SHOT DEAD OVER BIKIE DRUG WAR

Murdered Kings Cross security manager Todd O'Connor was part of an
inner-city drug syndicate and the hundreds of thousands of dollars
police found in his apartment after his death was probably profit from
that ring, the Supreme Court has heard.

The claim was made in a criminal assets confiscation hearing about
$635,100 discovered by police in O'Connor's ransacked apartment days
after he was shot dead in Tempe on October 5.

O'Connor, a 41-year-old with a long history in Kings Cross, was shot
in the back of the head on South Street by two men.

It has since been reported that O'Connor - a security manager and
long-time associate of a nightclub promoter and alleged criminal
identity - was murdered as a result of a drug distribution war between
rival outlaw motorcycle clubs.

The Crime Commission now alleges that O'Connor and another man were
involved in a drug syndicate, according to a judgment delivered by
Justice Ian Harrison late last month.

The commission's assistant director of financial investigations,
Jonathan Spark, said he arrived at that conclusion based on evidence
provided by the NSW Police Force, the Australian Federal Police and
information from a Crime Commission informant.

"Part of that information included an allegation that [the other man]
and [O'Connor] were involved in the manufacture and supply of
prohibited drugs," the judgment said.

The money was discovered in O'Connor's luxury apartment in The Domain
Building in Woollomooloo by detectives attached to Strike Force
Colbee, formed to investigate his death. The flat had been ransacked
and a safe was missing but a duffle bag containing the money had been
overlooked.

Police have since said O'Connor may have been lured to his death by
two young men seen driving a grey 2002 model Nissan Pulsar sedan with
a small rear spoiler on the Princes Highway and Short Street.