Deadline: Hasan Topal in demand for wrong reasons

Comanchero, male model and murder suspect Hasan Topal is in demand, for all the wrong reasons. Andrew Rule and Mark Buttler with the latest crime buzz.

There’s a long list of people wishing for Hasan Topal’s return to Melbourne.

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

A HUNK OF TROUBLE

Hasan “Hunky” Topal’s departure to the northern hemisphere has been described as “long-term”, which is code for “as long as the money lasts.”

But things could get a bit tricky for the model-turned-Comanchero if he has to come back to Melbourne from Greece or Turkey or wherever he is.

It will be standing room only at the Tullamarine arrivals lounge when all the interested parties gather.

For a start, there will be two homicide squad crews, fascinated by what the smouldering Topal knows about the separate mistaken-identity killings of Muhammed Yucel and Zabi Ezedyar in 2017.

Topal in his modelling days.

Hasan Topal.

But the cops might be jostling for space with some gangland types, including the intended targets of those tragically bungled hits, who happen to be Mongols.

Then there is the Comanchero club mate wounded in a 2017 shooting — and a couple of Bandidos shot on top of the Bolte Bridge around the same period.

The folks at a Richmond luxury car hire firm won’t be sending a limousine for Topal.

They’ll be happy if he doesn’t come back at all.

Around the same time as the spate of shootings, he stormed the car business and attacked a worker, fracturing an eye socket, in a dispute over a $20,000 deposit.

The Burnley St property was later peppered with gunshots police say were fired by the same gun used in the Ezedyar murder, the Comanchero shooting and the Bandido ambush.

The Harley-riding fraternity must be wondering if Hunky Topal knows more about hairspray than hit men.

JUST ANOTHER LITTLE KILLING

What’s a life worth?

Not even three years behind bars, if you are the violent, drunken, drug-abusing, lying wife basher who ran over Alicia Little the day she was leaving him after four years of abuse.

Hard to believe, but there it is.

Three days before Christmas of 2017, Charles McKenzie Ross Evans drove his ute into the woman he had been abusing the way he had abused his first wife and children years before.

Alicia Little’s friends and family believe Evans staged an accidental collision.

Deadline — like the police — weren’t at the scene so we’re not saying what happened.

Charles Evans is led into the Supreme Court. Picture: AAP

But intent to kill couldn’t be proven beyond reasonable doubt, which is why a court convicted the habitually violent Evans of a driving offence rather than some form of homicide.

Proof of Evans’s “dog” reputation inside is that he was quickly transferred to Ararat to do time with the bottom of the prison hierarchy: sex offenders, informers and bent police.

It seems authorities became aware that Alicia, a former trapeze artist, was a member of one of Australia’s oldest circus and carnival clans — people with contacts from coast to coast.

The courts were obliged to treat her death as an accident but, behind bars, others weren’t inclined to be so lenient towards Evans.

Alicia's mother Lee and son Ariki. Picture: Mark Stewart

In with child molesters and sex offenders in Ararat, men such as paedophile Gerald Ridsdale and Richard Charles Witham, Evans dodged the sort of bashing he handed out to the women in his life.

On June 20 last year, he was transferred to NSW and released to live in the country town of Forbes with a relative.

Which was good for Evans and bad for Forbes.

His former wife, who is still terrified of him, called Alicia Little’s mother Lee to say she had seen Evans in the local supermarket one day.

That was bad enough.

But he has also been spotted on dating sites.

Who will be his next victim?

COUNCILS PICK EMPTY POCKETS

Melbourne’s main roads look more like the Tanami Track at present as the lockdown keeps drivers home and many people out of work.

But rust never sleeps and neither do greedy local councils, unless it’s VicRoads.

Normally bustling Whitehorse Rd in Balwyn, for instance, has been reduced to a trickle of traffic — but that hasn’t stopped the enforcement of clearway regulations by whichever rate-collecting, fine-imposing bureaucracy ignores reality to extort money from motorists.

A car is towed mid-lockdown on Whitehorse Rd.

Our spy spotted a tow truck carting away a lonely vehicle there on Monday night.

“What the (expletive deleted) are they clearing the way for?” he asked.

Zealous officialdom also recently surfaced in an inner suburb after a woman was found dead in her car.

Dead or alive, it didn’t matter. The deceased’s car was booked by a grey ghost, presumably unaware of the circumstances.

Experience suggests that death might not be a good enough excuse to have the infringement laid to rest.

TINFOIL HAT LIVES MATTER

Spare a thought for hundreds of police forced to enforce lockdown rules at yet another anti-vaxxer rally in Flagstaff Gardens at the weekend.

One ill-at-ease woman, arrested and fined for obvious reasons, took aim at members of what she called “MSM” — that’s “mainstream media” for anyone who doesn’t wrap their phone in tinfoil to fool Big Brother.

The abbreviation is one of several that are a bit too popular among the conspiracy theorists out there.

Police arrest a woman at an anti-vaxxer rally in Flagstaff Gardens. Picture: Alex Coppel

“Whoever is working for the mainstream media, you can all piss off — you’re all criminals,” she shouted.

As she did the walk of shame back to her car, she abused an award-winning Herald Sun photographer: “You’re the stupid one with your mask on, idiot!”

Meanwhile, the law enforcement machine proved well-oiled after so many illegal rallies in 2020. Police even bring trestle tables to form makeshift processing stations to issue fines.

It wouldn’t be a Victorian lockdown without the token Guy Fawkes mask-wearing covidiot turning up. The self-proclaimed “freedom fighter” was outraged to hear that the plastic dress-up mask (with nose and mouth holes) doesn’t comply with the health rules.

But Herald Sun spy Brianna Travers was more shocked to see another (male) covidiot’s mobile phone holster attached to a white belt, not to mention the “speed-dealer” sunglasses. Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

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