Group to face trial over Bringelly kidnapping of Dillon Mancuso

A group of men is preparing to fight the allegations they kidnapped a former bikie (pictured) to hold him for ransom. Warning: Graphic content.

Dillon Mancuso was the alleged victim of a kidnapping.

The alleged kidnapping of and ransom demand for a former Lone Wolf bikie who was allegedly held for ransom will go to trial as eight people prepare to fight the charges.

In pictures obtained by The Daily Telegraph, a bloodied Dillon Mancuso lies prone with duct tape tightly wrapped over his eyes and across his face.

A group of men allegedly took him from his father’s Bringelly home on Jersey Rd about 3am on June 1 and held him in a warehouse for hours until police surrounded the place and he was freed.

At Campbelltown District Court on Monday, Brandon Gillett, Johann Saafi, Elijah Schaaf, Joseph Ayoub, Vaeluagaomatagy Feilo, Abbas Alitimeemy and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all pleaded not guilty to taking and detaining a person in company with intent to ransom and occasioning actual bodily harm.

Gillet, Saafi, Schaaf, Ayoub, Feilo, and the teen also pleaded not guilty to tampering with evidence with intent to mislead a judicial tribunal and destroying property in company using fire.

Alleged ransom picture of former bikie Dillon Mancuso. Picture: Supplied

The five accused also pleaded not guilty to specially aggravated break and enter and committing a serious indictable offence with a weapon.

A 31-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to being a principal in second degree to serious indictable offence of taking and detaining a person in company with intent to ransom occasion actual bodily harm.

Prosecutors allege Mr Mancuso and his family were asleep at their home at 2.57am on June 1, 2021 when two vehicles drove into the front yard.

Crime scene police at the Revesby factory unit where Mancuso was allegedly taken and held.

Dillon Mancuso, a former Lone Wolf bikie, was the victim of the alleged kidnapping.

They further allege a group of men alighted and forcefully broke the door open and entered the house while they had their faces covered with clothing.

It is also alleged the group then searched the home for Mr Mancuso, and during the hunt his father was allegedly assaulted.

Mr Mancuso was allegedly forced out of the home and taken to a warehouse in Revesby.

At 8.46am, police arrived at the warehouse and began surveillance, before operatives from the NSW Police Tactical Operations Unit contained the scene and called on the occupants to exit.

The victim was sent out the front but a group of people remained in the location where fires were allegedly lit within the unit in a bid to destroy evidence.

The group of eight men arraigned at Campbelltown Court will face Downing District Court on November 18, where a trial date will be set. The trial is estimated to take four to six weeks.

Originally published as Group to face trial over Bringelly kidnapping of Dillon Mancuso