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Man extradited from Thailand over 2014 murder of Sydney father

A man has been extradited from Thailand and charged over his alleged role in the 2014 murder of a Sydney father in the city's Inner West.

Bradley Dillon, 25, was lured to his death via a text message in 2014 while trying to settle a meagre debt for his sister.

Dillon had been chasing repayment of $2000 his sister had lent to a member of the secretive Saint Michael Fight Club.

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Bradley Dillon was gunned down in Leichhardt in 2014. (Supplied)

He was stabbed at least four times and shot three times after descending stairs into an underground car park in Leichhardt.

Dillon managed to make it onto Lords Road where he collapsed and died despite the efforts of emergency services to revive him.

Diego Carbone, a former member of the fight club, was jailed in 2018 over the murder of Dillon and remains behind bars.

Police applied and were granted an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Antonio Bagnato, the cousin of Carbone, who had been remanded in prison in Thailand.

Detectives travelled to Thailand to formally extradite Bagnato who has since arrived back in Sydney at 6am on Saturday.

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Man extradited over 2014 murder of Bradley Dillon.

He was taken to Mascot Police Station where he was charged with an outstanding arrest warrant for murder.

Bagnato will appear at Parramatta Bail Court today.

Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said Bagnato's extradition to Australia followed years of behind-the-scenes work by police.

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Man extradited over 2014 murder of Bradley Dillon.

"Concurrent to various court processes, investigators have continued to work tirelessly to ensure this man faced justice for his alleged involvement in Mr Dillon's murder," Doherty said.

"Today's result could not have been achieved without the ongoing support and assistance of our international law enforcement partner agencies – particularly the Royal Thai Police and Australian Federal Police.

"Bradley was a father who was senselessly murdered, and the simple fact is that if you engage in that sort of violent behaviour, police will always track you down and hold you to account," he said.

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Long night for Splendour In the Grass campers after more rain

"In my tent, it is basically just a waterbed."

Splendour In The Grass festival goer Kadence Mathers spent the night making sure her tent wasn't going to flood after more rainfall hit the already drenched event.

The music festival is set to continue being mayhem in the mud on Saturday as organisers push ahead despite the weather chaos.

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Flooded campsite at Splendour In The Grass Saturday 23 July.

Mathers said the campsite is "grim" and she and her friends want to leave but their cars are blocked in and bogged.

"Last night it was just a steady stream of rain, and so everything is way more flooded now," she said.

"I've been using socks and stuff to try and mop up the water that is coming in."

"Unless they cancel the entire event we can't get out.

Splendour In The Grass festival goer Kadence Mathers

"Even if they do cancel the entire event the car we came in is, like the tyres are almost underwater, it's going to be bogged."

But some blue sky is peeking through at Byron Bay in northern New South Wales providing hope for festival goers that the event will go ahead today.

"It is meant to clear up, so it shouldn't be too bad," a festival goer said.

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On Friday, festival-goers donned ponchos and had to trek through fields that resembled swamps in Byron Bay, only for the first day of the event to be officially washed out.

It wasn't all bad news for day one, with some of the music acts heading to local venues in Byron Bay to perform for disappointed attendees.

Surprise performances from Baker Boy, Confidence Man and Yungblud went ahead at the Beach Hotel on Friday night.

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Music acts perform at Beach Hotel after Splendour In The Grass day one cancelled

Organisers had said their decision to cancel Friday's performances on the main stages was due to "a significant weather system" and they had "decided to err on the side of caution".

Work was being done "on repairs", organisers said, adding: "We look forward to Saturday and Sunday programming moving ahead as planned."

The already sodden event ground – where camp fields have become quagmires – is expected to get a top-up on Saturday, though it's unlikely to dampen the spirits of most festival attendees.

Splendour in the Grass festival goers in the rain and mud

Weather set to brighten but mud to remain

The Bureau of Meteorology predicts a 90 per cent chance of rain, between 4 and 6mm, around the North Byron Parklands in Yelgun, although the offshore low bringing the wet weather is moving away from the coast, easing showers over north-east NSW and south-east Queensland.

(See full list of current NSW weather warnings here)

There are also severe weather warnings in place for damaging surf, with "large and powerful surf conditions expected to be hazardous" as the low pressure system lingers offshore.

Weatherzone says "wind should ease from Saturday morning" across the region as the low moves offshore.

The large swell will stick around on Saturday, before easing from Sunday.

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A snorkeler is seen during Splendour in the Grass 2022 at North Byron Parklands on July 22

Highs of 18C are forecast for Saturday in the Byron Bay area with overnight temperatures falling to between 9C and 12C before picking back up on Sunday, when the mercury could reach 20C.

Moist onshore winds and showers are on the forecast for the rest of the NSW coast.