Woman found guilty of murdering bikie ex-lover

LOUISE Spiteri-Ahern, the scorned lover of Rebels bikie Ray Pasnin who was shot dead in his mother’s driveway in 2013, has been found guilty of his murder.

ONE of two scorned lovers of a murdered bikie has been found guilty of organising a hit man to kill her former lover.

Louise Spiteri-Ahern, 27, was found guilty of his execution-style murder in the NSW Supreme Court.

She fought back tears after the verdict was read out in court and told a supporter in the public gallery not to cry.

The “bitterly angry” and “obsessed” Sydney woman boasted of organising the murder of Rebels bikie Raymond Pasnin saying, “He’s dead. He was shot. I organised it,” her trial heard.

Mr Pasnin, 27, was shot dead on the evening of October 30, 2013.

After leaving his mother’s Pendle Hill home in western Sydney with his fiancee, a man emerged from the darkness with a gun and shot Mr Pasnin.

Ms Spiteri-Ahern paid the shooter Daniel Haile $4000 just months after she had allegedly hoped that they would reconcile.

On Thursday, NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman found Spiteri-Ahern guilty of murder after a months-long judge-alone trial.

Louise Spiteri-Ahern (above) fought back tears after being found guilty of murdering her ex-lover, bikie Ray Pasnin in 2013.

Police at the Pendle Hill crime scene after Ray Pasnin’s killing in October 2013. Picture: Bill Hearne

But he found another former lover of Mr Pasnin, April Barber, 30, not guilty of being an accessory before the fact for the murder.

Amin Zraika, a partner of Ms Barber at the time of Mr Pasnin’s murder, was found not guilty of concealing a serious indictable offence.

A bitterly angry Spiteri-Ahern had a difficult relationship with Mr Pasnin, according to a Crown opening statement tendered during the trial.

Mr Pasnin had spent time in jail in 2013 after she accused him of stabbing her in the leg, which he maintained was not true.

Spiteri-Ahern sent him letters in jail which revealed her obsession with him and that she hoped they would reunite upon his release, the statement said.

It alleged she was motivated by “anger, possessiveness, jealousy, vengeance and hatred” to solicit Mr Pasnin’s shooting.

Not guilty: April Barber. Picture: Ben Rushton

Not guilty: Amin Zraika. Picture: Ben Rushton

Justice Rothman on Thursday said Spiteri-Ahern had a motive having expressed significant animosity towards her ex.

Evidence was given during the trial that Spiteri-Ahern had confessed organising the murder while smoking ice with another woman she had met in a drug rehab facility in Sydney.

The woman told the court Spiteri-Ahern had said “it was because of me he was shot” and “I organised it”.

She then allegedly said it was “like a drive-by shooting” and it had been carried out by “a friend of the gang”.

In a phone call between the woman and Spiteri-Ahern played during the trial, Spiteri-Ahern says, “He’s dead. Did you hear about it? It was on the news” and then mentions the “Pendle Hill shooting”.

Spiteri-Ahern will face a sentence hearing in April 2018.

Daniel Haile has already been convicted over the shooting and was sentenced in 2016 to at least 24 years in jail.