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Mongols sergeant-at-arms Robbie Hurmiz distrubring prison calls revealed

A disturbing jail phone call exchange between two Mongols bikies has been aired in court, revealing the intimidating behaviour of the sergeant-at-arms.

Mongol bikie Robbie Hurmiz disturbing jail phone calls to another club member have been revealed. Picture: Facebook.
Mongol bikie Robbie Hurmiz disturbing jail phone calls to another club member have been revealed. Picture: Facebook.

Prison calls of a Mongols sergeant-at-arms have revealed his plans to “smack the f**k” out of his girlfriend, a potential witness to an alleged daylight shooting, a court has heard.

Robbie Hurmiz, 24, was on Friday denied bail over accusations he “indiscriminately” shot a gun in a residential street at a man he “narrowly missed” and “could have killed”, on July 20 last year.

A court earlier heard Hurmiz — then the acting sergeant-at-arms of the Mongols Melbourne chapter — and two others lured the man to Nivea Terrace in South Morang because he’d been speaking to one of their ex-girlfriends.

In refusing Hurmiz’s bail application, a County Court judge cited phone calls he’d made from jail to the alleged president of the Mongols Melbourne Chapter, named “Joel Brown”, where they were recorded discussing witnesses to his upcoming trial.

Those witnesses included Hurmiz’s girlfriend, who owned a white Toyota Kluger allegedly recorded on CCTV at the shooting scene.

The woman hadn’t yet provided a statement to police.

“When I get out bro, I’m going to smack the f**k out of her,” the court heard Hurmiz was recorded saying to Brown on September 14 last year.

Brown replied: “100 per cent ... I swear on my life I’ll do it with you brother.”

Brown was allegedly recorded asking Hurmiz for permission to “pat” his girlfriend because “she tells me things”.

Police claim “patting” means to keep a potential witnesses on-side.

Hurmiz was found by the court to pose an unacceptable risk of committing further crimes.
Hurmiz was found by the court to pose an unacceptable risk of committing further crimes.
The case against Hurmiz could go to trial as early as September. Picture: Facebook.
The case against Hurmiz could go to trial as early as September. Picture: Facebook.

“You’ve got to let me pat, bro, with these jacks bro, because she’s in, I have to, brother,” Brown was recorded saying.

“Yeah, keep patting her,” Hurmiz replied.

Brown continued: “I’m just patting the c**t, right, the detectives are going to ring her.”

Hurmiz said: “Tell her I will take her out for dinner when I’m out, if you know what I’m trying to say.”

Other conversations between the pair referred to three other witnesses to the shooting, with police raising concerns that Hurmiz, if released into the community, could “intimidate witnesses”.

Judge Michael O’Connell said the prison calls provided “the basis for some concern as to interference in the course of justice”.

“They do not paint (Hurmiz) in a good light,” His Honour said of the recordings.

Hurmiz was found by the court to pose an unacceptable risk of committing further crimes, of endangering community safety and interfering with justice.

Reports handed to the court also showed how he’d told bail support staff that “all his friends are associated with the Mongols .... and he has no intention to forgo his association with them”.

Police claimed he had “general propensity ... to acquire, to possess and to use firearms, including long arms, handguns and shotguns”, and as the sergeant-at-arms, was “responsible for arming the gang”.

The case against Hurmiz, which could go to trial as early as September, was described by Judge O’Connell as “a very strong one”.

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