KILLER BIKIE IS A FAMILY MAN NOW
A FORMER Bandidos enforcer jailed over a bikie killing says he is now a family man.
Johnny “2 Guns” Walker said he cut ties with the outlaw motorcycle gang while serving an eight-year jail term over the killing of a stranger who riled up a dog outside the gang’s Brunswick clubhouse in 2014.
Just weeks out of prison, the former elite boxer said there was once a time he would have “died for the club”.
But his years away from his son taught him that bikie life was nothing to be glorified and he wanted to be a better dad.
“My son is now 16. When I went to jail he was eight. Before I was in, I was buying him Lego and toys and now I’m out he’s telling me about his girlfriend,” he told podcast The Felon Show. “I owe it to him to lead by example.”
Walker said joining an outlaw motorcycle gang only ended one of two ways: “You end up dead (or) end up in jail.”
The former Bandidos sergeant-at-arms said life inside Victoria’s prison system was “hectic”. He was bounced between jails including the Melbourne Assessment Prison, Metropolitan Remand Centre and Port Phillip Prison before serving out his final years at Marngoneet Correctional Centre. There he made the decision to end gang ties.
“Two years out from being released I parted ways with the Bandidos. We weren’t happy with how the club was going ... so I pulled the pin on the bikie world,” he said.
Walker was a professional boxer and joined the Bandidos after his last world title fight, in 2009. He said exiting the fighting world left him lost and he found the missing feeling of “brotherhood” with the gang.
After months prospecting, he got his patch and soon rose to sergeant-at-arms.
The afternoon of May 24, 2014, he and fellow bikie Luke Maybus bashed to death drunken stranger Michael Strike after he approached Walker’s dog Trouble, who was tied up at the clubhouse.
The assault resulted in both men being charged with murder, which was downgraded to manslaughter.