Before he became Australia’s most recognisable bikie, Dayne Brajkovich was a fresh-faced teenager without a tattoo in sight.
Grinning at the camera aged just 18, the future Hell’s Angels sergeant-at-arms looked like a high school crush you could bring home to your parents.
Never-seen-before photos obtained by Daily Mail Australia show his transformation over two decades into a fearsome enforcer.
Brajkovich now regularly shows up to court with ink covering every inch of his body, including a swastika, and bikie slogans the government went out of its way to ban.
Before he became Australia’s most recognisable bikie, Dayne Brajkovich was a fresh-faced teenager without a tattoo in sight
Brajkovich now regularly shows up to court with ink covering every inch of his body, including a swastika, and bikie slogans the government went out of its way to ban
His noticeable floral tattoos of wide-open red flowers with a yellow centre were among the first added across his body and extending down to his legs.
An early photo of the design shows them dotted across his arms and torso, along with Chinese characters and two duelling dragons.
Gang affiliations were completely absent and although he had already lost all his hair the ink did not yet extend to his face or head.
Tattoos later began to blend into the facial hair he wore for a brief period in the next photo, snaking up his cheeks and on to his scalp.
Another photo from around the same few years shows exactly how far the now densely packed tattoos extend across his body.
Sitting stark naked in the cab of a crane on a worksite, the body art even extends towards his groin with intricate designs heavy on black ink.
An early photo of his recogniseable floral design shows the flowers dotted across his arms and torso, along with Chinese characters and two dueling dragons
Tattoos later began to blend into the facial hair he wore for a brief period in the next photo, snaking up his cheeks and on to his scalp
A more recent photo shows the inks start to spread across his head with the first forehead tattoo, a Jesus image.
Crammed on to his left cheek was a pistol, knuckledusters, and the Roman numerals of his birth year, 1979, and a Chinese dragon on his neck.
Two of the photos also showed how his beloved pets grew from puppies into the loyal guard dogs that protect his $1.5 million fortress home in Perth.
Brajkovich became so notorious for his tattoos that he was the poster boy for the Western Australian Government’s bikie crackdown.
Premier Mark McGowan, his ministers, and senior cops singled him out when promoting controversial laws banning the public display of bikie symbols.
He had ‘Hell’s Angels’ inked on his forehead and ‘1%er’ on his neck – a common bikie identification representing the percentage of motorbike owners who are not law-abiding.
Others included ‘infamous gang enforcer’ on the right side of his head to make fun of media reports about him, and ‘One %’ above his right eye.
Sitting stark naked in the cab of a crane on a worksite, the body art even extends towards his groin with intricate designs heavy on black ink
A more recent photo shows the inks start to extend across his head with the first forehead tattoo, a Jesus image, along with a pistol, knuckledusters, and the Roman numerals of his birth year, 1979, and a Chinese dragon on his neck
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch suggested at the time that bikies should cover up their tattoos or leave the state.
‘I would start with things like Band-Aids or makeup certainly or have it removed or alternatively, people can choose the option not to live in Western Australia if this law passes,’ he said as the law was being debated.
After he was kicked out of the Hell’s Angels in 2021 he threw out all the club’s clothes he had when none of his former brothers showed up to collect them.
His wife Jacinta Hill told a court in January she applied makeup to his tattoos every day before he went to work.
He later tattooed over the Hell’s Angels forehead ink with black bars and filled in the diamond the 1%er mark was surrounded by.
However, he added a new one on his head reading ‘f**k the police’ and a swastika on his chin – which unlike bikie symbols is not illegal in WA.
Brajkovich appears to take up so much space in the heads of WA authorities that his new ink has them talking about banning Nazi symbols, just as Victoria just did, and citing him as a reason why.
Most recently he got a huge ‘King of Kings’ tattoo, complete with a spade, on a black background across his right cheek, but the enforcer one was still there.
Brajkovich frequently shows up to court wearing the most informal clothes possibly to thumb his nose at authorities, and always has a chunky $200,000 gold chain around his neck.
Two of the photos also show how his beloved dogs have grown from puppies
They are now loyal guard dogs that protect his $1.5 million fortress home in Perth. In this photo only his nose is lacking in tattoos and the seat is stolen from a train
Most recently, he wore a T-shirt with three gold bars and the text ‘you keep your silver’, along with a hat covering up his Hell’s Angels tattoo.
This was in reference to him walking into the Perth Mint’s shop and buying 300g of gold, worth about $27,000, on June 13 last year.
He also wore gold rings with large letters on them.
Brajkovich was kicked out of Hell’s Angels early last year after a brawl with other senior members sparked by his fury that members were partying with those of rival clubs.
The ex-bikie has since then focused on his growing property portfolio, with two investment homes in addition to his own.
On his left ear is a tattoo of ‘6104’, the postcode for Belmont and surrounds in southeast Perth, where he grew up and all his properties are located.
Former Hell’s Angels sergeant-at-arms Dayne Brajkovich is the most recogniseable bikie in Australia with his tattoos that cover his entire body
Brajkovich first shot to notoriety for beating up Rebels boss Nick Martin (left) at a pub in November 2020 – two weeks before he was shot dead by an assassin
Brajkovich first shot to notoriety for beating up Rebels boss Nick Martin at a pub in November 2020.
A source told Daily Mail Australia the shocking brawl in front of drinkers at The Sandbar on Scarborough Beach was part of a dispute over tattoo parlour territory.
Two weeks later, Martin was shot dead by a highly paid assassin from about 300m away while watching from the stands of a drag racing event south of Perth.
Then in March 2021, Rebels bikie Jason Kemp, a former friend of Brajkovich sprayed five or six bullets into his car outside his house in Ascot.
The Holden Commodore was shot up while his wife and seven-year-old son were inside, and was in retaliation for the Martin bashing.
Brajkovich returns to court next month facing numerous charges over an alleged violent rampage against tenants in one of his properties.
CCTV caught the moment infamous Aussie bikie Dayne Brajkovich (pictured) queued up at a gift shop to buy $27,000 worth of gold – without a single check on where his money came from
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