A Bandidos biker charged in the execution-style slaughter of eight others near London was seen by police as a dangerous "soldier of fortune," federal parole records show.
But Wayne Kellestine, 56, told his prison keepers that he had been a gun collector since the age of 9 and that his cache of stolen, prohibited and semi-automatic weapons had nothing to do with crime.
The National Parole Board records also show that Kellestine blamed police for his "circumstances" and saw himself and his family as victims.
At one hearing, records show, Kellestine told parole board members his "only interest" was in "the huge party to be thrown" when his sentence was over.
Documents from more than a dozen of Kellestine's parole hearings between 1994 and 2003 -- released to the Toronto Sun yesterday -- show the accused killer had amassed a long list of serious criminal convictions.
Kellestine, 56, is one of five people charged with first-degree murder in the gunshot slayings of eight men, whose bodies were found April 8, 20 km from Kellestine's Iona Station farm.
DATES BACK TO 1967
Full-patch Bandidos members George (Gus) Kriarakis, 28, John Muscedere, 48, Luis Manny Raposo, 41, Frank Salerno, 43, Paul Sinopoli, 30, and prospect members George Jesso, 52, Jamie Flanz, 37, and Mike Trotta, 31, were found dead in four vehicles near the hamlet of Shedden.
Eric Niessen, 45, Frank Mather, 32, and Brett Gardiner, 21, and Kerry Morris, 46, are also charged with first-degree murder.
Kellestine's parole records -- with large passages blacked out on the grounds of either the safety of the offender or any person, or the protection of sources of information -- reveal a criminal record that dates back to 1967.
Kellestine amassed convictions for three counts of assault causing bodily harm, three for assault, three for possessing unregistered weapons and more than a dozen counts for various weapons, property and breach and escape charges.
As revealed last week in the Sun, Kellestine was named as the shooter in a 1982 trial for the murder of Joe DeFilippo, 37, and the wounding of his father-in-law Vito Fortunato, 54, in 1978.
No charges were laid due to a lack of evidence.
Gary Hathaway, who testified Kellestine shot the two men, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Parole records also noted that a charge of attempted murder was withdrawn against Kellestine in 1992 because of a lack of evidence. The victim, the records say, even signed an affidavit saying that Kellestine had not shot him.
FEDERAL PRISON
But Kellestine did two separate federal prison sentences.
In 1994, he was sentenced to six years in prison after he sold cocaine, pills and a handgun to an undercover cop.
When police nabbed him, they found him sleeping on a couch with a loaded handgun within reach. Other weapons and ammo were also found in the home.
Kellestine is a lifetime criminal and longtime outlaw biker who headed the local Annihilators and then a Loners club before he joined the Bandidos five or six years ago.
In one violent encounter, Kellestine punched a bus driver. In another, he beat a man over a cash dispute.
And in another he punched a hotel doorman in the nose.
Three separate statutory releases -- given at the two-thirds mark of his sentence -- were revoked due to his associating with "known and active criminals" and failing drug tests.
In the summer of 2002 he was sentenced to two years in prison on various weapons-related offences.
And in 2003 London-area police expressed opposition to his parole release because of his ties with "organized crime."
He was free of all parole restrictions in the summer of 2004.
