Charlie Teo’s daughter charged over bikie founder Jock Ross crash
CCTV allegedly shows Nicola Teo, the daughter of prominent neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, driving up to 200m on the wrong side of the road before colliding head-on with a former Comanchero bikie boss, leaving him in critical condition.
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A distraught and “shaking” Nicola Teo, the daughter of prominent neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, crouched over the former bikie boss she had allegedly just hit with her 4WD and provided vital first aid, according to the first witness at the scene of the crash.
Police are investigating whether Nicola Teo, the daughter of prominent neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, was looking at her phone when she allegedly travelled up to 200m on the wrong side of the road, colliding head-on with former Comanchero bikie boss William George “Jock” Ross’s Harley Davidson on Wednesday.
Ms Teo, 24, allegedly gave police a version of events but declined to be formally interviewed after the crash at Lower McDonald, which left 76-year-old Ross in a critical condition.
She has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, not keep left of dividing line and not giving particulars to police.
Resident Jeff Stewart, who heard the collision and knows Ross, revealed how Ms Teo helped the man at the centre of 1984’s notorious Milperra Massacre.
“She’s basically shaking,” Mr Stewart said. “She helped out by kneeling down and holding him still from behind just to make sure he didn’t move. Because he wanted to turn, we didn’t want him to turn in case of spinal injuries.”
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Mr Stewart ran inside his home, grabbed his first aid kit and went to Ross, now a rural firefighter and a fixture of the community, who gave Mr Stewart’s daughter a bike.
Two other neighbours, Keith and Sharon, also came to help.
“Sharon and Keith held him still while I pulled the bike up and put it on the sidestand because the bike was still on top of him,” he said.
“They tried to keep him awake, keep him calm and ask him questions until the CareFlight came.
“He had a break in his lower left leg, it was obvious, even with his trousers on.”
Crash Investigation Unit Detective Inspector Katie Orr said Ms Teo allegedly crossed to the wrong side of Settlers Rd about 3.30pm.
“Police will allege that she was travelling on the wrong side of the road for some distance which resulted in a crash occurring … (we) believe about 100m to 200m but that still forms part of the investigation.”
Asked whether police suspect Ms Teo had been on her phone, Det-Insp Orr said “that’ll form part of our investigation, all aspects of the investigation will be looked at”.
She said Ms Teo, who was travelling with a juvenile in the front passenger seat, declined a police interview.
“She declined to be interviewed … she provided a version but she didn’t provide any further information (on) the circumstances surrounding the crash,” Det-Insp Orr said.
Mr Stewart said Ms Teo’s Toyota LandCruiser was carrying a young male and four dogs.
The group of first responders helped paramedics get through a nearby fence so they could load Ross into a rescue helicopter in an adjacent field.
He was flown to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition with serious lower leg and internal injuries. He remains in intensive care following surgery on Thursday morning and is expected to remain in hospital to recover.
Police arrested Ms Teo before taking her to Windsor Police Station for mandatory drug and alcohol tests.
During her time at the police station she was interviewed by officers from the Metropolitan Crash Investigations Unit and before later being charged.
She was given conditional bail to appear in Windsor Local Court on October 17.
Police imposed bail conditions on Ms Teo, including that she must not occupy the driver’s seat of a car, come within 500m of any international port of departure, she must notify police if she changes address and must also be of good behaviour.
Ms Teo, who posts prolifically on social media about her love of dogs, did not comment on the incident as she arrived home in Queens Park this morning with a number of dogs.
According to social media, Ms Teo runs a dog walking business called Eastside Dogs.
On the business’s Facebook page the profile picture is a photo of her in a bathing suit holding a dog. Services including “pack walks” around the streets and parks of Sydney.
“Happy pups on their pack walk!” she posted in one photo overlooking the ocean with five canines.
Her business also says it offers all day adventure hiking and nature walks complete with pick up and drop off.
Eastside Dogs also says it provides training for dogs who need a solo walk or some help with a particular behavioural issue. “Price depending on severity,” the Facebook page says.
“Understanding dogs isn’t about finding the human in them, it’s about connecting with the animal in you,” the page says in one post.
Ms Teo also posted photos of a LandCruiser with a group of dogs writing: “there is something about #dogsandtrucks”.
Ross founded the Comanchero bikies and started the infamous Milperra Massacre on Father’s Day in 1984, which left seven people dead and himself with a gunshot wound to the head, resulting in brain injury and vision loss
The massacre was a firearms battle between the Comanchero and the Bandidos where seven people died and 28 were injured on Father’s Day.
In 1987, a jury found Ross to be the instigator for the massacre and he was found guilty of murder. He later had his murder charge downgraded to manslaughter.
He was released from jail in 1992 after serving five years and three months of his sentence.
War had been formally declared between the NSW Bandido and Comanchero gangs on August 8, 1994, a few weeks before the Milperra confrontation. It was simply a matter of time before the rival gangs clashed.
Shotguns and automatic weapons blazed during the conflict in the Viking Tavern’s carpark, attended by most of Sydney’s motorcycle fraternity.
Blokes used baseball bats, machetes, chains, iron bars, knives and knuckledusters at close range.
The shocking battle left six bikies — four Comanchero and two Bandidos — and an innocent 14-year-old girl dead.
The girl, Leanne Walters, was killed by a rifle shot.
Four of the bikies died from shotgun blasts and two from .357 magnum rifle injuries.
They were: Bandidos Greg “Shadow” Campbell and Mario “Chopper” Ciantar, and Comanchero Phillip “Leroy” Jeschke, Ivan “Sparrow” Romcek, Robert “Foggy” Lane and Tony “Dog” McCoy.
Twenty-one people were injured.
The many men jailed for their part in the chaotic clash were released from prison well before the massacre’s 10-year anniversary came around.
Nine men — Ross, Gary Annakin, Glen Eaves, Robert Heeney, John Hennessey, Raymond Kucler, Tony Melville, Ian White and Terrence Parker — were originally convicted of murder and sentenced to terms ranging from 18 years to life imprisonment.
All subsequently won appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal and had their murder convictions quashed and reduced to manslaughter.
Originally published as Charlie Teo’s daughter charged over bikie founder Jock Ross crash
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