Bikie wars: Man and woman shot at Robina Town Centre

TWO people - a man and a woman - have been shot at the Gold Coast's busiest shopping centre. Police have swarmed on Robina Town Centre in what is believed to be a bikie-related shooting. The shooting happened outside the toilets at the cinema. The male victim has been identified by police sources as Jacques Teamo, a  Bandidos motorcycle gang member. The woman is understood to be an innocent bystander, aged in her 50s. Teamo is a senior Bandido who owns East Coast Ink, a Mermaid Beach tattoo parlour which was shot up on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. Couriermail.com.au video of the scene shows a victim being wheeled out of the Vodafone store on a stretcher as hundreds of shoppers look ...

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KFC ordered to pay $8.3 million to Australian girl

Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap. Monika Samaan was seven when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy -- a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock -- in October 2005. Several other family members also fell ill and they claimed Samaan's injuries, which include severe cognitive, motor and speech impairment and spastic quadriplegia, were caused by a chicken Twister wrap from a Sydney KFC outlet. The New South Wales Supreme Court ruled in the family's favour a week ago and on Friday ordered KFC to pay the girl Aus$8 million in damages plus legal costs. In a statement, the family's...

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A motorcycle gang leader has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for murdering a brother of a rival gang member during a brawl at Sydney Airport.

Comanchero national president Mahmoud 'Mick' Hawi was found guilty by a New South Wales state Supreme Court jury in November last year of the March 2009 murder of Anthony Zervas, the brother of Hells Angels member Peter Zervas.Justice Robert Allan Hulme set a nonparole period of 21 years for the 31-year-old and a maximum of 28 years for the murder.Anthony Zervas suffered stab wounds and massive head injuries when he was attacked with bollards and kicked, punched and stomped on as he lay on the floor of the domestic terminalHawi was also found guilty of affray for which he received a fixed term of three years, six months to be partly accumulated with the murder term.The sentence is backdated to when he went into custody in May 2009.The judge...

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