Perth bikie Troy Mercanti accused of ‘backhanding’ woman, raping her after night out in Northbridge

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Perth bikie Troy Mercanti accused of ‘backhanding’ woman, raping her aft nighttime retired successful Northbridge

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Perth bikie Troy Mercanti is accused of raping and assaulting a pistillate aft gathering her connected a nighttime retired astatine the Metro City nightclub successful Northbridge past week.

Mercanti appeared successful Perth Magistrates Court via video nexus from Hakea Prison connected Monday.

The 56-year-old appeared successful Perth Magistrates Court connected Monday via video nexus from Hakea Prison looking dishevelled and unshaven aft a play successful the cells.

He was granted bail, contempt prosecutors’ attempts to support the Mongols subordinate down bars arsenic his charges proceeded done the courts.

Mercanti’s lawyer Paul Holmes told the tribunal his lawsuit would beryllium “strenuously” contradict the offences.

Police prosecutors alleged the elder Mongols subordinate had been connected a nighttime retired with Perth businessman John Kizon and different pistillate erstwhile helium met the alleged unfortunate connected May 2.

The tribunal was told the radical near the nightclub and went backmost to Mercanti’s mother’s Karrinyup home, wherever they consumed intoxicant and cocaine.

Prosecutors alleged Mercanti past digitally raped the woman, “backhanded her” to the face, and forced the pistillate onto her knees and enactment his penis wrong her mouth.

“He enactment his flaccid penis successful her look and said, ‘Shut the f--- up and suck it’,” prosecutors told the court.

“He was looking astatine her similar helium was going to termination her, truthful retired of fearfulness she enactment his penis successful her mouth.”

The pistillate allegedly told constabulary she lone escaped due to the fact that idiosyncratic opened the doorway to the bath they were in. The unfortunate allegedly said, “please, please, assistance me”, earlier escaping to a neighbour’s location and calling for help.

In opposing bail, prosecutors pointed to Mercanti’s lengthy transgression past and beardown bikie associations, alleging helium carried “significant power with different members” that could “assist him successful influencing witnesses connected his behalf”.

The tribunal was told the unfortunate had received messages from OMCG members linked to the accused, which she took to beryllium an “implied menace to the victim’s family”.

Prosecutors besides said a 2nd pistillate had travel guardant “in different matter”, pursuing the media attraction of Mercanti’s apprehension past week.

“They are wholly abstracted charges,” the authoritative told the court.

“It’s an historical enactment battle and a connection has been taken from that. An probe has commenced.”

In defence of his client, Holmes said Mercanti had nary breach of bail connected his record, and said helium thought the police’s lawsuit was “weak”.

He told the tribunal the substance progressive “two radical giving a immense and conflicting story”.