Gypsy Jokers gather for funeral that will soon be illegal

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By Colin James – MSM Legal Affairs Editor
The Adelaide Advertiser (South Australia) | 18 June 2008
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23883992-2682,00.html

GYPSY Jokers from across Australia have gathered in Adelaide for a funeral which would be illegal under new anti-bikie laws introduced by the State Government.

The bikies were farewelling club president Wayne “Chiller” McGrath, 42, a father of four and part-owner of four tattoo parlours, who suffered a fatal heart attack last week while exercising on a treadmill at his Virginia home.

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His sudden death prompted public tributes from Gypsy Jokers members nationally and overseas, including the US, Germany, South Africa and Norway.

More than 300 people – including more than 100 Gypsy Jokers from Adelaide, NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Germany, Norway and the US – this afternoon attended his funeral at Sydney Harrison Funerals, Ridgehaven, before travelling to the Smithfield Memorial Cemetery, Evanston, where his body was buried.

The mourners – who included wives, girlfriends and children – then went to the Gypsy Jokers clubrooms at Wingfield for a wake expected to last most of the week.

Legal sources said under the new anti-bikie laws due to take effect late next month, the funeral and wake would have been declared prohibited events as bikies will be prohibited from associating with each other once their gangs have been declared illegal organisations by Attorney-General Michael Atkinson.

The laws – the first of their kind in Australia apart from the federal anti-terror legislation – have been attacked by lawyers and civil liberatarians as “draconian” and an erosion of individual rights, particularly freedom of association.

Gypsy Jokers Adelaide chapter sergeant-at-arms “Davo” today said it was wrong that bikies would no longer be able to gather together at such events as funerals, weddings and birthday parties with their families and friends.

“They’re f…..d,” he said.

“How can something like a funeral be illegal? We’re here to bury our brother and pay our respects to him and his family.”

Davo, who would not provide his full name, said Mr McGrath was a “staunch member, a dedicated family man”.

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