

The gangster with the target on his head knew it was only a matter of time before they came for him. After all, he had fallen out with the Comancheros - certainly Australia’s most ruthless outlaw motorcycle gang.

He knew that his imposing muscles, built through gym sessions and illegal steroids, and the handgun he had begun carrying could not protect him from an ambush. He had already been shot in the leg, but suspected the next one would not be a wounding or a warning.

His only hope, it would be seem, would be if the hit squad that was sent for him was particularly stupid. Which is why he took to parking his luxury BMW sedan with identifiable Queensland plates two doors from his house even though he could have easily concealed it at his garage at the rear.

The plan was simple. Farshad Rasooli, 26, lived in a street of similar looking townhouses and if his would-be killers were spectacularly inept, they may just pick the wrong house. It was both a hope of desperate survival and one of cynical opportunism - better someone else than him.

And so it was to be - police believe the contract killers spotted the car and drove down the rear laneway to shoot Rasooli, also known as Farshad Al Afghani, when he eventually went out the back way, probably to avoid attention.