Melbourne underworld figure Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim shot dead in Preston in a brazen gangland execution in broad daylight

A notorious kickboxer and bikie has been executed in a brazen daylight shooting, after having survived several previous attempts on his life. 

Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim was gunned down in a car park outside the Quest Hotel on High Street in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston about 10am on Tuesday. 

The former bikie-turned-boxer has been the target of three murder contracts, a prison bashing, three assaults, a dozen fire bombings and seven shootings.

In one attempted hit he was shot eight times and survived, and in another he escaped a barrage of bullets. 

The 34-year-old former Mongol bikie had been living in hiding since two shootings at his former family home in Thomastown last year. 

He had once been the partner of former Married at First Sight star Jessika Power. The couple enjoyed a short-lived romance two years before the incident. 

Abdulrahim’s sister Ektimal took to social media just hours after his death with a message for his killer.

‘’Whoever shot my brother…