Australia, Rebels biker court case begins

OFF THE WIRE

TINA LIPTAI for
THE STANDARD
A WEEK-LONG magistrates court sitting began yesterday to hear charges relating to three matters allegedly involving Warrnambool Rebels Motorcycle Club chief Terry Hannah.
Mr Hannah, 42, now of Geelong, has pleaded not guilty to almost 40 charges relating to three different police briefs, involving three separate victims.
The charges include recklessly causing injury, making threats to kill, breaching intervention orders, reckless conduct endangering life and unlawful assaults.
Yesterday, first of the three cases began being heard in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court.
Police claim the alleged victim has been the target of a grudge held by Mr Hannah since 2003 when he was ejected from a Warrnambool Hotel in February of that year for being drunk.
The alleged victim yesterday gave evidence about a number of intervention orders taken out against Mr Hannah.
He told the court Mr Hannah had made a number of threats to harm him which left him feeling frightened.
He also told the court projectiles had been fired through the front window of his home, where he lived with his wife and young daughter, on five separate occasions which led him to eventually replace the glass in the window with a type of plastic sheeting because he feared his daughter might be injured