Notorious Crime Family gangster Jimmey Barkho fronts court

Gangster Jimmey Barkho aimed a revolver at a French bulldog, telling it “don’t get smart with me” and demanding to know “where the money at”, before pulling the trigger.

Notorious Crime Family gangster Jimmey Barkho was filmed aiming a revolver at a small French bulldog.

Notorious Crime Family gangster Jimmey Barkho was filmed aiming a revolver at a small French bulldog, saying “don’t get smart with me” before pulling the trigger.

The colourful gangland figure fronted Broadmeadows Magistrates Court on Tuesday where he pleaded for a merciful sentence on weapons offences, claiming he was a changed man.

Police arrested and charged Barkho, 32, in June last year after identifying him as the gun-wielding man who was in a series of photos and videos found on a USB seized as part of a separate investigation.

Gang-busting detectives were able to pinpoint it was him through a distinctive tattoo on his forearm, and his voice.

“Don’t get smart with me, I’m the man with the thing in my hand,” Barkho could be heard saying as he pointed a .38 special Taurus branded revolver towards the pooch, which was in the arms of his associate.

“Where the money at?” he then added, before pulling the trigger.

The gun was not loaded with bullets.

Further videos depicted Barkho posing in front of the mirror in the ensuite of his Greenvale home while he racked a 9mm CZ semiautomatic handgun — a weapon that was reported stolen from a storage unit in March 2013.

His possession of the guns — the videos reportedly taken in 2020 and 2021 — was in breach of a firearm prohibition order issued to him in October 2019.

Following his arrest, the muscle man urinated over the walls and floor of the cell at Broadmeadows police station, sparking a $434.50 clean up bill.

He pleaded guilty to firearm possession charges as well as dealing in proceeds of crime and disrupting the good order of a police jail.

In pushing for a lenient punishment, Barkho’s lawyer Mark Kelly said his client had turned his back on his criminal ways, addressed his drug addiction and returned to his Christian faith.

Mr Kelly said Barkho had spoken in his recent assessment to see if he was suitable for a community-based order of how he is now “holding myself accountable to God”.

“I was not accountable to anything before — and that is why I didn’t care about anything I did,” Barkho said.

But 33 days on remand last year, followed with being bailed into a 90-day inpatient drug rehabilitation program was the wake up call he needed.

“Mr Barkho has genuinely changed his life from the preceding 15 years,” Mr Kelly said, adding that he shows “significant insight into his past behaviours” and the impact they have had on his family.

He has remained drug free and is now focused on being a good dad and husband to his daughter and wife, Mia Coory, he said.

Magistrate Stella Stuthridge told Barkho he had an “extraordinary history” before the court.

But she said his “frank conversations” about who he was and who he wanted to be in the future with the Community Correction Order assessor “show a growing insight” and “a real change in you”.

She ordered the 33 days he spent on remand be marked as time served and placed him on a two-year CCO, where he will have to complete 120 hours of unpaid community work.