Deadline: Roberta Williams’ fondness for Hells Angels bikie made clear

Gangland widow Roberta Williams’ message to a jailed Hells Angels bikie will be keeping him warm during the long, cold nights inside.

The close friendship of Luke Moloney and Roberta Williams has been made clear.

Mark Buttler and Andrew Rule with the latest scallywag scuttlebutt.

You are an angel

The close friendship of Hells Angels strongman Luke Moloney and gangland widow Roberta Williams has been made clear in some recent social media posts.

“Bert” posted on her Instagram account last week in tribute to her bikie pal, who is behind bars at the minute after a succession of brushes with the law.

“The cards were stacked against us both. I’ll always love you for what it’s worth,” she wrote.

“Missing you, till the day you’re back here with me … I’ll play our song every single day. Love you more than ever.”

The message was followed with the hashtags #KoolHandLuke #Lukey #MyLife #OurLife @angelcity_mc.

The law is (chasing) an arse

Here’s a crook who really has a target on his arse.

On Monday — amid a wave of carjackings, knife incidents and a siege — an eagle-eyed Elwood local snapped him climbing over the back fence.

He’d clearly been looking for something to steal but only succeeded in putting on a rather off-putting display.

Fair to say the old builder’s cleavage was on full view as he scrambled to make his escape.

At around the same time, a man had carjacked a Volvo in Elwood after earlier ramming police cars in an Audi in St Kilda.

It is unclear whether the Elwood intruder is connected to a siege at Brighton hours later but that scenario does have a ring about it.

We’ve seen that alleged offender’s face but not his backside, so it’s hard to be conclusive.

A 44-year-old Melton man was arrested at that Cluden St scene and remains in custody.

Anyone who recognises the unidentified Elwood bum can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

A cheeky burglar puts on an off-putting display in Elwood.

Small cup jockey in big tiger snake plot

If Peter Bakos was not the smallest person ever to ride in the Melbourne Cup, then the smallest could have moonlighted as a garden gnome.

Even compared with child jockeys like Johnny Day, Nimblefoot’s winning rider in 1870, the flyweight Bakos was tiny. As a popular public speaker, he’d always stand on a chair to make the point that he was under “five foot”.

Deadline’s impeccable sources reveal that Bakos went to his grave never knowing that a supposed plot to kill him, or at least terrorise him, was actually just a joke gone wrong.

It happened like this. Back in the early 1970s, when George Hanlon (with his son Gary) was Victoria’s best trainer of stayers, Bakos rode work every day at Epsom, the old training track near Mordialloc.

Even compared with Johnny Day, who won the 1870 Melbourne Cup at aged 14, Peter Bakos was tiny. Picture: Supplied

A grumpy little man when not standing on chairs for money, Bakos would toss his saddle in the back of his car and hurry off straight after trackwork.

One morning, the Epsom humorists — allegedly led by late trainer Bon Hoysted — obtained a tiger snake from the nearby creek. Thinking they’d killed the snake, they tossed it in the back of Bakos’s car so he’d get a fright when he put his saddle in, or perhaps when he took his saddle out. Big joke.

What could go wrong?

Two things, as it turns out. Not only Bakos didn’t see the snake when he got in the car, but the snake wasn’t so much dead as a little dazed. So when Bakos drove into Melbourne’s biggest intersection at the corner of Springvale and Dandenong Rd, he was centimetres from causing a terrible crash when the snake slithered between his tiny legs. It was, after all, longer than he was.

Bakos hollered for the law. His firm (and reasonable) belief was that race-fixing gangsters out to get him had planted the snake. Police swarmed to the Epsom track to question witnesses to the “crime”, but no one had seen a thing and said even less.

That’s the way it stayed until Deadline winkled out the story this week.

Peter Bakos’ granddaughter Anna Bakos is a successful Queensland rider. Picture: John Gass

Gary Hanlon confirmed it recently. He says the main culprit, Bon Hoysted, suffered poetic justice soon after.

Some humorist planted skimpy women’s underclothes in the glovebox of Hoysted’s car, knowing his wife would find the “evidence” of his supposed skulduggery. So, 40 years before the Tiger Woods domestic bust up with a car and a golf iron, an enraged Mrs Hoysted locked the stableyard gate to stop Bon’s escape and attacked his car with a rake. Allegedly.

Bakos was a sharp wit. He once appeared on a TV racing show with a quiz segment. When asked “What is Cock-a-leeky” he retorted “A medical condition.”

HOOFNOTE: P.Bakos ran last of 29 in the 1958 Melbourne Cup on Neves, a 500/1 shot that carried 43kg. His (much taller and well liked) granddaughter Anna Bakos now rides successfully in Queensland. But the “underworld” connection lingers. One of Anna’s first winners was named Choppa.

‘Blind’ burglar plays possum

We often hear that crime is going through the roof and one Melbourne burglar has proved it’s true.

A Yarraville couple in their 70s were asleep in bed at their Francis St home last week when they were woken by noises that sounded like roof tiles being moved.

They then heard something bigger than a possum scrambling around in the roof space.

A bespectacled man in a black beanie then fell through the ceiling, apologised for what had just happened and bolted out the back door.

He’ll get his just deserts when Maribyrnong CIU detectives catch up with him but at least he can’t be accused of having bad manners. Just bad eyesight.

Question: Did the shortsighted tea-leaf have the wrong address?

The gang that couldn’t shoot straight… again

There’s shortsighted and then there’s naked criminal stupidity.

Melbourne seems to have an inexhaustible supply of bungling criminals who can’t carry out a simple plan.

From Hasan Topal to Roy Pollitt, they’ve been shooting and killing the wrong people for decades.

Even when they get the intended victim, like Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim earlier this year, the target survives and the aftermath is a monument to ineptitude.

Those responsible for the 2015 shooting of Thomastown family man Rashad Adra are right up there in the blunder stakes.

The Herald Sun last week had fresh details of how they blasted the Adra home with a machine gun, killing him and wounding his son as they slept.

Police revealed it was the same weapon used to shoot up another home a week earlier, narrowly missing a young girl.

Det. Sgt Simon Quinnel said those victims, who lived on the same street as the Adra family, were also not the shooters’ intended victims.

Chahine machine rolling

Sydney lawyer Mohammad Chahine hasn’t taken long to make his mark in Melbourne.

Deadline revealed mid-year that Chahine, known for a strong stable of big-name underworld clients in Sin City, was heading south to try his luck.

Sydney lawyer Mohammad Chahine. Picture: Instagram

Among the first to enlist his help was former Comanchero Domenic Luzza, who was sentenced last week for running an international drug trafficking syndicate.

Luzza was given a minimum four-year stretch after pleading guilty to importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.

That would have him back in circulation by the second-half of next year, given he’s already done three years on remand.

Only the most malcontented client would knock that result.

Chahine will be hoping for similar success with another Comanchero client, Tarek Zahed.

Zahed, who moved to Melbourne last year, was arrested and charged over a Sydney murder a few months ago.