Lorne Edgar Campbell

[1] Campbell's role in the Port 8 Hope case and his life in general has been chronicled in a number of books, most notably the bestsellers A Conspiracy of Brothers by Mick Lowe and Unrepentant by Peter Edwards, and more briefly in the 1990 protest song "Justice in Ontario" by Steve Earle.

[40] Campbell followed the outlaw biker code and refused to name Brockman as the man who shot as he told the police his bullet wound was merely the result of an accident.

[42] Campbell claimed that Brockman found the sight of Smith waving about his useless ketchup bottle like it was a deadly weapon that he broke out laughing, which put an end to the murder attempt.

[45] On 1 July 1977, McEwen arranged for several Satan's Choice chapters to join the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, an act that Campbell sees as a loathsome betrayal.

[47] On the night of 18 October 1978, Campbell was consuming alcohol while watching a hockey game at Satan's Choice Toronto clubhouse when a telephone call from Richard Sauvé of the Peterborough chapter was received.

[52] Matiyek who was very drunk kept talking very loudly about shooting the Satan's Choice members present in the barroom of the Queen's Hotel to impress the two Outlaws he was drinking with.

[53] Campbell denied that the shooting was a case of first-degree murder as alleged by the Crown, saying that Matiyek was drinking with two Outlaws, Fred Jones and Sonny Broson, whom he could have easily killed as his gun still had three bullets left.

[60] Shortly after the Queen's Hotel shooting, Campbell was arrested for assaulting two police officers during a brawl in a Chinese restaurant in Scarborough, which he was convicted of, causing him to spend Christmas 1978 behind bars.

[63] Campbell was willing to accept the Crown's deal, but several of the "Port Hope 8" such as David "Tee Hee" Hoffman and Gordon "Dog Map" Van Haarlem objected under the grounds that they were not at the Queen's Hotel on the night of 18 October 1978, and should not have to do any prison time.

[80] In late 1982, Campbell's friend and fellow Satan's Choice member, Richard "Smutley" Smith was arrested and agreed to turn Crown's evidence in exchange for the charges being dropped.

[81] In April 1983, Campbell was arrested and charged with selling cocaine worth some $3,200 to an undercover policeman on 27 January 1983; with buying explosives with the intent to do harm (i.e. blow up a house in Kitchener); and with three counts of forcible confinement relating to his debt collection work.

[82] Campbell agreed to a plea bargain with the Crown where pledged guilty to the drug, explosive and forcible confinement charges in exchange for the attempted murder being dropped.

[83] At Millhaven, Campbell came to know the three Commisso brothers, namely Rocco Remo, Michele and Cosimo, who had been convicted on the basis of the testimony of a Satan's Choice hitman turned informer, Cecil Kirby.

[84] Campbell was friendly with Cosimo Commisso, whom he worked for as a personal trainer, but found that Rocco Remo Commissio was angry with him because of Kirby had once belonged to Satan's Choice.

[86] At Collins Bay, Campbell met up with one of the "Port Hope 8", Richard Sauvé, who had renounced his former lifestyle as he had converted to Buddhism during his time in prison, making him into an advocate of non-violence.

[96] In the summer of 1989, Guindon and Campbell led a delegation of Satan's Choice members on a lengthy trip to the Prairie provinces, meeting with the leaders of Los Bravos gang of Winnipeg and the Grim Reapers in Calgary and Lethbridge to form alliances.

[102] In 1990, the American country singer Steve Earle released the protest song "Justice in Ontario" about the Port Hope 8 case, which features a reference to Campbell, albeit not by name as the lyrics go "And they brought 'em in every single one/Save the man who actually fired the gun".

[105] The presence of Earle was there to ensure Campbell's safety as the possibility of injuring or killing a famous country singer would have brought the Outlaws too much media and police attention.

[109] Campbell, together with three others members of the Oshawa chapter, were hired as the guards for cigarette smugglers on the Mohawk St. Regis/Akwesasne reservation that spanned across the international border in upstate New York and eastern Ontario.

[110] Campbell kept guard over boxes of contraband cigarettes that arrived on trucks on the American side of the border and were loaded onto speedboats to take across the St. Lawrence River.

[111] The work was dangerous as rival gangs were known to hijack the speedboats with the intention of seizing the contraband cigarettes for themselves, causing Campbell to keep a machine gun on his person at all times when crossing the St.

[113] Unknown to Campbell, the suppliers of the American end of the smuggling network were the Northern Brands International unit of the RJR Nabisco Holdings Corporation.

[116] Campbell left the cigarette smuggling business in 1994 because of the "Wild West" atmosphere on the Mohawk reserve, saying: "I was on parole and my instincts told me it was time to move on.

[127] At a party at the clubhouse of the Paris chapter of the Hells Angels, Campbell discovered to his surprise that the story of the Port Hope 8 case is well known in Europe and found himself being celebrated as the man who testified that he killed Matiyek.

[150] Campbell together with the chapter president John "Winner" Neal, vice-president Douglas Myles and Larry Pooler all paid off Bahman's $100, 000 drug debt to Sansalone and Bayani.

[153] Campbell's cellmate was an African-American man, Gary Freeman, who had fled to Canada in 1969 after shooting and wounding a white Chicago police officer, whom he claims to have shot in self-defense.

[157] Much to Campbell's disgust, in October 2008, Kenneth "Wags" Wagner of the Hells Angels Niagara chapter who had been charged by evidence collected by the informer Steven Gault pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine, selling a handgun and having living off the proceeds of crime as the police found $150, 657 in cash hidden in his house.

[158] Likewise, Campbell was disgusted when Terry Pink, the president of the Hells Angels Simcoe County chapter who was charged on the basis collected by Gault cried in court as he begged the judge to give him a light sentence after his conviction in February 2009.

[163] Bahman planned to plead guilty to the criminal conspiracy charges in exchange for a lesser sentence, which Campbell warned would worsen the situation of himself and the other accused, stating that he said: "Juicy, don't do that.

[165] In May 2011, Bryant, argued in his summary to the jury: "That idea that someone can only be convicted of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt is a hallmark of the Anglo-Canadian criminal justice system-a bulwark that separates our system from those of other societies considerably less free and democratic".