Melbourne woman opened an elevator door and walks into worst nightmare

The grandson of a feared Melbourne gangster has entered the high stakes killing game by savagely stabbing a man he left dying in a pool of blood.

Kloud Allen, 24, fronted the Melbourne Supreme Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of 42-year-old handyman Andrew Sullivan.

Allen stabbed Mr Sullivan to death in an elevator at a commission housing block in the inner northern suburb of Carlton on January 16 last year. 

The court heard Allen and a 15-year-old accomplice attacked Mr Sullivan with knives after an altercation broke out inside the elevator at the Drummond St building.

In a horrible twist Mr Sullivan's dying body was sent down a floor where the elevator opened up to his partner. 

Residents attempted urgent first-aid before Mr Sullivan was rushed to the Royal Melbourne hospital where he died just after midnight.

Allen, a father of two, is the grandson of the deceased Melbourne drug kingpin Dennis 'Mr Death' Allen who ran his family's drug empire with murder and violence until his death in 1987.

His family, which included accused cop-killer Victor Pierce and crime matriarch Kath Pettingill, was fictionalised in ...
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