‘You don’t know what we’ve just done’: Bikies’ alleged clean-up order after Jason De Ieso murder

A key witness in the murder trial of Jason De Ieso has revealed in court the clean-up orders he was allegedly given when handed a duffel bag by a group of bikies.

A key trial witness has told a jury he was handed a duffel bag after the alleged murder of Jason De Ieso and told “make sure you clean this and then destroy it, you don’t know what we’ve just done”.

The witness told the Supreme Court he was summonsed to a Salisbury Highway house on the day Mr De Ieso was murdered and given orders.

He told the court the group of men at the home included Ross Montgomery, Seywan Moradi, Nicholas Sianis, Kyle Pryde and Daniel Jalleh. He said the three Alzuain brothers – Husain, Mohamed and Musa – were also in the house. Each of the named men have pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of Mr De Ieso, who was gunned down in November 2012 amid an escalating bikie war between the Hells Angels and Finks.

Jason De Ieso murder accused (back row) Kyle Pryde, Nicholas Sianis, Seywan Moradi, (centre) Mohamed Alzuain, Musa Alzuain, Husain Alzuain, (front), Daniel Jalleh and Ross Montgomery. Picture: Timothy Ide

When he went to leave, the witness said he saw guns – which believed to include assault rifles and a shot gun – had been placed under the carpet in the boot of his car. He said he was told to drop them to another man.

While completing his orders, the witness told the jury he was called back to meet Musa Alzuain at a reserve, where he was handed a duffel bag and told to clean and destroy the contents.

“When he handed me the bag his words were ‘make sure you clean this and then destroy it, you don’t know what we’ve just done’.”

The witness said he “knew” the bag contained guns because when he put it down he “heard the metal clunking”.

He said at the time Musa Alzuain, who was a close associate of the Hells Angels but not a member, appeared to be “panicky, shook up, distraught … not his usual self”.

Two days later, he again was called to meet and have lunch with Musa Alzuain and was given a revolver inside a holster and asked to accompany him to get a tattoo. While waiting, the witness told the jury Musa Alzuain had told him to watch the front door or the parlour.

The witness said he was told to hold onto the weapon “just in case they come past and do what we’ve done to them”.

Later, when the witness tried to return the gun, he was told to look after it. But, days later he police caught him with the weapon in a car after being refused entry into a CBD nightclub.

When he returned home, the witness said Musa and Mohamed Alzuain came to visit.

“They were very angry and Mohamed asked me ‘did you snitch, did you dob on us?’,” the witness said.

Images of a revolver tendered during the trial of eight accused charged with the murder of Jason De Ieso. The revolver was seized from the key witness just days after De Ieso’s death but is not alleged to be the weapon which fired the fatal shot. It has been linked to the scene. Picture: Supplied

The court has previously heard that revolver had been linked to the scene of Mr De Ieso’s murder but was not the weapon which fired the fatal shot.

The witness said he saw Musa Alzuain again a couple of days later and asked him if the weapon was used in Mr De Ieso’s murder.

“He told me … it would have been shot at somewhere around the place but not at him.

“I got pretty angry and I’m pretty sure I swore at him and walked off.

“I was pretty angry that a firearm that was used in a murder was given to me.”

In the days that followed, the witness said he was asked to meet with Musa Alzuain but felt his life was at risk and contacted police. A call to police was played to the jury.

“I got scared,” the witness said.

He said he later made an effort to “separate myself from the club and the people that I was once good friends with”.

Jason De Ieso was shot dead in a Pooraka paint shop in 2012. Picture: Family

CCTV before the brutal murder of Jason De Ieso at his panel beating business in Pooraka in 2012. Picture: SAPOL

Earlier, the court heard that weapons, a tray of drugs and alcohol were laid out and hoodies were being handed out at the Salisbury Highway house where the group of men gathered before allegedly storming and murdering Jason De Ieso amid a bikie war.

The witness told the jury he was summonsed to the house on the day Mr De Ieso was murdered and given orders.

But when he walked into the house with a friend a gun was pointed in his face.

“I looked up to see (Husain Alzuain) was holding a weapon, pointing it at both of us, laughing at us,” the witness said.

He said the gun – which he believed was a submachine gun with a suppressor attached – was held at him for a couple of seconds before putting Husain Alzuain put it down and continued to laugh.

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After that the witness said he felt on edge “and wanted to leave the place straight away”.

The witness said Husain Alzuain then instructed him to visit a bike shop owner and tattoo parlour to tell them to shut down for the day because there could be “some trouble”.

On a table inside the home he saw a black duffel bag, “heaps of pairs of gardening gloves and firearms”.

He said the firearms included a “couple of pistols and a sawn-off rifle” and a holster but he could not recall seeing a revolver inside the holster.

He said he saw Ross Montgomery emerge from a bedroom to hand out hoodies of varying colours to a group of men, most of whom were sitting in the loungeroom.

The witness also described seeing a tray of drugs including cocaine and alcohol on a table, but it was “not a party atmosphere” inside the home.

“There was nothing unusual about drinking alcohol but the atmosphere of that place felt different. It didn’t feel like a party atmosphere,” he said.

“Everybody seemed a little bit on edge, everybody seemed a little but getting hyped up … like something was about to go down.”

The trial is continuing.

Originally published as ‘You don’t know what we’ve just done’: Bikies’ alleged clean-up order after Jason De Ieso murder