Accused Love Machine gunman’s brother allegedly shouted threats

Hours before an accused gunman allegedly fired into a crowd outside Love Machine nightclub, his brother allegedly shouted “you’re all f---ed” when security kicked him out.

The UNDERAGE brother of an accused Love Machine gunman shouted “you’re all f---ed” when he was ejected just hours before a fatal drive-by shooting, a court has heard.

Jacob Elliott and Allan Fares pleaded not guilty to the murder of security guard Aaron Khalid Osmani, 37, and patron Richard Arow, 28, who were killed outside the Prahran shooting in 2019.

On the second day of a five-week Supreme Court trial, prosecutors allege when Mr Elliott’s younger half-brother Ali Maghnie was kicked out from the club by security guards he yelled: “You’re all f---ed; you wait, I’m coming back”.

Love Machine security guard Aaron Khalid Osmani was shot dead.

Love Machine shooting victim Richard Arow.

After his ejection, Mr Maghnie immediately called his underworld figure father, Nabil Maghnie, and told him he’d been bashed by security.

“You’ll see it on CCTV, he’s tumbled out the door by security… Ali is agitated by all that and there’s some kind of altercation over the road,” Prosecutor Pat Bourke told the court.

Phone taps and listening devices in Nabil Maghnie’s Docklands apartment picked up the conversation with his son.

“These guards kicked the f--- out of me… (they) grabbed me out of the club by the throat,” Ali Maghnie told his father.

He also spoke with his half-brother, who hours later with Mr Fares, drove in convoy towards Chapel St in a stolen black 4WD Porsche and a silver Suzuki Swift.

With Mr Fares behind the wheel, the Porsche drove past the nightclub five times before Mr Elliott allegedly held the gun out the window and fired four shots.

Jacob Elliott, 18, has been charged over the drive-by shooting. Picture: Facebook

Phone taps and listening devices in Nabil Maghnie’s Docklands apartment picked up the conversation with his son. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Forensic police examine items at the scene of the shooting outside Love Machine nightclub in Prahran in 2019.

CCTV played to the court showed Mr Osmani and Mr Arow talking to one another with their backs to the road when the Porsche slows down and opens fire on them from behind.

Dozens of shocked revellers fled into the club and up the road while the two men collapsed on the ground.

A third man, Moussa Hamka, was charged for covering up the crime by allegedly hiding the murder weapon - a .32 Calibre pistol - and for mistakenly torching the wrong Suzuki Swift.

“They are dumb c---s, blew up a Suzuki right next to this Suzuki,” Mr Elliott said in a tapped conversation.

Mr Elliott’s defence lawyer, Julie Condon, said there was no dispute her client fired the fatal shots but she argued he had no intention to murder.

“Ultimately, our submission is you will not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt as to the requisite murderous intention in order to find Jacob Elliot guilty,” she said.

The trial continues.