Sunday 3 July 2022 05:30 PM Sydney gang war: Why bikie underworld has moved to Rhodes and Wentworth Point ... trends now

Sunday 3 July 2022 05:30 PM Sydney gang war: Why bikie underworld has moved to Rhodes and Wentworth Point ... trends now
Sunday 3 July 2022 05:30 PM Sydney gang war: Why bikie underworld has moved to Rhodes and Wentworth Point ... trends now

Sunday 3 July 2022 05:30 PM Sydney gang war: Why bikie underworld has moved to Rhodes and Wentworth Point ... trends now

Sydney crime figures are fleeing the bullet-ridden streets of the city's west for life in leafy harbourside suburbs, but moving sometimes makes them more of a target.

Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu was gunned down on Monday when a killer lying in wait opened fire in the car park of his waterside apartment in upmarket Rhodes.

The 40-year-old - who was cleared of murdering former Comanchero president Mick Hawi in a hit outside a Rockdale gym in 2018 - died 12 hours later.

Jade Nazlioglu, his wife of just four months, was seen sobbing and wailing in the foyer of their slick apartment block as emergency services fought to save his life.

Yusuf Nazlioglu, 40, was gunned down in his Rhodes apartment complex on Monday in front of his wife of four months, Jade (pictured together)

Yusuf Nazlioglu, 40, was gunned down in his Rhodes apartment complex on Monday in front of his wife of four months, Jade (pictured together)

Bandidos’ former national sergeant-at-arms John Fahey was also seized by cops in a dawn raid on his plush unit in Wentworth Point

Bandidos' former national sergeant-at-arms John Fahey was also seized by cops in a dawn raid on his plush unit in Wentworth Point 

But he's just the latest underworld identity to try to hide out in so-called safe houses in anonymous new-build suburbia.

Many have now abandoned the sleazy life of bikie gang clubhouses in the city's south-west which were easy targets for both underworld rivals and the police.

Now they hope to blend in among the bland life of upmarket family-friendly neighbourhoods - while still staying close to their powerbase in the city's west.

But a move to a new world of Ikea furniture stores and Oliver Brown cafes rarely disguises their gritty background in violent crime. 

And instead, Sydney's designer-clad and heavily-tattooed gangsters and bikies can often stand out even more.

Maroubra Comanchero gang member John Devine, once a police person of interest in the killing of fellow bikie Faalau Pisu, 23, from the rival Milperra chapter, was an easy target in the inner-west.

A police manhunt for Ricky Barbaro led to tense stand-off after his girlfriend Ellie Price was found dead at her south Melbourne townhouse

A police manhunt for Ricky Barbaro led to tense stand-off after his girlfriend Ellie Price was found dead at her south Melbourne townhouse

While heading to work in Rhodes, Devine - cousin of Comanchero supremo Mark Buddle - was picked out by the hitmen

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