Sydney bikie charged with kidnapping woman for 2 days
A Sydney man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a woman and holding her prisoner for two days in a bikie club house. The 29-year-old man is said to be a member of the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club.
According to the 22-year-old alleged victim, she was walking in Cambridge Park on Sunday evening when a Ford Mustang pulled up. The man, whom she knew, then allegedly forced her inside the vehicle. The man drove her to the bikie gang’s club house in Horsley Park where she was bound to a pole and assaulted over the next two days.
On Tuesday, she was forced back into the Ford Mustang and driven to South Penrith, where she managed to escape to a nearby property to call the police. She was taken to a hospital in a stable condition.
Officers from Nepean Police Area Command went to the bikie gang’s club house a short time later after speaking to the alleged victim. The man tried to flee but was intercepted by officers from the Fairfield Police Area Command, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, and the Public Order and Riot Squad among other specialist groups. After a two-hour standoff, the man surrendered peacefully.
He was taken to Fairfield Police Station and charged on Wednesday with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, take/detain person with intent to obtain advantage cause actual bodily harm, breach AVO, and stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm. He was refused bail.