A former soldier has told a packed court that he was allegedly hired by a Perth bikie to murder a rival underworld heavyweight, describing in glaring detail how he stalked the former Rebels boss for weeks before shooting him from “exactly 365 metres” away at Kwinana Motorplex in 2020.

The 39-year-old, whose identity has been suppressed since his arrest in 2021, is the prosecution’s star witness in the Supreme Court trial of David Pye.

Pye is not only accused of ordering the hit on Rebels bikie Nick Martin, but also of trying to contract the same man to murder an ex-girlfriend and Comanchero Ray Cilli, who was in exile in Thailand.

He denies the accusations and, through his legal counsel, has accused the former soldier of being a liar, for whom “dishonesty courses through [his] veins”.

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