Smith was charged with trafficking cocaine and cannabis valued at about $500,000.

After one of his team, Peter James Cross, gave evidence against him, Smith was sentenced in the County Court to a maximum of 11 years' jail.

Ashford was sentenced to 10 years with a minimum of eight, Schievella got eight years with a minimum of six.

Schievella's brother Mike "Lucky" Schievella, 44, and partner, Heather McDonald, 36, were murdered in their St Andrews home in 1990.

The pair, who were known drug dealers, were bound and their throats slashed. The murders have never been solved.

On June 25, 2005, Thomas Schievella's nephew, Brendan Schievella was drinking at an Ivanhoe Hotel when a group of men, some wearing Hells Angels colours, walked in and abducted him.

Three star Carlton footballers, Lance Whitnall (right), Nick Stevens and Heath Scotland, were drinking with Schievella in the upstairs Ruebar when the incident happened.

It is believed the players said they were associates of the victim but did not consider him a close friend.

They said they had no idea why he was attacked and abducted. Witnesses said the man was beaten and then forced into a car and driven away.

The badly beaten victim was taken to the Austin Hospital the next day.

Doctors had to amputate one of his toes, which was mangled - probably with a set of bolt cutters.

Brendan Schievella is known to have links with several members of the underworld.

On August 16, 2007, a court heard two bikies and their mate kidnapped a man and dangled him off a bridge in Ivanhoe during a scary five-hour campaign.

Raymond Joseph Hamment, Andrew Hinton and Paul Petersen and their victim were thrown out of the Rue Bar at the Ivanhoe Hotel after a bloody confrontation on June 25, 2005.

The County Court was told they dumped Brendan Schievella in a Brunswick street five hours after he was snatched about midnight.

Hamment, 39, of Greensborough, Petersen, 31, of Bundoora, and Hinton, 37, of Diamond Creek, have not revealed what happened to Mr Schievella after he was bundled into a white ute.

He was found in a street in Brunswick and taken to the Alfred hospital.

Crown prosecutor David Ross, QC, said the victim had no bikie links, and the trio's motive was a mystery to police.

Mr Ross said they assaulted Mr Schievella in the bar, and he tried to escape as the bashing continued in the street.

The court was told Mr Schievella was held and hung 8m above the ground from a walkway on Upper Heidelberg Rd.

Hinton was not a Hells Angels member but was associated with the club through his friendship with Hamment, barrister John Saunders said.

Hamment, Petersen, and Hinton -- who has been in custody for much of the past three years -- pleaded guilty to four charges each of conduct endangering life, intentionally causing serious injury, false imprisonment, and rioting.

Justice Geoffrey Chettle said the bar's patrons would have been terrified by the three men.

"No doubt they desired to scare the living daylights out of him," Justice Chettle said.

Damien Sheales, for Petersen, said his client had not told him if he was still a Hells Angels member.

"The organisation is not on trial," he said.

Mr Sheales said Petersen had a stable work and family life, and suburban aspirations.

Defence lawyer Paul Marin said there was no evidence Hamment assaulted Mr Schievella in the bar. He said Hamment was told by hotel security to cover his Hells Angels vest when he entered.

On August 21, 2007, Hamment, Hinton and Petersen were sentenced to jail.

County Court Judge Geoffrey Chettle described the assault on Brendan Schiavella as severe and said the three men had terrified their victim and alarmed bar patrons.

"You arrogantly and brazenly committed these crimes and were prepared to challenge anyone, including security, who confronted you," Judge Chettle said.

All three men pleaded guilty to counts of riot, intentionally causing injury, reckless conduct endangering life and false imprisonment.

Hamment was sentenced to 30 months' jail with a minimum of 20 months, as was Petersen.

Hinton, will serve at least 16 months in jail.

On May 10, 2008, Age reporter John Silvester wrote that with Tony Mokbel's "Big Fat Greek Adventure coming to a close the alleged organised crime boss faced a clear choice — freedom or family".

He will have to give information on the murders of police informer Terrence Hodson and his wife Christine for authorities to even consider plea discussions. Detectives believe the double murder was set up by a corrupt former member of the drug squad.

Mokbel would have to give up the former police behind the Hodson murders to have a chance of receiving a sentence of less than 30 years. The deal will be simple — rat or rot.

A special taskforce, code-named Petra, is investigating the double murder. Convicted gangland killer Carl Williams has claimed a former policeman told him that Hodson was "a problem" and had to go. Williams claimed the former detective later said the matter had been "sorted". It was just before the double murder.

Taskforce investigators have secretly visited David Miechel in jail but he refused to co-operate with any investigation.

While Mokbel might have no issue in sinking bent cops to save himself there is a sticking point. He would have to name the actual killer and the star suspect is a man who is virtually related to him through marriage.

The suspect (later reavealed to be Rodney Earl Collins is a cold-blooded killer implicated in the murders of Mike Schievella and Heather McDonald.

Police said they were bound and tied and their throats slashed. One theory was they were killed because they were suspected of talking to police.

The suspect has been listed as a person of interest in three murders in the 1980s including standover man Brian Kane, who was shot in the Quarry Hotel in Brunswick in 1982.

The man has also been named as a suspect in the murder of Carlton identity Mario Condello.

The former armed robber and gunman once formed a hatred against a policeman who had arrested him. His cell was covered with hanged stick-figures with the detective's name scrawled under each one.