Colin "Caesar" Campbell

Colin Francis "Caesar" Campbell (18 July 1946 – 19 October 2021) was an Australian outlaw biker, gangster, and author noted for his role in the Milperra massacre of 1984.

From the Comancheros to the Bandidos Campbell was born in Newcastle, New South Wales into a working-class family of Scots descent. Campbell along with his brothers John, Geoff, Gregory, Mario and Philip formed an especially close family. Christine Campbell, the wife of Philip "Bull" Campbell, noted that the brothers Campbell were so close that she felt like an outsider with the brothers despite married to a Campbell. "Caesar" Campbell as the oldest of the Campbell brothers served as their leader. An amateur boxer and an illegal bare-knuckle fighter, in 1969, Campbell started the Gladiators Motorcycle Club of Sydney with his brothers, but then realised a Gladiators already existed up North so he ended his Sydney Gladiators who were not affiliated with the chapter up north. Campbell estimated he was involved in more 800 fights since the age of 14. In 1978, "Caesar" Campbell joined the Comanchero Motorcycle Club and was again followed by his brothers. In 1980, Campbell was promoted up to serve as the sergeant-at-arms.

In the early 1980s, Campbell served as the focal point of opposition to the leadership of William "Jock" Ross, a man whom Campbell had come to strongly dislike. Campbell resented the para-military training Ross had forced upon the Comancheros while Ross was jealous of Campbell's greater popularity with the younger members of the Comancheros. In July 1983, at a Comanchero meeting, a shouting match between Campbell and Ross broke out and which ended with Campbell storming out followed by 9 other Comancheros including Anthony Mark "Snodgrass" Spencer. Under pressure from Campbell who complained that the existing Comanchero clubhouse in Granville was too small, Ross was forced to move the clubhouse to Birchgrove. Campbell, with a couple of his club brothers caught Ross sleeping with the wife of Comanchero, which was a violation of Ross's own rules that he had drawn up. He was shot a third time, by quite possibly by the wife of a Comanchero.

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