In his own words: How an ex-soldier fell into WA’s seedy underworld and killed a bikie boss

“He said, ‘I’m a Commo’ ... I thought he was telling me he was a communist.”

This was one of the early interactions between a former soldier-turned-sniper and a Comancheros bikie boss who, together, would allegedly go on to carry out the underworld assassination of former Rebels boss Nick Martin at the Kwinana Motorplex in 2020.

A court sketch of bikie David Pye on the first day of his trial in the WA Supreme Court. Credit: Anne Barnetson

Five years later, on Thursday morning in the WA Supreme Court, the sniper and David Pye – the accused mastermind of the killing – came face-to-face with each other.

It was the second day of Pye’s murder trial, and, having pleaded guilty to firing the fatal shot, the sniper was now the prosecution’s star witness.

The highly anticipated trial has b