'We'll sort it out with a bullet to your head': Ex-Comanchero boss 'Lethal Les' is jailed for demanding $10,000 from a brothel client to compensate a 'mistreated' sex worker
- Leslie Grantham threatened and stalked a man he thought abused a sex worker
- Along with his friend Lyall Winmar, the pair demanded him pay over $10,000
- When they only retrieved $5k they then chased the man and stole his vehicle
A former bikie gang leader has been jailed over threatening to shoot a man unless he paid $10,000 to compensate a prostitute he allegedly had treated badly.
Leslie Jade Grantham - nicknamed 'Lethal Les' - stalked and intimidated the man in July 2017.along with his meth-addicted friend Lyall Raymond Winmar, 39.
The pair visited the man at his Gosnells home in Perth's south-east and ordered him to hand over the money otherwise the sex worker's father would return and 'sort it out with a bullet to your head'.
Leslie Jade Grantham — nicknamed 'Lethal Les' (pictured) is a former Comanchero sergeant-at-arms and was previously jailed in 2015 for his involvement in a plot to extract 'protection' money from a bar in Sydney's North Shore
Lyall Raymond Winmar, 39, (pictured) visited the man at his Grosnells home and demanded he pay $10,000 in compensation after he allegedly treated the sex worker badly
Former Comanchero sergeant-at-arms Grantham and professional boxer Winmar collected $1,500 on the first trip but telling the man it wasn't enough, they returned the next day and retrieved a further $3,000.
Still not satisfied, the duo continued to target the man by chasing him in a car and stealing his Ford utility.
Grantham was previously jailed in 2015 along with nine other Comanchero bikie members over a plot to extract 'protection' money from the owners of a karaoke bar in Sydney's North Shore.
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At the time, they demanded the karaoke bar hand over $10,000 a week.
He claimed to have been transformed in jail by converting to Christianity, but quickly returned to his old ways not long after his release when Winmar came to him and told him about the sex worker who had allegedly been treated poorly.
A court was told Grantham was the first to confront the victim over the allegations and told him the sex worker's father would 'sort it out with a bullet to your head' if he did not hand over $10,000.
Winmar was jailed for 20 months in November after pleading guilty to extortion and stealing a motor vehicle.
However, it was backdated to October 2017, when he was arrested, and was made eligible for parole.
Grantham was sentenced in December 2018 after he changed his pleas ahead of a trial and admitted to extortion and stealing a motor vehicle.
There was no evidence to suggest that either of the men financially benefited from the extortion, which didn't come to light until Grantham's sentencing.
Grantham was a former sergeant-at-arms of Sydney's Comanchero outlaw Motorcycle Club (pictured)
District Court judge John Staude told the court in December that the pair took their 'muscle and bad reputation' as an intimidation tactic and acted as a 'white knight' for the sex worker in order to terrify the man into handing over money.
He said the violent threats caused the victim severe stress fear and that the actions were 'thuggish'.
Grantham was jailed for two years and 10 months, backdated to July 2017.
He was ordered to pay the victim compensation of $2,250.
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