Hopes of a $95,000 job driving wedding cars around Sydney have been dashed for a man accused of shooting a gang member in the face as revenge for a jail assault.
Luke John Sparos is under strict bail conditions awaiting trial for the alleged shooting of Samer Marcus, a member of the Assyrian street gang DLASTHR or The Last Hour who was shot on the night of November 6, 2020.
The Crown argues the shooting was a revenge attack after Marcus allegedly assaulted Sparos with a makeshift weapon while the pair were in jail.
Last week, the 42-year-old attempted to vary his bail conditions by switching addresses, altering his nightly curfew and getting rid of a requirement for electronic monitoring.
On Monday, NSW Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Chen declined to change the strict bail conditions, noting they had been imposed after Sparos was seen dining and socialising with individuals of "serious criminal backgrounds".
"That is, (Sparos) met with the very type of persons that persuaded (the court) to further restrict (his) bail conditions," he wrote.
"Whilst I accept ... that this was not a breach of the bail conditions, it emphasises the currency of the bail concerns and the risks that remain, in my view."
The accused shooter also wanted to work at Unique Wedding Cars where he had been offered a job.
However, while he would have been working mostly at Unique's Fairfield East headquarters, any risks of him being in the community would increase if he was allowed to move vehicles around Sydney in an "unrestricted and unsupervised manner," Justice Chen said.
Other submissions that the strict bail interfered with Sparos' ability to be a parent or spend time with his 71-year-old father were also rejected as reasons for loosening the conditions.
Sparos was an associate of gang member Alen Moradian, who was executed in a Bondi Junction car park on June 27.
Sparos and Moradian were convicted of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug in 2011, with Sparos being released on parole on June 10, 2020.
Crown prosecutors claimed that any change to Sparos' bail conditions would allow him to plan and execute a revenge attack for the death of Moradian, noting that this type of retribution was what he was presently accused of.
Sparos faces one charge of shooting with intent to murder and a separate charge of perverting the course of justice after allegedly smashing his phone at Surry Hills police station after his arrest.
His trial is not expected to begin until mid-2024.
