By Tammy Mills
Is this Australia's best looking bikie?
Hasan Topal was signed to Chadwicks modelling agency, and, police allege, the Comancheros.
Hasan Topal in a photo from last year.Credit: Instagram
Last Friday, it went from "Blue Steel" to boys in blue for the chisel-featured 27-year-old, when he was arrested by the anti-bikie Echo taskforce.
Mr Topal faced Melbourne's Magistrates Court this week accused of breaching his bail and refusing them access to seven mobile phones police seized when they arrested him.
Hasan Topal was on the books for elite modelling agency Chadwicks.Credit: Instagram
Police allege Mr Topal was involved in a wild Comanchero-on-Comanchero shirts-off brawl at Capital Men's Club, a strip club in Canberra, while on a national run last month.
Mr Topal is captured on CCTV footage smashing glass into his own forehead and taking off his T-shirt before re-entering the fight where he punched and kicked a semi-conscious associate, Detective Senior Constable Courtney Hughes told the court.
He said club national president Mick Murray can be seen in the footage standing in the background watching the affray and making no attempt to control the situation.
"The fight continues in the background until a female can be heard repeatedly screaming loudly over the fighting males 'F---ing stop!'," Detective Senior Constable Hughes said.
Police allege Hasan Topal was an office bearer in the Comancheros.Credit: Instagram
The brawl broke-up before police arrived to find the floor littered with broken glass and rubbish and Comanchero members who refused to talk, he said.
The court was told Mr Topal was on bail over extortion and assault charges over an incident at a luxury hire car company in Richmond in May.
Police say he went to Dream Drives to recover $20,000 relating to a business contract dispute and allegedly demanded money from staff, saying: "I'm going to start beating you guys up one by one, and then destroy your cars one by one."
A staff member suffered a fractured eye socket after he was punched, police claim.
In an unsuccessful bid for bail, Mr Topal's barrister Leonard Hartnett said the charges would be hotly contested. He said his client denies the extortion allegations and the Richmond business had been under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission over allegations of scamming.
As for the brawl in Canberra, he said Mr Topal acted in self-defence.
Mr Hartnett also took issue with the allegation his client was the treasurer of the Comancheros.
"It's not a secret society ... it's not a clandestine group," he said.
"Police want to draw an inference to blacken my client's name ... He can't be pilloried because he's alleged to be a member of a motorcycle group."
Mr Hartnett said his client was a self-employed personal trainer and he had been working as a male model.
A friend with whom Mr Topal once ran a bespoke gym in Brunswick offered a surety of $5000 in an effort to guarantee the court he would not breach conditions if he was bailed again.
Magistrate Ross Maxted said the amount offered was completely unacceptable. He also found it hard to accept Mr Topal acted in self-defence in the Canberra fight.
"He had opportunities to withdraw from that, even if it was self-defence the first time," Mr Maxted said.
Mr Topal was remanded to face court again next month.