Following the alleged drug kingpin’s extradition to Australia, Comancheros chief Allan Meehan sent a message of support for his former bikie boss Mark Buddle on social media.
The new national Comancheros leader shared a photo of Buddle sitting in the back of an armoured police car after appearing in court, glaring defiantly back at the camera.
Can’t keep a good man down, Meehan wrote beneath the photo of the smirking Buddle.
He signed off his Instagram post with a heart emoji in the Comancheros’ signature yellow colour.
The article was published on the same day that Mel Ter Wisscha, Buddle’s spouse, had her racy past exposed in a number of photos from her time as an NRL cheerleader.
Roberta Williams, a legendary Melbourne gangland widow and Carl Williams’ ex-wife, loved Meehan’s post and responded with an emoji of praying hands.
After Buddle, 37, left the country six years ago, Meehan, 35, a Sydney native, officially assumed the position in June.
Despite being abroad, Buddle proclaimed himself the Comancheros “Commander of the World”; Meehan’s article supports Buddle’s continued leadership of the bikie group.
Buddle and Ms. Wisscha apparently left the nation and were living the high life in Dubai, Turkey, and Cyprus when he was implicated in the shooting death of Armaguard guard Gary Allibon in Sydney in 2010.
While they were travelling, Ms. Wisscha frequently updated her social media accounts with bikini photos of herself in far-off lands and opulent five-star resorts.
However, images from her time as an NRL Wests Tigers cheerleader surfaced again on Saturday, revealing a more natural appearance than her present heavily-made-up one.
When she was still going by Melanie Terwisscha, a less exotic name, she received the 2005 Big League Cheer Girls of the Year title.
The touchline pin-up received a regal $1,000 for the victory, but that was a far cry from the luxurious lifestyle she had been leading up until that point.
According to reports, she and Buddle quietly broke up a year ago, but Ms. Wisscha continued to live a life of luxury up until she was apprehended by Turkish officials on July 22.
As she left her Bitez, Turkey, home near the popular tourist destination of Bodrum, police pounced on her taxi and arrested her for being a “foreigner who presented a risk to public order and security.”
Even though she is currently being held in an immigration detention facility as she waits for a judgement regarding her future, she was not aware that her ex-partner had been sent back to Australia.
Buddle was taken into custody on July 12 during a raid on his home in Iskele, Northern Cyprus, when police smashed through the windows to take him and deport him to Turkey before he was subsequently returned to Australia this week.
He was shown being virtually pulled backwards onto a flight down to Melbourne to appear in court in footage from his arrival in Darwin.
Buddle, 37, appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday to answer to charges related to the $40 million importation of 160kg of cocaine in May 2021.
Additionally, he is accused of planning to bring in a commercial amount of a substance that was under border control between March 19 and June 3, 2021.
He was remanded in custody by Magistrate Kieran Gilligan to return by videolink on November 25 despite the fact that he risks life in prison on each offence.