Video shows the terrifying moment the wife of a notorious bikie fled the scene of her husband’s shooting and cowered in an elevator while trying to get help.
Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu, 40, was fatally shot multiple times in the basement car park of his apartment building in Sydney’s inner west in June 2022.
The ex-gangster, who had been acquitted of shooting dead former Comanchero boss Mick Hawi, died the following day in hospital on June 28.
New CCTV footage played in the NSW Supreme Court showed the moment Nazlioglu and his glamorous wife, Jade Jeske, pulled into the car park in a black Mercedes.
Nazlioglu’s killers were lying in wait in a silver Volkswagen Golf which had arrived only minutes before the couple were seen entering the carpark.
A hooded gunman ran up to the Mercedes and opened fire, before running back to the Volkswagen, which then sped out of the car park.
Ms Jeske could be seen rushing into an elevator and frantically pushing buttons as she tried to reach the ground floor, five levels up, and contact police.
She then collapsed on her haunches in a state of shock as the lift began to move.
Jade Jeske, the glamorous wife of Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu, could be seen rushing into an elevator and frantically pushing buttons as she tried to reach the ground floor and find help
Ms Jeske collapsed on her haunches in a state of shock as the lift started moving upwards
Nazlioglu and Ms Jeske arrived in basement carpark of their unit building in a black Mercedes
Mohammed Baltagi, 26, Mohammed Hosni Khaled, 27, and Abdulrahman Mohamed Atteya, 31, were each charged with murder through a joint criminal agreement.
On Monday, Atteya was found guilty of murder after lengthy deliberations by a jury.
His family, who filled the NSW Supreme Court’s public gallery, let out gasps, cries and prayers as the verdict was handed down.
Earlier this month, Khaled was found guilty over the shooting while Baltagi was acquitted and walked free.
Atteya and Khaled will remain behind bars until their sentencing dates.
During the trial, Ms Jeske, formerly Jade Heffer, described the moment she ducked under the dashboard of the car as her husband was shot.
She told the court she saw someone covering his head running with a pistol towards her husband as he stood next to their car.
As Ms Jeske hid under the dash, she said she heard eight successive gunshots and then a further two, the jury heard.
During the trial, Ms Jeske, formerly Jade Heffer, described the moment she ducked under the dashboard of the car as her husband was shot
Ms Jeske, formerly Jade Heffer is pictured outside Downing Centre Court in Sydney in April
She managed to briefly film the Volkswagen with her phone before running to the elevator.
The jury heard Nazlioglu’s killing may have been motivated by the theft of two rented luxury vehicles from a business in Lansdale, in western Sydney.
Crown prosecutor Eric Balodis said Nazlioglu had hired two Mercedes vehicles, one black and one white, from the business in May 2022.
Nazlioglu had himself faced a lengthy murder trial in 2020 after Comanchero boss Mick Hawi was gunned down at Fitness First in Rockdale in 2018.
He was accused of being the balaclava-clad gunman but he and Jamal Eljaidi – said to be his getaway driver – were both acquitted by a jury.
The Crown alleged Nazlioglu was motivated to kill Hawi after the former close friends fell out when the relationship soured during a fishing trip to the Central Coast in 2016.
Atteya, Baltagi and Khaled had all pleaded not guilty to their charges and denied any involvement in the shooting.
