Bikies face jail over Ibrahim home meeting

Two senior bikies could be jailed for meeting at the home of the matriarch of Sydney's Ibrahim family. Last month Jamie Zammit, the Sydney president of the Nomads bikie gang, was one of the first four men to be charged with the new consorting offence. Also charged were two alleged associates and senior Nomads gang member Sleiman Tajjour, a cousin of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim. The men could each be jailed for up to three years for communicating with convicted criminals. Amongst the allegations are that Zammit met with Tajjour and co-accused David Brannan at Mr Ibrahim's mother's house at Merrylands in Sydney's west, and again two weeks later at the cafe in the Downing Centre court complex. Their alleged associate Justin Hawthorne, 21, is also charged with consorting with Tajjour at Pemulwuy in Sydney's west last month. Zammit had already pleaded not guilty and today lawyers for his co-accused entered the same plea. Zammit and two supporters made obscene gestures to waiting photographers as they left court this morning.