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Vile 'paedo-killer' vigilante now begs for mercy after his sadistic evil torture of dad-of-eight he wrongly suspected of being a child molester (Australia)
Daily Mail ^ | July 30, 2025 | WAYNE FLOWER

Posted on 07/30/2025 5:43:29 AM PDT by lowbridge

The ruthless leader of a vigilante gang who tortured an innocent father to try to force a confession out of him for crimes he did not commit is now pleading to be set free.

Father-of-eight Bradley 'BJ' Lyons, from Lakes Entrance, Victoria, was threatened with a chainsaw and murdered after his meth addict wife falsely accused him of sexually assaulting her daughters.

In December 2023, Lyons' executioner Albert Thorn, 60, was told he would likely die in jail after he was convicted over the evil ordeal.

Supreme Court of Victoria Justice Andrew Tinney sentenced Thorn to life behind bars, with a 32-year non-parole period. 

During the initial trial, the jury heard Mr Lyons was subjected to sustained hideous torture before he died. 

Video obtained by the Daily Mail showed his wife Jana Hooper led him to his death after allowing Thorn and his mates to enter their house in Victoria's east and attack him in December 2018.   

Aided by another mate, Alec Harvey, and Thorn's drug-addled lieutenant, Nicholas Stefani, Mr Lyons had been abducted from his bedroom and taken to Thorn's property in the boot of a car.

Thorn had been the leader of a vigilante gang with a very specific hatred for paedophiles.

Such was Thorn's loathing for child abusers, he tattooed the gang's name, Australian Freedom Fighters, across his entire back and posted photographs to Facebook. 

In December 2018, Hooper told Thorn she believed Mr Lyons was the father of her 16-year-old daughter's child and had also made her 14-year-old daughter pregnant. 

The court heard it was a straight-out lie.

On Sunday, December 2, 2018, Thorn and his gang raided Mr Lyons' home in what was supposed to be an idiotic attempt to beat a confession out of him.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; vigilante

1 posted on 07/30/2025 5:43:29 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Good grief


2 posted on 07/30/2025 5:51:08 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: lowbridge

Believe all women.


3 posted on 07/30/2025 5:52:02 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: lowbridge

“”””and Thorn’s drug-addled lieutenant”””””

Real lieutenants must hate that usage.


4 posted on 07/30/2025 5:53:28 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Tennessee Nana

A story I could have lived my life without knowing.


5 posted on 07/30/2025 6:10:09 AM PDT by xp38
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To: lowbridge

OK. Now put the wife in jail for life too.


6 posted on 07/30/2025 6:22:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: lowbridge
In December 2018, Hooper told Thorn she believed Mr Lyons was the father of her 16-year-old daughter's child and had also made her 14-year-old daughter pregnant.

The court heard it was a straight-out lie.

The court heard the men had celebrated their crime, holding a party at Thorn's property in which Mr Lyons' own wife and children attended.

Did the the kids know why they were at the party?

If they didn't, mom was pretty stupid to take them. They were bound to find out at the party.

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

Granted mom was stupid to enlist these men to kill her husband. But to bring her husband's children to a celebration of his death?

Did she really think that they would keep her secret?

7 posted on 07/30/2025 6:46:24 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

What was her motivation for bearing false witness against her husband in the first place? This evil woman shouldn’t see the light of day again. She got off easy.


8 posted on 07/30/2025 6:53:19 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: xp38

I think it’s the killer who has the problem


9 posted on 07/30/2025 7:02:46 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Pontiac

A blood test would show who the fathers are

Maybe it was the killer


10 posted on 07/30/2025 7:04:53 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
OK. Now put the wife in jail for life too.

That would be justice, however, she only got 7 years.

11 posted on 07/30/2025 7:31:20 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

#believeallwomen


12 posted on 07/30/2025 8:57:39 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Why not? We believe any and all other sources because it must be true as long as it can be cited.

This is a country that has disarmed its people and put people in concentration camps because they refused the clot shot.

Its not like the media there is nearly as corrupt as ours, right?

For all we know these guys committed crimes like talking out against the governor and have now been deemed some of those dangerous white supremacist militia types like the FIBs are constantly hunting down and the trafficker to the governor or other official did get exactly what he deserved.

If there is anything that the first attack on the WTC and building 7 in the second attack taught me is that the media is most certainly on the up and up and not colluding in manipulation. Due to them I know I can believe everything we are told from the WWII Pearl Harbor hoax and the withering attacks by the the Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin right up through Waco and Oklahoma City to the Trump lead insurrection and what a swell guy Epstein was when alive.

Thank God for the incorruptible government and the unwavering veracity of a totally independent media.


13 posted on 07/30/2025 10:02:25 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: gnarledmaw
Why not? We believe any and all other sources because it must be true as long as it can be cited.

This is a country that has disarmed its people and put people in concentration camps because they refused the clot shot.

You're perfectly illustrating your point here.

Australians have not been disarmed. There are actually more firearms in private hands now than at any time in Australia's history. The idea of a supposed 'gun ban' is pure propaganda that has been spread in America. There's just enough truth in it (a significant number of guns were purchased by the government in the late 1990s to remove them from circulation - purchased, not seized - and restrictions were introduced on some firearms that hadn't existed before, but the vast majority remained legal - and remain legal.)

And, no, Australia did not put anybody in a 'concentration camp' for refusing to be vaccinated. There were some rules that meant people who refused to be vaccinated against COVID weren't allowed to work in certain jobs - and that's bad - but nobody was locked up anywhere for that. There were some other dumb things done here during COVID but making it out to be worse than it was just helps wind up making it harder for people to talk about the real problems that happened.

Again, a lot of propaganda seems to have been spread in America about Australia. Sometimes I do wonder how much of that was done by China, trying to split one of the alliances it most worries about opposing them.

14 posted on 08/01/2025 5:03:55 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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