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Hunted bikie's parole officer quits
By Les Kennedy and Kate McClymont
April 26, 2006

A PAROLE officer has resigned amid an investigation into her relationship with a former jail inmate who is now on the run, wanted for the killing of a Bandidos bikie gang leader.

Corrective Services confirmed to the Herald that the prisons internal affairs unit began an investigation into the parole officer after it was revealed her involvement with the fugitive, 39-year-old Russell Oldham, was linked to an internal split in the Bandidos' city branch, known as the Uptown Chapter.

Last Thursday night, Oldham, a former science and medicine student, allegedly shot dead the chapter's president, Rodney "Hooks" Monk, 32, in a lane near the Bar Reggio restaurant in East Sydney.

Oldham is a former Bandidos national sergeant-at-arms, while Monk was the brother of a senior NSW police officer, Detective Inspector Brad Monk.

But Oldham's relationship with his parole officer contravened the gang's rules. Monk and other bikies had met him at the restaurant to tell him he was being expelled from the club. Monk's killer fired three shots, two of them hitting him in the head. A police taskforce has been hunting for Oldham since.

Oldham was released on parole last year after serving six years of a nine-year sentence for the manslaughter of two men shot dead in a Bankstown house in 1998.

A condition of his parole was that Oldham, who worked at the Illinois Hotel at Five Dock, not associate with any known criminal. It was beholden on his parole officer to ensure this. The Herald has learned that she tendered her resignation on Monday.

Police are expected to provide extra security at Monk's funeral in Sydney tomorrow. They will post officers to control traffic and escort several hundred bikies among the mourners, including members of other outlaw gangs.
 

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