NSW:Bikie breaks with club's code

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2010
NSW:Bikie breaks with club's code

SYDNEY, Aug 18 AAP - An aspiring Comanchero bikie has broken with the club's code of
silence to give evidence about its involvement in a fatal airport brawl.

The man, known only as AL, took to the stand at Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday
during the committal hearing of 10 men charged with murder and three others charged with
riot and affray.

A member of the Hell's Angels gang, Anthony Zervas, 29, died on March 22, 2009, after
a brawl sparked by a chance meeting between rival clubs on a Qantas flight from Melbourne
to Sydney.

AL - whose name has been suppressed and who was a Comanchero nominee at the time -
had been called to the airport to "pick up the boys", including president Mick Hawi.

At the airport arrival gate, AL said members of both clubs had clashed after disembarking
from the plane.

"The man Derek ... he walked up and shouldered Mick on the right-hand side," said AL.

"Then Mick sort of gave him a punch ... on the left-hand side of his face [and] Mick
said 'you're a pussy'."

AL said the affray went on for five to 10 minutes.

"I got punched in the mouth, I didn't see who punched me," he said.

"My mouth, there was a big hole inside my lip.

"I threw a punch, I hit Derek. I hit Derek on the left side of his face. Derek went
down... he fell down and then everyone was fighting."

A short time later the fight broke up before members of both clubs moved towards the
departure gates, where Mr Zervas was fatally bashed.

The court heard that during his time as a nominee, AL visited the Comanchero clubhouse
at Milperra in south-west Sydney.

"The rules I learned ... make sure you shut your mouth, don't talk to the police if
something happens to you and ... whatever happens inside that clubhouse doesn't go outside,"

he said.

AL is one of two former Comancheros who will give evidence at the committal hearing.

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