Comanchero bikie chief Allan Meehan has delivered a sinister warning to his rivals in a bitter interstate power struggle to keep control from previous boss Mick Murray.
Melbourne-based Murray is said to be bidding to return as the gang’s Australian overlord just four months after he stood down while awaiting murder charges.
But Meehan – known as the Bathrobe Bikie after appearing in a series of pictures of him in dressing gowns – is determined to stay in the job, and has now signalled he will not be going lightly.
Overnight on Tuesday he posted a clip on his Instagram feed of Al Pacino in the ultra-violent 1983 drug war movie Scarface.
In the clip, Pacino’s character Tony Montana has just escaped being dismembered by a chainsaw-wielding rival drug gang, before killing them and stealing their cocaine.
The final moments of the clip – with Montana on the phone to the shocked boss of the rival gang – became a movie classic and a favourite among gangsters.
‘I got the yayo [cocaine],’ he tells the rival. ‘F*** you.’
Now police sources fear an internal war is brewing between the Comanchero chiefs as Murray plots his return.
Meehan has been under growing pressure from inside and outside the gang since taking the reins of the country’s most powerful bikie gang.
Comanchero bikie chief Allan Meehan (right) has delivered a sinister warning to his rivals in a bitter interstate power struggle to keep control from previous boss Mick Murray (left)
Allan Meehan posted a clip on his Instagram feed of Al Pacino in the ultra-violent 80s drug war movie Scarface
He has had his bank accounts frozen by police as they probe the sources of his income, while other bikies are concerned by Meehan’s fascination with social media.
He has been a regular on Instagram since taking charge of the gang, posting pics of himself and his wife in their nightwear, plus pics of gang meet-ups and a video of a flashy custom gold Harley Davidson motorbike in Comanchero colours.
His profile biography on his Instagram account proudly proclaims ‘Always Comanchero’ and warns: ‘TRUST NO1’, with the emoji of a knife.
It also includes a reference to a biblical passage from the Gospel of Luke where Christ is on the cross, surrounded by criminals – but tells them: ‘You will be with me in paradise.’
Meehan has become infamous as the bathrobe bikie after posting this picture of himself in a Versace dressing gown in Comanchero colours while his wife wore matching coloured Winnie the Pooh nightwear from Peter Alexander
Meehan’s snap on Instagram came after he was pictured in a scruffy grey dressing gown when police served him with a notice to take out a serious crime prevention order against him
Meehan also posted snaps of himself with the gang’s sergeant-at-arms Tarek Zahed just weeks after he survived being shot 10 times in an attempted execution at a Sydney gym in May.
The photographs, from an apparent gangland lunch in Melbourne, gave an insight into the current gang hierarchy and their associates, including Mohamad Alameddine.
Allan Meehan posted snaps of himself with the gang’s sergeant-at-arms Tarek Zahed just weeks after he survived being shot 10 times in an attempted execution at a Sydney gym in May
Photographs from an apparent gangland lunch in Melbourne gave an insight into the current gang hierarchy and their associates, including Mohamad Alameddine (second from right)
Meehan’s pictures and clips are rarely left online for longer than 24 hours before being deleted – but they never go unnoticed by gang members and their enemies.
It’s said to have raised tensions among older members of the gang who are wary of Meehan’s desire to be so high profile, sparking support for Murray’s return.
There are also said to be concerns about Meehan’s past as a former Rebels gang member who switched allegiances and brought over his close mate Jesse Vella.
The 35-year-old grew up in public housing at Liverpool in Sydney’s south-west and joined the Rebels when he was just 18, rising to president of that club’s Cronulla chapter.
There are also said to be concerns about Meehan’s past as a former Rebels gang member who switched allegiances and brought over his close mate Jesse Vella (pictured with Meehan)
Melbourne-based Mick Murray is said to bidding to return as the gang’s Australian overlord just four months after he stood down while awaiting murder charges
He was reportedly lured to patch over to the Comanchero by one-time national president Mark Buddle who is now the club’s self-declared ‘commander of the world’.
NSW-based Meehan, who has a home at Yerribool in the Southern Highlands, took charge at the end of June after a chaotic start to the year for the bikie gang.
In Melbourne, Murray is in jail charged with murder while another of the men who previously held his position was shot dead four years ago.
Ultimate Comanchero boss Mark Buddle is also in a Melbourne jail after he was extradited to Australia from Turkey on drug smuggling charges.
Ultimate Comanchero boss Mark Buddle (pictured with ex-wife Mel Ter Wisscha) is in a Melbourne jail after he was extradited to Australia from Turkey on drug smuggling charges
Police sources say Mark Buddle (pictured during his extradition from Turkey) is effectively running the gang from behind bars
However police sources say Buddle is effectively running the gang from behind bars.
‘Buddle still calls the shots,’ one source told the Daily Telegraph.
‘It will be his decision at the end of the day and some in Victoria believe Mick [Murray] should never have been flicked.
‘But I think most don’t want to have their president behind bars, so Meehan is their choice.’
Meehan (right) was reportedly lured to patch over to the Comanchero by one-time national president Mark Buddle (left) who is now the club’s self-declared ‘commander of the world’
Another added: ‘There is always a target on the back of the boss of the Commos, not only from the cops.
‘It almost comes with the job.’
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