‘Say I’m sorry’: Prisoner denounces his gang in bizarre grovelling apology call
An accused Melbourne gunman has been forced to say “f--k Brothers for Life” in a bizarre phone call to Sydney underworld figures from prison, after he insulted rapper Ay Huncho.
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An accused Melbourne gunman was forced to make a grovelling apology and denounce his gang in a bizarre jailhouse phone call to Sydney underworld figures.
The jailed Victorian appeared to be under severe duress as he got in touch with men who sources say were from the Alameddine family crime network in New South Wales.
At one stage, he was forced to say the words “f--- Brothers for Life”, a gang he is suspected of joining as it muscled up in Melbourne earlier this year as part of the city’s tobacco wars.
The Herald Sun has been told the inmate had caused offence by insulting Ay Huncho, a rapper with allegedly close links to the Alameddines.
Hostility is immediately apparent as one of those on the other end of the line barks: “I’m not your f----n’ n----r, bro, you f----n’ dog.”
The clearly reluctant prisoner, who is on remand over a firearms incident, is repeatedly ordered to make himself heard and expand his apology.
“Say it f----n’ louder and apologise to Ay Huncho. Say, ‘I am sorry, Ay Huncho’,” he is told.
Ay Huncho, whose real name is Ali Younes, is a rapper with a big following and allegedly a senior figure in the Alameddine network.
He is currently on bail of $1.8m after being charged, with others, over the kidnapping and bashing of a man at Granville in January.
Ay Huncho’s manager Tom Birodi put up a $1.1m surety and the artist’s mother tipped in $700,000.
After the court freed him, Ay Huncho jumped on social media platform TikTok and said, “now I’m back home ... a lot of energies have changed”.
This was interpreted as a reference to rivals who had been talking about him while he was on remand.
The Alameddines are the Sydney underworld’s most formidable group and have for years been linked to murders and high-level drug trafficking.
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