Newly revealed footage shows the tense build-up to the brutal ‘vigilante’ murder of a father-of-eight in Australia after over false rumours he abused girls.
Bradley Lyons’s own wife, Jana Hooper, helped self-styled ‘paedophile hunters’ corner him in their house before the gang kidnapped him and tortured him to try and extract a confession in December 2018.
A court was told Mr Lyons was beaten, scalded with hot water from a kettle, covered in Deep Heat and had a chainsaw held over his head until he wet himself.
After refusing to admit to the accusations – which were baseless – shot dead and buried in a shallow grave in a bushland.
When he was found, both his feet, several bones from his hands and a neck bone were missing – but the gang’s meth abuse made it impossible to piece together their recollections of how this came to be, according to Daily Mail Australia.
Reports suggest the rumours stemmed from Hooper and a tenant of Mr Lyons, Nick Stefani, who rented a bungalow at the rear of their house in Lakes Entrance, Victoria.
Stefani was part of a group of at least six men who started a club to target paedophiles, calling themselves the Australian Freedom Fighters Group.
Innocent dad tortured and killed by chainsaw vigilantes after wife falsely accused him of molesting her daughters
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