Former Mongol bikie Jason Addison badly bashed
The brutal bashing of a former bikie suggests there is an organised campaign against a group that left the gang earlier this year.
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The brutal bashing of veteran former Mongols bikie Jason Addison at a motorcycle show at the Heathcote Park Raceway near Bendigo a fortnight ago now appears to be part of an organised campaign against those who left the gang this year.Addison, 57, was attacked by a group of men at the drag strip on the weekend before last.
Addison, 57, was attacked by a group of men at the drag strip on the weekend before last.
Addison was among the group of Victorian Mongols – including former state president Toby Mitchell and strongman Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim – kicked out of the gang in a purge orchestrated by national president Nick “The Knife” Forbes.
Addison, of Echuca, was a former Bandido who patched over to the Mongols and played a crucial role in running the gang’s work along the NSW-Victoria border.
His front teeth were knocked out and his face left swollen and bruised after the attack.
It is not known if he is co-operating with police.
The attempt on Abdulrahim’s life on Saturday casts the bashing of Addison in a new light, and suggests the possibility of an organised campaign against the group that left the Mongols early in the year.
Mitchell and his allies were expelled from the Mongols for disloyalty, accused of “running with dogs” (associating with police witnesses).
In the weeks following his expulsion, Mitchell, a social media darling, began posting a series of cryptic but provocative Instagram posts, further fuelling tensions.
A Melbourne underworld source said: “They (Mitchell and his allies) are all targets now.”
A Mongols source denied the gang was responsible for the attack on Addison.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the attack on Addison, urging them to make a confidential report to Crime Stoppers.
Addison’s links to Mitchell go back years.
Mitchell was a senior member of the Bandidos before defecting to the Mongols in 2013, while Addison was a long-serving Bandidos president and, like dozens of members of that gang, followed Mitchell to the Mongols.
The spate of violence against Mitchell’s allies will fuel fears his online trash-talking might materialise into reprisal attacks.
In April he wrote: “Just because no moves are being posted doesn’t mean no moves are being made … remember that.”
He also posted: “The best revenge is letting people see they ain’t stop s--t.”
Although Abdulrahim’s inner circle has speculated the two masked gunmen who tried to kill him had been sent by the Mongols, he is a notoriously divisive figure in the underworld and has a complex web of allies and detractors, including bikies and figures involved in Middle Eastern organised crime.
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