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GANGS IN THE MIST
“Popular occupations of Australian bikies tend to be in the areas of bike maintenance and tattoo industries. In recent years, many bikies have also become involved in hydroponic businesses. While perfectly legitimate, these businesses are blatantly aimed at those wanting to grow dope indoors.” (The Brotherhoods. Arthur Veno and Ed Gannon: 2002. Griffith Press)
“My motives were sincere. It must be remembered that in those days, there wasn't any organized hydroponic cannabis market or organized crime groups. Most cannabis was either imported from New Guinea or grown in the bush. One only needs to review the 'Australian Illicit Drug Report' published since 1991 to chart the development of the hydroponic cannabis market in Australia. It also records the legislation in place for each state, so these reports give a very good annual picture of the impacts stemming from various initiatives including the South Australian experiment to decriminalize cannabis use…. We essentially popularized hydroponics by taking it out of the allys and putting it on the main street. I'm not sure Ray Rogers, Barry Silver or Grant Creevy would like this description, but that was my thinking at that time. I genuinely believed we could develop a hydroponic market in a high density urban area dominated by flats and tight living arrangements, where people were becoming more conscious about healthy food…In the early days, many of our customers were genuine home gardeners…However, it didn't take long before cannabis growers and organized crime moved in. I sold my last interest in retail hydroponic stores in 1994 and was glad to get out of the retail hydroponic market…. Each state developed differently, with some commonalities. Organised bikie gangs dominate the southern states of Vic, SA and WA, but not in NSW and Qld, which is now dominated by Vietnamese operators. With few exceptions, the cleanskins have since left the industry.” (Steven Carruthers - first retail operator in Australia, author and publisher of Practical Hydroponics and Green Houses magazine. Carruthers sold up his last retail interest after a car was driven into his storefront window - allegedly by another industry member who Carruthers had refused to purchase goods from.
Gangs in the mist TERRENCE RAYMOND TOGNOLINI - NEFARIOUS NUTRIENTS (Australia) Victorian police recently unearthed a conspiracy that involved HA MC members who intended to dominate hydroponic sales in three Australian States. The key figure in this conspiracy was the one time Victorian president of the Nomads/HA MC. Press surrounding him…… Stories extracted from The Age and written by John Silvester, co-author of the Underbelly series. www.theage.com.au
CASE ONE But someone was determined. Five days later, at 11.45pm, the alarm went off again. This time the arsonists had left nothing to chance, ramming the front door before throwing a bomb into the building. Police found that the owners of the building had earlier been the victims of an extortion plot. CASE TWO Police hoped the victim's statement could be a breakthrough in the long-running investigation into Tognolini, but the victim later withdrew his complaint — apparently without offering a reason. Any bad blood appeared to be settled when the owner started to use the Nefarious products. But the relationship again turned cold. On January 28, 1997, petrol was used to destroy two sheds at the factory, in Old Dandenong Road, Heatherton. CASE THREE On July 23, 1997, there was a second fire. A hole was smashed through the front plate-glass window, probably with an axe. Petrol was poured through the hole and then lit. It was only by chance that the whole building didn't burn down — a large plastic display tub near the door melted, causing water to spill and extinguish the fire. Damage was again about $5000. Police say Tognolini demanded the recipe for the company's popular nutrient and insisted the company stock Nefarious products. Police were told a staff member was also assaulted as part of the intimidation. CASE FOUR
Source: Author: John Silvester, The Age http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/terrence.tognolini.html John Silvester is a Co-Author of the 'Underbelly' true crime series. The Vicki Jacobs character features in this show - she was shot in bed while asleep next to her child (to their credit they did not shoot the sleeping child). Terrence Tognolini Police say Tognolini, a senior member of the Nomad's Hell's Angels chapter, has been linked to three murders and is connected to Melbourne's underworld. Tognolini has been arrested over cultivating drugs, firearms offences, blackmail and perverting the course of justice. After years of investigation by state and federal authorities over a string of offences — including the three murders and a series of arsons — he remains a free man. During this violent decade, Tognolini has remained a key figure for the Nomads — the national enforcers of the Hells Angels. The Nomads, formed in Melbourne in August 1980, is reputed to be among the most violent of all outlaw motorcycle gangs. All groups are assigned areas of "turf" to control. But the Nomads can go anywhere. Tognolini operates a wholesale hydroponic supply business called Nefarious in Thomastown. It is just two doors from the Nomads' headquarters. When approached by The Sunday Age, Tognoloni said his company "had nothing to do with the club. It's my own business." He declined a request to be interviewed, saying: "I wouldn't be able to trust a word you wrote … We don't give comments to anybody, you know that. You have a lovely day." For years there have been a series of unexplained fires connected to the hydroponics industry in Melbourne. Each fire at first appeared to be an isolated crime but further investigations showed the victims had all been competitors of the bikie with the green thumb and the mean streak. Police believe Terrence Tognolini and associates have used intimidation and violence as part of a plan to develop a major stake in the hydroponic industry. On November 12, 1994, an audible alarm was activated in a hydroponics business in Murphy Street, Richmond. It was obvious the alarm frightened off a would-be arsonist, because when police arrived they found an aluminium ladder at the rear of the building and containers of petrol on the roof. The corrugated iron roof had been lifted and petrol poured in through the gap. As at any crime scene, fingerprints were taken. Those discovered on the ladder were found to be a match for Terrence Tognolini. But someone was determined. Five days later, at 11.45pm, the alarm went off again. This time the arsonists had left nothing to chance, ramming the front door before throwing a bomb into the building. Police found that the owners of the building had earlier been the victims of an extortion plot. In 1995 there was a simmering feud between the Nomads and the Bandidos. On May 13, 1995 members of the Nomads bashed Bandido members and stole their colours. On August 20, 1995, uniformed police attempted to intercept six Hells Angels on motorbikes in Clarendon Street, South Melbourne. All scattered and Tognolini crashed in nearby City Road. He was found to be in possession of a semi-automatic pistol. In August 1995 police arrested Tognolini and another Nomad enforcer over possession of pistols. In November 1995 a Bandido bikie was struck and deliberately run off the road while riding his motorbike along Whitelaw Avenue, Ballarat, after leaving the gang's nearby clubhouse. The car that hit him drove off but a number plate was found at the scene. Police discovered a female associate of Tognolini rented the car in Nunawading. The Mitsubishi sedan was later found burnt out in a paddock off the Calder Highway near Diggers Rest. A witness said the driver looked remarkably similar to Terrence Raymond Tognolini. On December 22, 1995, a minor altercation between two drivers in Glenbarry Road, Campbellfield, soon escalated to blows. One of the drivers was Tognolini. The second was Mustafa Yildirim. Yildirim says he committed the sin of tooting his horn when Tognolini passed him at more than 120 km/h. Police say the Nomad followed Yildirim to his work, parked and asked him: "Have you got a problem?" According to Yildirim, he said "no" — which was apparently the wrong answer as he was immediately punched in the face. The two men fought until they were separated. Then Tognolini is alleged to have walked back to his car, grabbed a handgun and said: "I'm going to kill you now." A police report states: "He then fired a number of shots towards Yildirim, missing him on each occasion." Police raided Tognolini's home and found five cannabis plants in the backyard. He was charged with unlawful assault, assault with a weapon, making threats to kill, possessing cannabis and cultivating a narcotic plant. He was bailed to appear at the Broadmeadows Magistrates Court on March 18, 1997. In what was to become a pattern, the case against Tognolini collapsed when the star witness refused to testify after being repeatedly harassed. A few months later he was at a friend's car repair works in Campbellfield when a man he knew came up and started talking. The acquaintance was a professional kick-boxer, so Yildirim knew it was wise to listen. The fighter told him that he knew of the road rage incident, then warned him "not to mess around with these people … these people will hurt you". He then suggested it would be in everyone's interest that the court case end "in a good way". The Turkish kick-boxer said it was only because they shared an ethnic background that it hadn't been handled "in a different way". The frightened Yildirim moved house, quit his job and began working at a new smash repair shop. But four months later the persistent kick-boxer found him again. He was told if he gave evidence against Tognolini he should "go to the Fawkner Cemetery and reserve a grave for himself". He was asked for the phone numbers of two other prosecution witnesses and offered $2000 if he pulled out of the court case. He again moved house and quit his job. Tognolini was charged with blackmail and attempting to pervert the course of justice, but eventually the Director of Public Prosecutions dropped all charges when the terrified victim refused to give evidence. According to police Yildirim has since fled the country. A Heatherton company that provided a popular fertiliser for hydroponic growers found its product was perhaps too popular. Police say that in late 1996, Tognolini approached the owner of the company and demanded his nutrient recipe. He also wanted the owner to stock Nefarious products. When the owner refused, Tognolini made direct threats. Police hoped the victim's statement could be a breakthrough in the long-running investigation into Tognolini, but the victim later withdrew his complaint — apparently without offering a reason. Any bad blood appeared to be settled when the owner started to use the Nefarious products. But the relationship again turned cold. On January 28, 1997, petrol was used to destroy two sheds at the factory, in Old Dandenong Road, Heatherton. A Thomastown hydroponics business became the target of a repeat arsonist. On June 26, 1997, petrol was poured through the gaps beneath the door and through a window near the office area. The small fire caused damage estimated at $5000. On July 23, 1997, there was a second fire. A hole was smashed through the front plate-glass window, probably with an axe. Petrol was poured through the hole and then lit. It was only by chance that the whole building didn't burn down — a large plastic display tub near the door melted, causing water to spill and extinguish the fire. Damage was again about $5000. Police say Tognolini demanded the recipe for the company's popular nutrient and insisted the company stock Nefarious products. Police were told a staff member was also assaulted as part of the intimidation. In 1997, police say Tognolini approached a Yarraville hydroponics firm and demanded they stock his products. At first the owner agreed but he allegedly complained to Tognolini regarding the quality. When the owner made a complaint to police, Tognolini was charged and was committed for trial on October 1, 1997. Four days later, there was a fire at the factory in Hyde Street, Yarraville. The cause of the fire appeared to be a volatile cocktail of turpentine and petrol poured through a hole in the steel roof. The estimated damage was $80,000. Five weeks later, at 2.52am on November 15, police were called to two fires at factories used by the company in Hyde Street. The business was destroyed and so was the case against Tognolini. Yet again, an alleged victim of the bikie refused to give evidence. On January 16, 1998, a Greensborough hydroponics firm was set on fire. The unknown arsonists poured petrol under the front door and set it alight. According to confidential police documents, Tognolini had earlier "approached the owners demanding they stock his products and made threats of retribution if these demands were not met". Many have learned to fear Terrence Tognolini — but none more than Vicki Jacobs. A false name and a new life would not be enough to save her after she gave evidence against her former husband over a Hells Angels sanctioned double murder. In 1992 she married former stamp collector turned criminal journeyman Gerald Preston. They separated two years later after the birth of their only child, a son. They remained friends of sorts and when they saw each other, Preston was relaxed enough to talk frankly. That was his mistake. And when he implicated himself in the murder of two men in Adelaide, she eventually agreed to give evidence against him. That was hers. Police say Vicki Jacobs was killed, not because she turned bad, but because she tried to reform. Gerald David Preston was sentenced to 32 years after he was found guilty of killing Tim Richards and Les Knowles in an Adelaide auto repair shop on August 15, 1996. He used a rare wartime German Luger pistol, stolen in Victoria years earlier. The South Australian Supreme Court was told in 1998 that a Melbourne Hells Angels member paid Preston $10,000 to kill the men. The High Court later reported: "The prosecution case was that the killings were carried out at the request of one Tognolini." The prosecution claimed Preston bought the 9mm Luger for $1500 from Tognolini, who authorised the double murder contract on behalf of the Angels. Detectives say the Adelaide killings were ordered for the usual bikie reasons — money, drugs and power. Knowles was a successful drug dealer with a criminal history of violence and dishonesty who made the fatal mistake of trying to expand into the Hells Angels' patch. Preston was identified within days as a likely suspect. Nearly a month after the double murder, police tracked him arriving at Tognolini's Melbourne house, where he stayed for just under an hour. He then left and drove back to South Australia. Vicki Jacobs was one of more than 100 prosecution witnesses, but one of the most important. She gave unwavering evidence over four gruelling days. She said Preston told her about the murders and she was also able to implicate the Hells Angels in the plot. Tognolini travelled to Adelaide for the trial but he was there not just to provide "moral support" for his mate. Police investigated him for attempting to intimidate witnesses in the murder prosecution. But, not for the first time, the case against him collapsed when witnesses refused to testify about the approaches. On a Saturday morning, July 12, 1999, a killer who'd almost certainly watched her for days slipped into her unit in Wood Street through the laundry door and shot her in six times in the head and body as she slept on a fold-down settee with her son. No one heard the shots, leading police to believe the gun was fitted with a silencer or that the bedding muffled them. Certainly police know that Preston did not shoot Vicki Jacobs and they also know the gunman was not Tognolini — who was overseas at a Hells Angels convention. After his conviction it is unlikely Preston would have had the power or the network to order the murder of his former wife from within a high-security cell in Adelaide's Yatala jail. But the bikie world is filled with men with warped senses of loyalty and violent dispositions. Jacobs' best friend, Colleen Hunter, told a coroner's inquest the former witness believed she was likely to be murdered and remained terrified of Tognolini. Coroner Phillip Byrne was told that police suspected she was killed on the orders of the Hells Angels as a payment for Preston remaining silent over the gang's involvement in the Adelaide double murder. Byrne said: "At the subsequent trial, the Crown alleged Gerald Preston shot the two men with a 9mm Luger pistol purchased earlier from Terrence Tognolini. It was further alleged that Preston and Kevin Gillard (whose conviction was later quashed) were in effect employed and paid by Terrence Tognolini on behalf of the Hells Angels motorcycle club to kill Knowles because of his involvement in the drug trade. Michael "Bags" Lane, a Hell's Angels bikie was a "person of interest" in the murder. Lane, 47, died in Christmas Hills, northeast of Melbourne, after being hit by a branch while cutting a tree on October 4, 2006. Police said Mr Lane was never eliminated from the investigation of the death of Jacobs. Mr Lane was questioned by homicide squad investigators. Police did not believe he was the gunman and suspect a crime figure from interstate pulled the trigger. Det. Sen-Sgt Ron Iddles of the homicide squad said he was satisfied Mr Lane could have helped solve the murder. Mr Lane belonged to the Hell's Angels' East County chapter, whose members were the subject of a major police raid two years ago in which drugs and chemical precursors for the manufacture of amphetamines were found. It would not be the only time Tognolini would be involved in a coroner's inquest. After the death of a child when a heart operation went wrong due to medical misjudgement in 2000, a doctor from the Royal Children's Hospital gave evidence that a grief-stricken Tognolini said to him: "I've been involved in various murders doctor, and you shouldn't think you are immune." On August 23, 2002, a Westmeadows hydroponics firm suffered damage when an offender broke two windows and placed a running fire hose into the factory. According to police, the "owner of the business refused to speak with police about possible motive". Some people can be targeted because they owe money. Others because they are owed money. And that is why, police believe, a Christmas decorations wholesale business in Niddrie was set on fire about 11pm on November 18, 2002 — right at the start of the busiest period of the year. Police later found that a hole was drilled through the front roller door, a length of plastic tubing pushed through the hole and a kerosene-petrol mix poured into the building that was then ignited. Police say a relative of Tognolini ran a Christmas decoration business and was in debt to the Niddrie firm. In a confidential report, police claim: "It has been said that Terrence Tognolini approached the owner and made demands that the debt against his (relative) be written off and he threatened retribution if this did not occur." It was not the only suspicious fire in the business. In December 2004, the Christmas Cave in Wellington Street, Collingwood, was also the subject of a fire. Police say Tognolini's next target was a rival in West Footscray. He demanded the owner stock his Nefarious products but the businessman at first refused. On July 15, 2002, the shop was set on fire after a petrol-like substance was poured through the roof at the Wightman Street shop. "Prior to the fire, Tognolini demanded (the victim) stock his Nefarious supplies. When this didn't occur, Tognolini threatened assaults and arson." But the optimistic man believed if he remained silent and laid low he could have a second chance. He re-established his business in Geelong Road, West Footscray, the following year and police say he took the added insurance of phoning Tognolini with an order for Nefarious products. But police say that on November 8, 2002, Tognolini walked into the shop, punched the owner three times in the face and sprayed him with mace. He then said he would kill the man if he was not paid $20,000 by Boxing Day 2003. The terrified rival used a trusted employee to meet Tognolini and on December 23 the standover man was paid $10,000, followed by another $10,000 by Easter the following year. The employee who brokered the deal was a convicted murderer and had done jail time with Tognolini. Police believe he was a plant inside the rival's business. On October 4, 2006, a Hells Angel who was a "person of interest" in the murder of Vicki Jacobs was killed in a freak gardening accident. Michael "Bags" Lane, 47, died in Christmas Hills, northeast of Melbourne, after being hit by a branch while cutting a tree. Police said Mr Lane was never eliminated from the investigation of the death of Jacobs. Mr Lane was questioned by homicide squad investigators. Police did not believe he was the gunman and suspect a crime figure from interstate pulled the trigger. Det. Sen-Sgt Ron Iddles of the homicide squad said he was satisfied Mr Lane could have helped solve the murder. Mr Lane belonged to the Hell's Angels' East County chapter. February 26, 2007, Age reporter John Silvester reported that Tognolini, had been expelled from the Hells Angels and could no longer rely on the protection of the international gang. Tognolini's banishment was said to have come about after a vicious falling-out inside the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Gang. Police and bikie sources told The Age Tognolini was expelled from the gang "about two weeks ago" — eroding his power base and effectively cutting him loose. In a traditional bikie farewell gesture he was badly beaten by up to 10 gang members. His bikie colours and memorabilia have also been confiscated. On June 15, 2007, police arrested Tognolini. He was dramatically nabbed at Melbourne Airport about 9.40pm after stepping off a Qantas flight from London via Hong Kong. Tognolini, 42, of Coburg North, went quietly with police when confronted at the airport by detectives attached to Taskforce 400. He was taken to the St Kilda Road police headquarters and interviewed before being charged with a string of offences including extortion, blackmail and making threats to kill. Tognolini appeared before a bail justice in an out-of-sessions hearing early the following morning and was remanded in custody to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday. Detective acting Senior Sergeant Adrian Richards said he was arrested as part of Operation Mensa, which has been ongoing for four years. "The investigation is still ongoing and the allegations revolve around incidents involving the hydroponics industry," Senior Sergeant Richards said. "There are a lot of avenues still to pursue in this investigation." The Sunday Age believed Tognolini would face further charges the following week. Operation Mensa police also seized a large amount of drugs and documents in raids across Melbourne. On June 18, 2007, Tognolini faced Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 24 charges. The charges allege he threatened to burn down his rival's businesses if they did not stop competing with him and give him confidential business and product information. He did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody to reappear at a committal mention on October 28. Tognolini then faced more interrogation from police after magistrate Paul Smith released him into their custody for questioning over alleged sex offences. His lawyer Bob Galbally expressed his "annoyance and outrage" at the Sunday Age article in particular after weekend news stories told of his client's "link to three murders" for which he was never charged.
Then this – from feared Hells Angel/Nomads enforcer to pedophile/child rapist
Hells Angel faces child sex charges Reko Rennie | October 8, 2007 - 2:12PM
A former Hells Angels member has faced court accused of more than 50 child sex assaults and supplying drugs to minors. Terrence Tognolini, 42, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court today on charges including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault of children under the age of 16. He is also accused of trafficking and supplying amphetamines, ecstasy and cannabis to a child. The mother of one of Tognolini's alleged victims told the court of her shock when her daughter told her she had been abused. "Look, I was just so dumbstruck, it was just disbelief," the woman said. "To this day, I haven't read her statement [to police] ... "It's my job to protect her and everything's taken away." The woman later broke down in court and shouted at Tognolini's defence lawyer, Theo Kassimatis, when he cross-examined her. The hearing, before magistrate Felicity Broughton, was then briefly adjourned. Source: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/10/08/1191695798699.html And: Source: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22553463-2862,00.html October 09, 2007 12:00am A MAN sexually assaulted teenage girls after plying them with ice and other drugs during sleepovers at his house, a court heard yesterday. Terrence Raymond Tognolini, 42, is accused of offences against eight girls over a five-year period from February 2002. Mr Tognolini allegedly supplied six girls -- aged as young as 14 -- with drugs including amphetamines, ecstasy and cannabis at his Glenroy home. Mr Tognolini is also accused of sexually abusing two other girls -- one from the time she was just 11 or 12. Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard evidence from one teenage girl that she "never paid for any of the drugs" Mr Tognolini allegedly gave her during visits to his home. The teenager gave evidence that she and other girls smoked marijuana in a bong, smoked ice from a glass crack pipe and were given "white playboy" pills by Mr Tognolini. She said Mr Tognolini also smoked marijuana and snorted ice from a CD cover while the girls were there. The girl gave evidence that on one occasion Mr Tognolini's two children were at his house when she visited. "He didn't do drugs in front of them or anything," she said in a statement tendered to the court. "That night when the kids went to bed Terry brought it all out again." The girl gave evidence that Mr Tognolini was having sex with a 14-year-old. She said another girl believed she was pregnant, claiming Mr Tognolini had raped her. She gave evidence that one evening Mr Tognolini gave her and two other girls money for clothing. "(He) told us to get a dress and shoes because he was taking us out that night," she said in a statement. Mr Tognolini took the girls to Metro Night Club and to a gay/lesbian bar where they drank shots. He also took two girls to a city shop, where they got piercings to their tongue and tragus (cartilage in front of the ear). The girl gave evidence that Mr Tognolini tried to sexually assault her one night after spiking her drink. She said she did not return to his home after that. A woman whose daughter was allegedly sexually molested by Mr Tognolini when she was about 11 or 12 gave evidence she had noticed her daughter started acting differently and "going off the rails" when she was in grade 5 at primary school. The court heard she asked her daughter if Mr Tognolini had ever touched her. "(She) nodded her head yes and then started to cry straight away. "She was so distraught that she couldn't even talk," the woman said in a statement. The woman said she confronted Mr Tognolini and "he said he was sorry . . . for doing what he did". Mr Tognolini, of Coburg North, faces 47 charges including two counts of rape, five counts of committing an indecent act with a child under 16, 17 counts of supplying a drug of dependence to a child and 17 counts of trafficking a drug of dependence to a child. Mr Tognolini was remanded in custody. His preliminary hearing continues before magistrate Felicity Broughton. And finally, "A former president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has been jailed for eight and a half years for child sex and drugs offences.
Author’s note: Tognolini was viciously beaten and evicted from the Nomads/HA MC. Nefarious nutrients remain available through Australian hydroponic retail stores.
Press surrounding his eviction from the gang
“Police hope Hells Angels fall-out leads to murder arrest JOHN SILVESTER A VICIOUS falling out inside the Hells Angels Motorcycle Gang has given police new hope of a breakthrough in the murder of a woman gunned down in Bendigo nearly eight years ago. Police say long-time bikie Terrence Raymond Tognolini, the man suspected of organising the murder of Vicki Jacobs, has been expelled from the Hells Angels and can no longer rely on the protection of the international gang. Melbourne detectives have long considered Tognolini, 41, to be one of Australia's most dangerous and erratic organised crime figures. He is suspected of being involved in three murders, a series of arsons, interfering with a witness and repeated attempts to pervert the course of justice. Previous attempts to build prosecution cases against him have failed, largely because witnesses fear reprisals from the Hells Angels. But police and bikie sources have told The Age Tognolini was expelled from the gang about two weeks ago - eroding his power base and effectively cutting him loose. In a traditional bikie farewell gesture he was badly beaten by up to 10 gang members. His bikie colours and memorabilia have also been confiscated. Tognolini was a senior member of the Nomads - the national enforcing arm of the Hells Angels - and has long been considered one of the most intimidating members of the violent gang. He has regularly represented the Australian Hells Angels at international bikie conventions. The bikie-turned-businessman operates the wholesale hydroponic supply business Nefarious - just two doors from the Nomads' Thomastown headquarters. Police say Tognolini ordered the murder of Tim Richards and Les Knowles, who were gunned down in an Adelaide auto repair shop on August 15, 1996. Gerald David Preston, a friend of Tognolini, was sentenced to 32 years' jail after he was found guilty of the murders. The High Court later reported: "The prosecution case was that the killings were carried out at the request of one Tognolini." Preston's former wife, Vicki Jacobs, was a key prosecution witness in the case. She was murdered on July 12, 1999 when a killer shot her six times in the head and body as she slept on a fold-down settee with her son. Detectives believe the killer was a Hells Angels member from Darwin. Although Tognolini was overseas at the time of the murder, Coroner Phillip Byrne later found that "the fingers of suspicion point squarely at Gerald Preston, Terrence Tognolini and his associates as implicated in the death of Ms Jacobs". There is a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murder of Vicki Jacobs. Phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.”
Ane then finally Tognolini faced justice for his crimes committed against other hydroponic industry members.Hells Angels bikie to serve another 18 months in prison for decade of violenceJanuary 19, 2010, A FORMER Hells Angels bikie who carried out a decade-long campaign of arson, blackmail and terror against hydroponic businesses in Melbourne will serve just 18 months for his crimes.
During the campaign, some victims fled their homes in the middle of the night, one changed his name by deed poll and all suffered severe psychological trauma and distress.
Source: Courier Mail http://www.couriermail.com.au/hells-angels-bikie-to-serve-another-18-months-in-prison-for-decade-of-violence/story-e6frf7jo-1225821242192
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