David Deicke’s Melbourne Collision Repair Centre on Ormond Road firebombed in suspected bikie extortion plot

A group of men saw them smashing their car windows before they burned them. According to witnesses, one of the arsonists set himself on fire.

Police said they suspected that the fires were connected and that they were suspicious.

Only weeks ago, on July 18, Laverton on Trahholm Boulevard was the target of driving.

All three Melbourne Smash repair locations have now been the subject of suspicious fires.

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Announced by deicke Age To have at the beginning of this year Connections to the Motorcycle Gang.

The old boxer built his reserve through a chain of shot repair workshops before expanding property development, luxury car rental and hospitality.

While talking Age According to the records submitted to the Australian securities and Investments Commission in July, Deicke rejected Smash repair work registered to his long -term partner Belinda Pitts.

He told Masthead didn’t know why businesses were targeted.

“I have no idea, but I have it. We have four little children and we need to be left alone,” he said.

Deicke’s businesses have a story of violence. In 2014, one of the two members of the Comanchero-Buns is now the lying crime figure Hawre Sherwani- The arms of the man in a workshop belonging to Deicke After trying to leave the club.

Other fire -damaged properties are a car washing in Brighton and another panel tattoo in Moonee Ponds.

According to a website that introduces commercial interests, including property development, hospitality and life coaching, he describes himself as “devotion, innovation and entrepreneurial success”.

Deicke’s website, “the journey that has been covering for more than twenty years, shows a remarkable orbit to a business innovative from a competitive boxer, and ultimately to a luxury specialist,” he says.

Five times, World Boxing Champion Lester Ellis’s half -brother Deicke has been associated with many fire -damaged properties. In 2023, he agreed to buy a Portea Mansion from Wallace Cameron, former pathology manager Wallace Cameron, but the property was destroyed by fire before the agreement was closed.

The cause of the fire was not determined and Deicke was returned to a $ 800,000 deposit.

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