Wolves bikie became squeamish as he watched a fellow gang member cut off a man's ears with a knife during an attack at Currumbin

Wolves bikie became squeamish as he watched a fellow gang member cut off a man's ears with a knife during an attack at Currumbin, a court was told.David Holmes, who is missing his left ear and most of his right ear after the alleged attack in November last year, told police he heard the Lone Wolf, whom he referred to in the Southport Magistrates Court yesterday at 'Dutchy', tell the alleged attacker that watching it was 'turning my guts' and then he 'was just gone'.In a video re-enactment played to the court yesterday, Mr Holmes, 38, recounted the events which he said started with at least two men kidnapping him from his Currumbin Waters home about 5am on November 3.He said a knife was held to his throat and he was forced into a waiting car and driven to bushland where he was led up a dirt track while his hands were bound behind his back.He told police he was bashed with a baseball bat and forced to get on his knees by 'Scheersy' -- alleged to be Lone Wolves bikie Aaron Drew Scheers, 24."And then he just started cutting me lobes off," he told police."He just went bang, bang with the ears and then he had another hack at this ear."He said Mr Scheers was yelling 'You robbed, you robbed' as he continued the alleged knife attack.Mr Holmes told police he repeatedly denied robbing anyone.
When asked what he was thinking during the alleged attack, he said: "I thought they were going to knock me ... kill me."Then he put a knife to me throat (and said) 'I'll slit your throat'. I said: 'Well you'll be knocking an innocent (expletive)'. Then he (Mr Scheers) said: 'I believe ya. Anyone who'll go through that much pain and agony -- I believe ya'."During the video, police asked Mr Holmes how many men were present during the alleged attack, but he said he couldn't be sure.
Four men -- Mr Scheers, Benjamin James Dehnen, 31, Ray Kenneth Brooks, 30, and James Desmond Murphy, 25 -- were charged with torture, kidnapping and grievous bodily harm with intent to disfigure over the alleged attack and faced a committal hearing yesterday.After the attack, Mr Holmes told police during the re-enactment that he was taken further into the bush and dumped away from the track where his legs were bound and tape put over his mouth.With blood gushing from his ears, Mr Holmes said he knew he had to find help or he would die. After struggling out of the restraints, Mr Holmes ripped off part of the leg of his pyjamas to try to stop the bleeding, the court was told.He fainted several times, he said, and became disoriented in the bush.
The court was told that between five and seven hours after he was forced from his home he stumbled out of the bush and found a family having a picnic."But they shunned me and I couldn't really blame them, I looked (expletive) terrible," Mr Holmes told police.He said four men driving past stopped to help him and called an ambulance.A National Parks and Wildlife officer found part of one of Mr Holmes' ears in bushes near the entrance to the National Park five days after the alleged attack.
The hearing before magistrate Catherine Pirie continues today.