Deadline: Bikie in slammer as ‘free man’ after finding God

A Bandido enforcer is the latest in a long line of crims to be seduced by the religious power of prison bars. Andrew Rule and Mark Buttler with the latest crime buzz.

Police continue to be amazed at the religious power of prison bars.

Melbourne’s top crime writers Andrew Rule and Mark Buttler with their weekly dose of scallywag scuttlebutt.

BIKIE UNDY WASHED OF SIN

Prison officers, police and prosecutors continue to be amazed at the religious power of prison bars.

Crims who’ve hardly been near a church — except maybe to steal the lead from the roof — routinely find God in jail. Only to lose Him again when they get out.

Latest in a devout line of convert convicts is Lethal Lee Undy, the one time Bandido enforcer who left the south in 2013 for the quiet life of Port Douglas, where he opened a gym and a yoghurt shop.

Undy’s legit businesses went bankrupt in 2019 but good old Lee seemed to keep the wolf from the door.

Local cops, suspicious of unexplained income, had a good old look at his non-yoghurt activities and made a case against him for trafficking in cocaine. Amazing.

Lee Undy. Picture: Instagram

Undy left the south in 2013 for the quiet life of Port Douglas.

Not quite so amazing is that a co-offender lower down the supply chain got a notably light sentence for telling the tale against Undy, who copped eight years in the nick.

One reason he got so much time inside to think things over is that he not only was sprung with a kilo of cocaine but refused to surrender his telephone so police could trace his contacts.

But it’s all going to be all right, because Undy has found religion as well as porridge, push-ups and pin-ups.

We know this courtesy of former top Melbourne barrister, Robert Richter QC, who flew north to represent him.

Richter, alias “the Red Baron”, showed there were no hard feelings against the Christian branch religion following his problems defending Cardinal George Pell.

Richter, well-known for representing Mick Gatto way back, described his client as a reformed man of great Christian faith.

In fact, he suggested gravely, Undy intends to minister to other prisoners at Lotus Glen prison.

In a recent Instagram post to his followers, the almost Rev. Undy thanked God for making him the person he is today.

The drug dealer putting the penitent into penitentiary vows he will do jail time as a “free man”, despite lock, bars and razor wire.

“Pray that I will share the Gospel in there and that there will be a Revival in Lotus Glen … God bless yers. Please keep me in your prayers.”

Amen to that.

MOKBEL REVISITED

The young man doing a decade behind bars for doing over drug lord Tony Mokbel in jail now says the sentencing judge’s words “touched me.”

Eldea Teuira was referring to the stern words he got from County Court judge Liz Gaynor when she sentenced him and his offsider over stabbing Mokbel prison.

“When you’re 40, see what G-fam and the bros do for you,” Judge Gaynor said at the time, underlining the stupidity of doing crimes and big jail times on behalf of gang “brothers”.

Paramedics treat Tony Mokbel after he was attacked in Barwon Prison.

Judge Gaynor, known for speaking plainly, laid it on the line.

“You have a think about what your life’s gonna be. I’m saying that to you because you’re both so young. It is tragic to see two young lives dramatically crashing.”

Teuira was in the Magistrates’ Court last week over charges of assaulting a staff member in custody. After the matter was stood down because it had to go up to a higher court, Teuira and his lawyer Jo Swiney stayed on the court link to discuss what had happened.

When Swiney told her client he might end up going back before Judge Gaynor, Teuira said: “She gave me a good sentence — you know, I can’t complain. Her words sort of touched me.”

But not nearly as much as he and his mate touched Mokbel.

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