the major players and figures in the Australia branches of the Hells Angels.
CHRISTOPHER WAYNE HUDSON
CBD shooter Hudson is serving 35 years’ jail for murdering Melbourne lawyer Brendan Keilar and seriously injuring three others during a violent bender in 2007.
Hudson had defected to the Hells Angels from the Finks the year before.
When Finks members tracked him to a Gold Coast kickboxing tournament in 2006, they shot him in the face and back as a vicious brawl erupted in full view of 1800 spectators.
STEPHEN “STIFF” ROGERS
Founding president of the Hells Angels chapter in Campbellfield, and former sergeant-at-arms of the Thomastown Nomads chapter. Rogers has been a fully patched member since 1984.
PETER “SKITZO” HEWAT
Sergeant-at-arms of East County chapter, Hewat runs a transport company and is known in the world of truck racing.
DEREK WAINOHU
Sydney chapter member who took on NSW anti-bikie laws in 2011 and won.
He boarded a flight from Melbourne in 2009 and ran into rival Comanchero boss Mick Hawi, and when they landed members of both clubs descended en masse. One man was killed in the brawl that then erupted in the departures hall.
Wainohu worked for years as a RTA safety expert in NSW.
PETER ZERVAS
Zervas was jailed for eight months over his part in a shocking brawl at Sydney Airport in 2009 involving 12 Comancheros and five Hells Angels.
His brother Anthony was bashed to death in front of shocked travellers.
A week after the airport brawl the war continued with Zervas shot in the chest and shoulder while waiting in his car outside his parents Sydney home.
Zervas declined to help police investigate his brother’s death.
TERRENCE TOGNOLINI
A former president of the Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels.
The vicious standover man is suspected of being involved in the contract killing of Bendigo mother Vicki Jacobs, who was shot dead while sleeping beside her young son in 1999.
In 2007 other Hells Angels inked over his tattoos and bashed him after learning he was the subject of child sex allegations. He is now serving eight year’s jail for blackmail, assault and the sex offences.
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