[2] A barely literate boy, he took to writing out his feelings in a diary full of spelling mistakes, a habit that was to endure for the rest of his life.

[6] Ross demanded that all of the Comancheros join him in seeking revenge for the beating, and was enraged when Spencer refused to have the Birchgrove chapter involved.

[6] In one of his first acts as a chapter president, Spencer visited the United States to buy parts for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, which were both difficult and expensive to obtain in Australia at the time.

[8] In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Spencer met Ronnie Hodge, the president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club whose headquarters are in Houston, Texas.

[9] When Hodge told him that he was willing to open a pipeline for selling both legitimate and stolen motorcycle parts in Australia, Spencer jumped at the chance and took him up on his offer.

[10] Hodge had once served in the United States Marine Corps, and formed a strong rapport with the former sailor Spencer, who admitted to him that he found Ross to be too overbearing.

[14] The Australian journalists Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey wrote that Spencer seemed ill-suited for leadership as there was a "permeant feeling of uneasiness about him.

[18] During a swap meet, used and new motorcycle parts along with motorcycle-related memorabilia and trinkets were put on the market while barbecue food and alcohol were sold in plentiful quantities.

[10] Spencer had learned that Ross and the Comancheros were present at the swap meet waiting for him, and decided to confront him rather staying away, which he thought was cowardly.

[20] Spencer ordered the Bandidos to bring hunting rifles and shotguns to the swap meet as he expected violence, which later proved to be a crucial part in the Crown's indictment of him for first-degree murder.

[20] Podgorski testified at the trial that Spencer was a weak leader who attempted to assert his tenuous authority by trying to act tough, hence his determination to "bash" the Comancheros at the swap meet.

[20] Spencer was driven to the swap meet in a Holden station wagon car by Stephen "Bear" Robert while Gregory "Shadow" Campbell and Tony "Lard" Melville sat beside him.

[21] The Comancheros led by Ross had been waiting to ambush the Bandidos, but let their guard down when Spencer and the rest were half an hour late to the Viking Tavern.

It remains unclear even today who fired the first shot, but it is clear that the shoot-out in the parking lot of the Viking Tavern began very shortly after the Bandidos arrived.

[26] By the time the police arrived, four Comancheros, two Bandidos and Leanne Walters, an innocent teenage girl caught in the crossfire, were all dead.

[30] The Crown alleged in its indictment of Spencer that though he not killed anyone himself, his position as Bandidos national president; his decision to have his followers armed; and to go to the Viking Tavern knowing full well that violence was likely to occur made him just as guilty of murder as those who actually pulled the triggers.

[31] Spencer had never been imprisoned before and told Denholm in a phone call that jail was "another fuckin' institution" just like the Royal Australian Navy and the group homes he had grown up in.

[37] Spencer wrote in his diary on 22 April 1985: "I think sometimes if I died then things might have been better because then I wouldn't be called a Jock Ross-that hurt me real bad when people said it".

[38] The perception that Spencer was a coward greatly troubled him along with the belief that Denholm would leave him for another man once he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on 7 counts of first-degree murder.

[39] On 28 April 1985, Spencer hanged himself in his cell at the Parklea Maximum Security Jail while facing charges of first-degree murder.

[40] His badly written suicide note read: "I, Tony Spencer, do not want my wife to have any part in my life or death.