At the height of the Sydney biky Wars of 2009, the young and charming Comm hero president, mmud Mick Hae, appeared to have it all. The national leader of one of Australia’s most well-known outlaw motorcycle groups, known for embellishing the flashy outlaw lifestyle, had all the trappings of a successful biky: wealth, power, a beautiful wife, two children, and a seeming ability to cheat death within the palm of his hand.
Mick hoe seemed untouchable, though, with the volatile nature of Sydney’s underworld, it can all be taken away in a matter of moments. This is the life and times of Mick ho.
Hoe was born in Beirut, Lebanon, into a Sunni Muslim family. In 1985, his family fled the Lebanon Civil War as refugees and settled in Sydney, Australia. How’s childhood was described as “uneventful, if meager” by a judge in 2011.
At the age of 16, Howe left school to work for his father’s spray painting business. However, the 9-to-5 life wasn’t for hoe. Like a lot of young men, he SE a sense of excitement and belonging. It was in 1998 that hoe, aged 18, joined the common chiro motorcycle club.
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How was described as a man who lived by the biky code and never snitched. From a young age, how he had big aspir ations and had his eye on the top spot. It’s reported that a young hoe rode out to Windsor, in Northwest Sydney, with a few other common Heroes and told jock Ross, who called himself the commander of the club, that they were retiring him.
Just four years after joining the club, hoe became the national president of the common Heroes at 22, and he demanded respect. His lieutenants were hakin AEK and durx naguru, who were major money earners for the club, especially AEK, who organized massive drug importations and was said to be a genius at money laundering.
There were two sides to Howe. One was a hardened and feared outlaw biky who ordered beatings and bombings of rival clubhouses, while the other was a family man who married his childhood sweetheart, kolina Gonzalez, and had two children.
As well as living an outlaw biky life, Howe was also reportedly a successful businessman who took care of his family. In 2007, Howe set up a refrigerated transport company and employed his father.
Unlike a lot of others in the underworld, Howe didn’t have a history of drug or alcohol abuse and appeared to have led a settled life characterized by his self-employment and involvement with his family. Despite being in charge of a fierce outlaw motorcycle club, how he managed to keep his hands relatively clean, other than a few driving offenses, an offens of language charge, and being caught in possession of a prescripted restricted substance in 2005.
How, however, Ho’s reputation within the Sydney underworld was growing. It reported that the club was making huge profits from drug deals, and the common Heroes and Mick hoe were making enemies. Though it wasn’t until the infamous biky brawl at Sydney airport in 2009 that how’s name became more widely known.
In 2007, after a Lely Lune with members of the think biky gang, how’s car was sprayed with bullets. He narrowly escaped with his life as he sped off. One of the bullets was found lodged in the headrest, showing just how close how he came to death that day.
Most thought the Hell’s Angels were behind the shooting, though this was never proved. During this time, tensions were high, as it was reported that the Hell’s Angels were trying to muscle in on common Cho stronghold, bright andly SS.
Hell’s Angels member Peter zervas had recently been released from jail and decided to open a tattoo parlor called Angel’s cosmetics tattoo in Bay Street, brightly Sands. Unsurprisingly, the common Heroes were not impressed.
The president of the Sydney chapter of the Hell’s Angels, Derek wayah whoo, and Mick hoe had organized a sit-down to discuss the problems with zerv as’s paror. An underworld figure told news outlet the Sydney Herald, during the meeting, Anthony zervas, younger brother of Peter Zas, arrived with a soff shotgun.
A scuffle ensued, during which one of the common cheerers was hit in the head with the gun. The peace talks were over. The next day, the tattoo parlor was sprayed with bullets. Several weeks later, the parlor was firebombed, and the building went up in flames. This wouldn’t be the last time Mick hoe had a run-in with the zervas Brothers.
2009: the year of the infamous Sydney airport brawl.
In March 2009, hoe was on a domestic flight from Melbourne to Sydney, alongside four of his fellow common Cho members, when he spotted the unmistakable wings of the Hell’s Angels on the T-shirt of Derek wayo. A witness stated a member of the common Heroes yelled, “You’re a dead man walking!” as they boarded the plane.
Each called for reinforcements to be waiting at Sydney. On the ground, all hell broke loose. A wild brawl erupted in front of terrified travelers and children. During the brawl, Anthony zervas suffered a fatal head injury, along with multiple stab wounds to the ch T.
The brawl allegedly ended with Howe screaming at Peter zervas, “You’re dead! You’re effing dead! Next time I see you, you’re going to have bullet holes through you!”
Howie went into hiding after the airport incident and was, for a time, Australia’s most wanted man. Just over a week after Anthony zervas was killed at Sydney International Airport, his brother Peter was shot multiple times in the car park of his home in Sydney Southwest. After an unknown gunman fired 10 shots into his car, Peter zervas was rushed to hospital and survived the attack.
Shortly after going on the run, hoe decided to hand himself into police. Howe was charged with second-deegree murder, and his trial began on the 25th of May 2011.
On the 1st of November 2011, Howe was found guilty of second-deegree murder and AF Fray, and was sentenced to a maximum of 28 years in prison, with a non-parole period of 21 years. However, the judge felt that the crown had not established that ho had personally inflicted any blows on zervas, but that his presence would undoubtedly have had the effect of authorizing and approving the actions of the man who bludgeoned Anthony’s zervas to death.
Howe appealed the murder conviction and, in a plea bargain with the crown on the 4th of September 2014, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Hoe received a reduced sentence of 6 years and 2 months, with a minimum non-parole period of 3 years, 6 months.
Due to Ho’s incarceration, the common Cho had a vacancy to fill. It was Mark budle who eventually appointed himself as the common Cho’s national president.
In 2015, Howe was released on parole due to time already served. It was reported, after being released from prison, Howe kept a low profile. He was also under strict parole conditions, which banned him from making contact with any member of the zerve as family.
Howe was also banned from associating with outlaw motorcycle gang members or visiting any bikey-operated premises. The other conditions included that how was never to possess a firearm, nor use or possess prohibited drugs. However, despite this, Ho’s underworld life soon caught up with him.
On the 14th of February 2018, while sitting in his car, which was parked at the Rockdale Fitness First gym on the south side side of Sydney, a masked gunman ran up to the window of his four-wheel drive and shot hoe multiple times in the head, before returning to the getaway car and speeding off with an accomplice.
The brutal murder was caught on a CCTV camera across the road from the gym. Howe was treated by paramedics at the scene and taken to hospital in critical condition, but died hours later.
The police hunt for the masked killer began. Shortly after the shooting, the police found a burnt-out Mercedes that had been used as a getaway car. There was also CCTV footage of two masked men running through a nearby street after the shooting.
Six months into the investigation, and the police arrested three men: Yousef nazle Ogo, who police accused of being the trigger man; Jamal elji, who was accused of being the getaway driver; and armad Doha, who was accused of disposing of the getaway car.
Doha pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to Ho’s murder and was sentenced to a non-parole period of 3 years, 4 months in jail.
Nasle oglu and El jahii stood trial for murder before the Supreme Court jury in a case the crown admitted was circumstantial and featured no direct evidence either man was responsible for how’s murder.
How’s widow, karolina Gonzalez, told the courts nasle Ogo had once been a very close friend to her late husband. The friendship at sard during a fishing trip in New South Wales’s Central Coast in the of 2016, when hoe called his wife and said the pair had fallen out. Hoe had told his wife he was embarrassed by nazle oo’s behavior and had ordered him to return to Sydney.
Police alleged, after murdering hoe, the men fleed the scene and then torched the Mercedes getaway car. They then escaped in a silver Toyota, which was found a month later at Roseberry.
The court herd nazle Ogo and El jahi’s genetic profiles were linked to DNA evidence found in in the Toyota, where police also found gunshot residue on a balaclava.
Both defendants denied, during the month-long trial, they were the men seen on the CCTV camera running away from the scene of Ho’s murder. El jahi’s defense also claimed he was too tall to be the getaway driver who was seen on the CCTV footage.
El jahii measured at 199 cm tall, 6’5″. However, estimates of the men who were seen sprinting away after the first getaway car was set on fire put the tallest of the two men at 186.65, margin for error.
After a week of deliberation, on the 9th of September 2020, the jury found nazle oo and El jahii not guilty of murder. However, nazle oo subsequently pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of possession of a firearm and was jailed for 3 years.
He was released from jail in September 2021. However, from that moment, his days were numbered. While in custody, nasle oglu was secretly recorded talking to another prisoner about his fate. He told the fellow prisoner, “I used to hear people outside were going to knock me.”
On the 27th of June 2022, nazle Ogo was shot multiple times in front of his partner in the car park of his apartment building. He later died in hospital.
The brutal executions of Mick ho and Yousef nasle Ogo shows just how volatile Sydney’s underworld can be: two lives lost and two men taken away from their loved ones.
