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Orders to kill the top Canadian Bandido bikers came from the top, accused ex-cop testifies

By JANE SIMS, THE LONDON FREE PRESS

Posted 2 years ago

The orders to kill Bandido bikers came from"El Presidente."

Ex-cop Michael Sandham, on trial for eight counts of first-degree murder, testified Thursday Jeff Pike, the world president of the Bandido motorcycle club, told him first-hand in a Houston biker bar he had ordered the killing of some Canadian Bandido biker brass.
The bombshell came during the second day of Sandham's testimony at the Bandido murder trial, where he minimize his involvement in the shootings of eight Toronto-area bikers and proclaim shock and fear over the deaths.
While U. S. involvement has been pointed out during the trial, Sandham's testimony was the first time Pike has been directly linked to the shooting of the eight bikers on April 8, 2006 at Wayne Kellestine's southwestern Ontario farm.
The face-to-face meeting with Pike was almost two months after the killings and when Sandham, 39, portrayed during the trial as the president of the Winnipeg Bandidos, travelled to Houston to meet the head bikers.
Sandham testified he first heard Pike's order during a meeting at the Canada-U. S. border, at Peace Arch Park at White Rock, B. C. with American Bandidos in the weeks before the shootings, from the Bandidos World sergeant-at-arms named "Mongo."
Mongo told Sandham and Kellestine "we don't want to tell you what to do, but this is what you're going to do. We want to you to kill Boxer (Bandidos Canada president John Muscedere) and Bam Bam (Toronto chapter president Frank Salerno),'" Sandham testified.
There had been growing tensions between the U. S. and Canadian chapters. In December 2005, the Americans declared the Canadian operations finished.
Sandham said he was at the meeting on the invitation of Dave (Concrete Dave)Weiche, a Toronto Bandido originally from the London area living in Vancouver. Sandham said in his mind he was "bridging that gap and putting us back on the right track"with the Americans.
But when he got to Vancouver, Weiche, who had been busted down to prospect status by the Toronto chapter for communicating with Washington state Bandidos, suggested "a coup d'etat" to get rid of the Canadian biker executives.
"I didn't know what that meant. It was making me uncomfortable."

Sandham said he called Kellestine because he was a senior officer in the club and a meeting was arranged with the Americans at the park. By the end of it, Sandham said, Kellestine had agreed to the kill orders and was also named national president. Mongo said he would take the message back to El Presidente.

Weiche later declared himself vice-president, Sandham said.
Kellestine told Sandham later he wasn't going to let the Americans "dictate" to him and intended only to only pull Muscedere's patch, or club membership without violence.
A few weeks after the meeting, Sandham said Weiche told him and the Winnipeg bikers to go to Muscedere's house in Toronto, follow the original order to kill him-- and not to tell Kellestine.
Sandham said he liked Kellestine's idea better and decided they would go to Kellestine's farm, in Elgin County, tell him the Americans were upset and help him pull Muscedere's patch.
There was extra pressure to go, he said, because he knew two Toronto bikers were on their way to Winnipeg. He said he later found out they had orders from Muscedere to kill him.
After two weeks at the farm, and to his horror, the eight men were shot to death. He reluctantly took part in disposing of the bodies and said he considered going to the Dutton OPP for help.
When Sandham said he was "thinking I should run for it" but was concerned about his family, a man's voice in the public gallery of the courtroom piped up: "You didn't think about mine."
Back in Winnipeg, Sandham said he knew he was under police watch but never went to the police with his story. "I wanted to make sure everyone paid for what they did," he said.
He decided to "set up an illusion" he was "a somebody" in the Canadian Bandido world to get an invitation to the U. S. by the international Bandido leaders, through e-mails.
Once invited, he rode his motor-cycle to Houston and was taken to a Bandido bar. He was strip-searched in the washroom by bikers known as Bandido Pervert and Scary Larry.
And Pike met him. Sandham said he lied to Pike, telling him he had left Kellestine's farm before the killings. He told Pike bikers were sent to Winnipeg to kill him.
Sandham testified Pike said, "Orders are orders." Pike added if he told a biker to urinate in the corner, "he better p---in the corner."
Then Pike told Sandham he gave the original kill order for the top Canadian bikers, Sandham testified.
The meeting had gone well but the next day when he was supposed to meet them again, they never called.
The following day, Bandido Pervert contacted Sandham and said Ontario police had told him Sand-ham had been a police officer. The bikers would be checking.