Bikie links to firebombed Sydney tattoo shop

By police reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Posted December 06, 2011 08:27:41

A bikie tattoo parlour has been targeted in an arson attack in north-western Sydney overnight, following the fatal stabbing of a boy yesterday.

The blaze was lit at the Naked Gun 2 tattoo studio at South Windsor just before 1:00am (AEDT).

The shop was damaged and the fire also caused smoke damage to an upstairs unit.

The same parlour was sprayed with bullets last year and a bikie was shot in the leg there in 2008.

Last night's attack came after the 15-year-old son of a bikie from the Lone Wolf gang was stabbed to death yesterday at Minchinbury.

Hayden Burnes was killed outside a mechanic's shop where he had begun working as an apprentice just a few days earlier.

Police have not ruled out a link between the attacks, though officers yesterday played down speculation the stabbing could be an escalation of a fued between the Lone Wolf and Rebels gangs.

In a separate attack in the city's inner west early this morning a four-wheel drive was ploughed into the Italia restaurant at North Strathfield and set alight.

Firefighters put out the blaze soon afterwards.