Milperra: The Road to Justice

by Ron Stephenson

New Holland Publishers, 2004, First edition
Black and white photographic plates
ISBN 1741101719
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, no inscriptions, uncreased spine (see photographs) 

“On 2 September 1984, Father’s Day, the Comanchero and the Bandidos bikie gangs waged war against each other at a bike swap meet in the Sydney suburb of Milperra.  Seven people, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed in the car park of the Viking Tavern.  The members of the rival gangs arrived at the swap meet prepared for the battle, with firearms and baseball bats strapped to their bikes.  They lined up at opposite ends of the car park crowded with 500 people, and the bloodshed began when Comanchero president, Jock Ross raised a machete and shouted ‘Kill ‘em all!’.  Police officers rushed to the scene to bring the war under control, seizing weapons before ambulances could move in to treat the injured where they lay.  Preliminary investigations into the massacre revealed that the Comanchero were angered by the defection of their members to the Bandidos, with the hostility escalating to war.
Three weeks later, NSW Police mounted the highly organised but perilous Operation Hard Walk to simultaneously arrest 43 bikies at their homes and charge them with murder.  The resulting trial at Penrith Courthouse was the largest joint trail in NSW judicial history.”