Hellfire club massacre shooter Kon Georgiou has revealed what happened for the first time in a stunning new book about his life as a bikie.
It was the early hours of November 10, 1997, in a dingy cellar below the Blackmarket Cafe nightclub – also known as Hellfire – that five men faced each other in a tense stand-off.
Upstairs the club was rocking with hard core partygoers, some fuelled by the freely available drugs in the venue controlled by the Rebels bikie gang.
The Hellfire club – named for the kink and bondage nights held there with whips, hot wax and fetish devices – had given the place its reputation.
Located in Sydney’s grimy inner city Chippendale, the distinctive 19th century building at 111 Regent Street, the club was about to get even more notorious.
What actually happened before all hell broke loose has never been told before due to the code of silence even among enemy clubs.
But now Rebel bikie Kon Georgiou, is telling the story from a cell in Australia’s toughest jail, Supermax, where he secretly wrote a book despite the prison governor forbidding him to do so.
On the evening in question, Georgiou recounts, 14 members of the Bandidos club had breached rival territory and entered the Rebel club, their arrival alone a provocative act.
The Bandidos were notorious for violence since their fiery clash with the Comanchero bikie gang in western Sydney in the infamous 1984 Milperra Bikie Massacre.
