ALLEGATIONS of young girls being molested and several people getting together to exact retribution are behind a shooting at the Willows caravan park in February, according to information presented to Nowra Local Court on Friday.
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As two more people were charged with being accessories to the shooting, police revealed details of incidents leading up to the shooting, with a number of people involved.
The problems started on February 21, when an eight-year-old girl told her parents she had allegedly been indecently assaulted by James Taylor, who was sharing a caravan with shooting victim Alexander Lindsay.
The parents contacted police and within hours Taylor was arrested and taken away.
However concerns did not stop there. Days later, a four-year-old spoke of being indecently assaulted by the “naughty men” in the caravan park, which the parents believed to be Taylor and Lindsay.
In the days following, the man charged with shooting Lindsay, Gregory Neto of Tomerong who had several friends living in the caravan park, was seen in one of the vans making a silencer, according to police facts.
Neto was allegedly seen standing outside a caravan speaking to one of the people charged with being an accessory to the shooting, Willows resident Mitchell Young, saying he wanted revenge against Lindsay.
“I want to hurt him in a bad way,” Neto allegedly said.
At the time another of the alleged accessories, Konstandinos Boyacioglu, suggested a way of shooting Lindsay but deflecting blame, according to the evidence.
“I’ll knock on the door, and when he comes to the door shoot me in the leg so it looks like I didn’t have anything to do with it,” he allegedly said to Neto.
While the evidence said that was agreed to as a plan, Boyacioglu was not present when on the night of February 25 when Neto went out for a few hours with Amy Barber, Andrew Dinnie, Kylie March and another woman.
When they returned Neto allegedly produced a shortened .22 rifle and a bag containing about 80 bullets. Dinnie allegedly helped by cleaning each bullet individually with alcohol wipes before handing them to Neto so they could be loaded into the rifle’s magazine.
As Neto left the caravan Amy Barber, 27, allegedly said, “Greg’s going to shoot Big Al.”
Around 2am Lindsay was vacuuming his caravan with the front door open when Neto, wearing a dark jumper he had allegedly borrowed from the park’s manager Stephen Coates, allegedly walked up and fired three shots – one of them hitting Lindsay in the chest before lodging on his spine and leaving him a complete paraplegic.
Lindsay collapsed to the floor and Neto fled, returning to the caravan and reuniting with his friends a few hours later, according to police.
The following day Dinnie accompanied Neto as they travelled to Ben’s Walk and disposed of the rifle wrapped in a blue bag for a camping chair, placing it on a ledge in a small cave, the evidence stated.
When caravan park residents were questioned about the shooting all denied any knowledge of what had happened, but telephone calls intercepted by police revealed a different story.
They resulted in eight people being charged over the shooting.
Neto was charged with attempted murder, while Coates, Boyacioglu, Young, Amy Barber and Dinnie were charged with being accessories before the shooting and concealing a serious indictable offence.
Dinnie was also charged with being an accessory after the shooting.
Kylie Martin was charged with concealing a serious indictable offence.
All are before the courts.
An 18-year-old woman had also been charged with concealing a serious indictable offence, but was yet to face court.