Final moments of Bradley Lyons' life tortured by Australian Freedom Fighters ... trends now
A ruthless gang of meth-fuelled vigilantes menaced their victim with a chainsaw while trying to force a confession out of him for crimes he did not commit.
Father-of-eight Bradley 'BJ' Lyons was tortured and executed after being betrayed by his meth-addled wife Jana Hooper, who falsely accused him of sexually assaulting her daughters.
Video obtained by Daily Mail Australia shows Hooper leading her husband to his death after 'giving the nod' for thugs to enter their house in Lakes Entrance, in Victoria's east, and attack him.
The countdown to execution as Bradley Lyons was abducted, tortured and then killed
Bradley Lyons' wife Jana Hooper falsely told a meth-addicted group of so-called 'paedophile hunters' that her husband had impregnated her daughter
CCTV captured from a neighbour's property showed Mr Lyons follow his wife into their home blissfully unaware of the horrors about to befall him.
He would not be seen alive again after being stuffed into the boot of his soon-to-be killer's car and driven away.
'The cat's in the bag,' Albert Thorn told the girlfriend of his co-accused Jordan Bottom, who along with Rikki Smith was found not guilty last week of Mr Lyons' murder.
Jessica MacFarlane, the then-girlfriend of Bottom, had been living in a caravan with him on Thorn's Nyerimilang farm when he arrived with Mr Lyons still trapped in the boot of his car.
Ms McFarlane told the Supreme Court of Victoria jury Thorn had claimed to have had Mr Lyons trapped in the car's boot for up to 21 hours under the baking summer sun.
Thorn, 57, was found guilty this month of the torture, imprisonment and murder of Mr Lyons.
'I walked over to the car that was parked under the tree, and tapped on the boot, and ah, I heard someone scream in the back of the car,' Ms McFarlane told the jury.
Asked what she heard, Ms McFarlane provided a chilling response.
'Get me out of here, or kill me now,' she said.
Thorn had been the leader of a vigilante gang with a very specific hatred for paedophiles.
Albert Thorn shot the innocent dad in the knee and the back of the head after he was forced to dig his own grave
Thorn had tattooed the gang's name, Australian Freedom Fighters, across his entire back
Such was Thorn's hatred for paedophiles, he tattooed the gang's name, Australian Freedom Fighters, across his entire back and posted photographs to Facebook.
It had been spurious intel provided by Hooper, who shared three biological children with Lyons, that lit Thorn's fuse.
In December 2018, Hooper told Thorn she believed Mr Lyons was the father of her 16-year-old daughter's child and had also made her 14-year-old daughter pregnant.
The court heard it was a straight-out lie.
On Sunday, December 2, 2018, Thorn and his gang raided Mr Lyons' home in what was supposed to be an idiotic attempt to beat a confession out of him.
Aided by another mate, Alec Harvey, and Thorn's drug-addled lieutenant, Nicholas Stefani, the men ran into Mr Lyons' bedroom and each punched him in the face and head.
Jordan Bottom lived in a caravan (pictured) on Thorn's property
Mr Lyons was strapped to a massage table in a shed at the top of this image where he was tortured
Harvey struck him with a metal
