THE television series about Sydney's bikie war in the early 1980s is full of errors and lazy stereotypes, according to a former senior gang enforcer who lived through the Milperra massacre. Former Comanchero then Bandido Caesar Campbell said Brothers in Arms was a joke.
''It's bullshit, too many mistakes,'' he said.
Six motorcycle gang members and a 14-year-old female bystander were killed as tensions between the Comanchero and the Bandidos exploded on September 2, 1984.
Campbell, 66, said a litany of errors, big and small, including incorrect chronology of events, characterisation and motives upset him. The show had him riding a ''bloody sprung bike when I had a rigid'', he said.
Campbell was jailed for seven years after the bloody shoot-out at Milperra's Viking Tavern in which two of his brothers were killed. He survived being shot several times. He also complained the actor playing him was a foot too short.
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