Canberra Shooting Unrelated to Bikie Feuds and Accused Man Under Heavy Security
Wednesday March 25, 2009
A member of the Rebels Motorcyle Club says that the recent shootings in Chisolm Canberra had nothing to do with motorcycle gang feuds and the recent murder of a Hells Angels member at Sydney Airport on Sunday - it's been claimed it resulted from a love conflict.
The NSW police Gang Squad Commander Mal Lanyon also says the shootings are not linked to bikie gang conflicts.
'At this stage there is no apparent link between the incident down there and the matters we are currently looking at in Sydney," Supt Lanyon told Fairfax Radio Network.
Russell Field, 20, accused of the double murder in Chisolm on Tuesday has gone to Belconnen Remand Centre under a heavy police guard today.
Police are concerned about Field being the target for violence from the dead mens' friends and are applying for Magistrate John Burns to hear Field's initial appearance at the City Watch House in Canberra if Field applied for bail.
Field's lawyer Ben Aulich asked Magistrate John Burns for a three week adjournment so his client could consider his position on his bail application and indicated that Field would plead not guilty.
Ben Aulich, Field's lawyer said that Field would plead not guilty. "We're considering our position on bail, that's why we asked for a three-week adjournment," Mr Aulich told the Canberra Times outside of a heavily guarded court today. "But needless to say, it's going to be a plea of not guilty."
On Tuesday at 3pm a man's body was found in the front yard of a Couchman Crescent home in Chisholm, a southern suburb of Canberra. Around two hours later, police found another man's body in the back yard of the same house.
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