Bikie gang boss Vince Focarelli couldn't make his murdered son's funeral because he's in custody and someone wants him dead.
But Giovanni Focarelli, 22, had a big, teary send-off in Adelaide from family, friends, Finks and Comancheros, and hundreds of regulars at Friday prayers at his local mosque in West Torrens.
Focarelli, 37, is on remand after being discharged on Friday from the hospital that has been treating him since he was wounded in the fourth attempt to kill him.
Giovanni died after that suburban shooting late last month despite his father's attempt to get him to hospital.
At Al-Khalil mosque on Friday, imam Sulaiman Nureddine said Giovanni's family had been seeking solace there regularly since the shooting.
'I am very sad for the family, especially the boy himself because I knew him very well,' he said.
'He used to come to hug me, to say, I love you, imam, change us'.'
Some of the mourners glared at the media contingent and said 'get a life' as they entered the mosque past police security.
But there were no signs of violence despite fears of a bikie war that were sparked by a spate of recent shootings.
Some mourners wore black but others wore white, the muslim colour of mourning.
Giovanni's white-shrouded body was carried into the mosque on a stretcher by well-known bikie Michael Sfyris, who hugged the imam as he arrived and seven other men ahead of Friday's Jumma prayers.
The congregation was told, 'If someone kills a person, it is as if he has killed all of humanity.'
They were asked to pray for Giovanni and for Syrians and told that anyone who killed a believer was destined to go to hell.
Giovanni was buried before about 100 men in the cemetery next to the mosque after the imam asked for forgiveness for his sins.
Twenty-two white doves were released as the tearful men hugged each other before 30 white-clad women, carrying flowers, joined them at the grave.
Focarelli, the self-appointed Comanchero boss in Adelaide, lost three bids this week to get bail or at least permission to attend his oldest son's funeral.
His pleas were rejected because of fears for public safety and Focarelli's own life.
Focarelli was shot in the leg in December and was also the target of a failed bomb attack by two men linked to the Hells Angels who both died when the device exploded early.
Focarelli has refused to co-operate with police and, before his hospital arrest for bail breaches and drug trafficking last week, had spurned offers of police protection.
He was charged because police allegedly found the liquid drug butanediol in his car after the shooting.
The breaches of bail charges were for receiving phone calls from Sfyris while the latter was in jail.
Focarelli's lawyer has called them 'dummy charges' and labelled the police handling of the case as disingenuous.
