Bikies on a roll
mattd
mattd at useoz.com
Sun Dec 30 22:18:45 PST 2001
Some clubs you have to kill someone to get in.Mad Matts road warriors
demand that you kill a cop.
Police brace as bikies rally for run
By Layla Tucak
December 31, 2001
AS many as 250 Gypsy Jokers bikies are expected to set off from Perth on
their annual "run" today, stretching police resources on New Year's Eve.
West Australian police conceded yesterday they still did not know the
destination of the run, as gang members from across the country converged
on Perth by air and car.
Their motorcycles, trucked across the Nullarbor in the past two days, were
inspected by police concerned about trouble from one of the nation's most
notorious gangs.
Members of the Jokers are the prime suspects in the car-bomb murders in
September of former senior detective Don Hancock and his friend Lou Lewis.
Hancock and Lewis were killed a year after gang member Billy Grierson was
shot dead by a sniper bullet at Ora Banda in the Goldfields after being
kicked out of a pub owned by Hancock. It is thought that Ora Banda may be a
destination for today's run, which will be followed by a large police and
media contingent.
The Jokers who flew to Western Australia at the weekend were questioned and
photographed at Perth airport by police.
Gang members began pouring into Perth on Friday night and continued to
arrive yesterday while police kept a watchful eye at Perth's domestic
airport and at the gang's Maddington headquarters.
Police sergeant Graham Clifford said yesterday as many police as needed
would take part in the operation.
"We conduct randon breath-testing and vehicle checks on the general
population and these people are no different - except that their his tory
is linked to criminal activity," he said.
The gang will also be followed by a civil libertarian and an independent
observer - Professor Arthur Veno from Monash University - who will document
their ride.
Sydney Vietnam veteran Ray Jennings was also planning to join the group to
act as its public relations spokesman but a police source said the gang had
since discharged him of the role.
Police relations with the bikie gang have deteriorated since the double
murder, which has resulted in multiple searches of gang hang-outs but no
arrests
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