DETECTIVES are investigating tit-for-tat bikie attacks as bad blood between members of the Hunter's outlaw bikie gangs continues to escalate with a second drive-by shooting in just days.
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In the latest shooting, a home on Conder Crescent in the Maitland suburb of Metford was sprayed with bullets from multiple weapons in the early hours of Monday morning, in what is understood to be a reprisal attack on an ex-Nomad who later defected to the Finks.
There were no injuries in the Metford drive-by, despite the man's young family being home at the time.
It is the second targeted gun attack in the Hunter in three days, after the Nomads' Islington clubhouse was shot at multiple times about 10.30pm on Saturday.
And it comes after two violent assaults; one at the Anytime Fitness gym in Kotara on Friday, and another in Honeysuckle the next night.
Three Nomads members, who are accused of being separately involved in the assaults, were all granted bail.
Kane Benjamin Tamplin, 26, appeared in court on Monday, where he pleaded not guilty to charges of affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm stemming from an alleged assault on two Sydney men, aged 42 and 40, in a Honeysuckle hotel on Saturday night.
According to police, Tamplin is accused of head-butting and punching the 42-year-old man.
Tamplin’s solicitor, Iain Bruce, applied for bail on his behalf and it was granted by Magistrate Robert Stone.
His matter was adjourned to May.
Dylan Britliffe, 32, who police said was a member of the Nomads, was charged with affray and reckless wounding in company in relation to the alleged Honeysuckle hotel brawl.
Britliffe is accused of hitting the 40-year-old Sydney man in the side of the neck with a glass about 7.15pm.
The 40-year-old man suffered a deep laceration to his neck and fell to the ground, where his head was allegedly stomped on, police said.
Britliffe was granted conditional bail in Newcastle Bail Court on Sunday, with his matter adjourned to next week.
Blake Kevin Martin, 26, of Branxton, who is alleged to have used a steel bar to bash a rival Finks member at a Kotara gym about 4.30pm on Friday, was also granted conditional bail on Sunday. His matter was adjourned to next week.
Police are let to lay charges over either of the shootings.
