Is that this Dayne Brajkovich?
That’s the query Justice of the Peace Sarah Oliver should reply over the Christmas and New Yr interval.
And that is the CCTV footagetendered in court docket after which obtained by The West Australian, that she should watch to make her choice.
The question stems from an incident alleged to have occurred in January this 12 months when Brajkovich is accused of flaunting Hells Angels insignia in public whereas strolling previous Ascot Racecourse.
Police say an officer noticed the ex-sergeant-at-arms of the infamous gang in a white shirt embossed with the “demise’s head” — a emblem that consists of a cranium with wings, and the letters “HAMC” — the well-known acronym for the Hells Angels outlaw bike membership.
The cop behind the allegation, Sen-Sgt Graham Doran, then took a video of the person, who he says is “100 per cent” Brajkovich.
“I noticed his face, his tattooed face. I do know it is Mr Brajkovich,” Sen-Sgt Doran stated, earlier than describing the white t-shirt the particular person within the video had been carrying.
However Brajkovich, who pleaded not responsible to the cost of displaying the insignia of an recognized group in public, strongly denies it’s him within the video.
After taking the stand throughout his one-day trial in Perth Magistrates Courtroom earlier this week, the 43-year-old claimed the shirt worn by the particular person depicted within the video was an affordable knock-off.
“I’ve obtained 200 grand round my neck, I do not put on faux s…,” he stated, referring to his signature heavy gold chain he is repeatedly seen carrying round his neck.
“That is my trademark, everybody is aware of that.”
He additionally argued that the phrase “Australia” ought to be written below the letters “HAMC” on the again of the shirt in query and that nothing however the “demise’s head” ought to have been seen because it breached the Hells Angels official merchandise laws set out within the “world rule guide” offered to members.
“You are not allowed to have something aside from the patch on the again,” Brajkovich stated.
“They (gang enforcers) press costs for s… like that.”
Brajkovich’s lawyer additionally argued that the person within the footage couldn’t have been him, as a result of his consumer had been kicked out of the Hells Angels a number of days earlier on January 16.
Afterward, the ex-gang enforcer instructed the court docket he’d been expelled from the membership by telephone name after “bashing” the membership’s president, and that due to the unceremonious goodbye, he wouldn’t have been “seen lifeless” exhibiting off ” Hells Angels something”.
He additionally claimed that he was so disgusted by his former gang’s conduct that he would get his spouse Jacinta Lorraine Hill to make use of black pen and basis to cowl up his Hells Angels tattoos each time he left the home.
“I obtained instructed by telephone name that I used to be out,” he stated. “After (that) there is no method I might be carrying Hells Angels s…, f… them.”
After that, he claims to have waited two days for his Hells Angels paraphernalia to be collected by members of the gang – however stated that “no one got here”.
“It felt f…… pathetic,” he stated. “They normally take all of your gear off, something Hells Angels.”
When he realized nobody was coming, Brajkovich collected his large wardrobe of bikie membership clothes, positioned it into “eight huge rubbish baggage” and left it at a Good Sammy donation bin.
“I had Hells Angels all the things,” he stated. “The one factor I did not have was Hells Angels socks and jocks.
“And I removed the lot. I wasn’t going to put on something Hells Angels after they kicked me out like that.”
Brajkovich, whose ink has change into synonymous with the State’s powerful new gang legal guidelines, can be going through one other depend of displaying insignia in public.
He denies this second allegation as effectively, not as a result of it is a case of mistaken identification just like the Ascot incident, however as a result of he says no gang logos would have been seen in the course of the incident in query.
Police allege on that event, Brajkovich and his spouse Jacinta Hill walked previous a police officer whereas purchasing at Belmont Discussion board Procuring Heart on January 30, at which level the cops declare to have seen a “1 per cent” tattoo on Brajkovich’s neck, and the phrases “Hells Angels” inked on his head.
To that allegation, Brajkovich stated there was no method the police officer may have been shut sufficient to him to obviously distinguish between any of the tons of of tattoos etched throughout his total face and physique as a result of he’d been along with his new spouse and “nobody will get half a meter near my f…ing missus”.
He additionally claims that from the day he’d been kicked out by the Hells Angels, to the day he was in a position to tattoo over his club-specific ink, he’d gotten Ms Hill to “weave her magic” and canopy up the insignia with basis and black Texta.
Whereas giving proof in court docket on Monday, Ms Hill corroborated the story, saying she’d woken up each morning earlier than he went to work at 6.30am to cowl up the ink in query.
Ms Oliver will ship her verdict in January.
