George Jessome

At the trial of his killers in 2009, Jessome's son, Richard, resembled his father, which caused Kellestine to be shocked in the courtroom when he first saw him as if he had seen a ghost. Kellestine then started to smirk and making threatening gestures at Richard Jessome, which led the younger Jessome to say: "I felt like I was disrespected and that he wanted to harm me. And I felt very angry and sad all at the same time". Jessome wrote a letter to his father's killers that read: "Don't play stupid. All of you were in it together".

In his 2009 book The Fat Mexican, the private detective Alex Caine alleged Jamie Flanz was driving Jessome's tow truck and had stolen a massive quantity of cocaine from the Hells Angels. In turn, Caine alleged that there was a conspiracy involving both the American leaders of both the Hells Angels and Bandidos that led to the Shedden massacre. Caine's conspiracy theory has been widely dismissed as the journalist Bruce Owen noted that Caine made "unsupported theories" in The Fat Mexican as his book was lacking in evidence.

During the trial of the Shedden massacre killers in 2009, Jane Sims, the crime correspondent of The London Free Press, stated the Bandidos Motorcycle Club sounded very much like the mindlessly macho He-Men Women Haters Club from the Our Gang short films of the 1930s. Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, agreed with her, writing the Bandidos had "grandiose rituals and overblown mythology" that were "more the stuff of fantasy and macho escapism than reality" that strongly appealed to weak, insecure men. Edwards wrote that most of the victims of the massacre such as Jessome were the type of weak men who were attracted to the Bandidos less because they were criminals and more out of a desire to appear important and powerful. Edwards wrote that Jessome was a pseudo-gangster, describing him as a man who affected a gangster "attitude" as he took to strutting around in his Bandidos bikers' vest as he believed that this made him into someone powerful, but that he rarely committed any crimes. Edwards noted that Jessome worked between 10 and 12 hours everyday to support himself, which he used as evidence that Jessome did not live on the proceeds of crime as commonly believed. Edwards stated in a 2010 interview:

George Jessome (1953 – 7 April 2006), better known as "Pony", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, known as one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006.

At the beginning of April 2006, Wayne "Wiener" Kellestine, the Toronto's sergeant-at-arms, accused one of the Toronto chapter, Jamie "Goldberg" Flanz, of being a police informer. The Bandidos national president Giovanni "Boxer" Muscedere agreed that a meeting would be held at Kellestine's farmhouse to discuss the allegations. On night of 7 April 2006, Jessome made the trip to Kellestine's farm.

Jessome was born in Newfoundland and worked as a tow truck driver in Toronto. Jessome's family did not follow him to Ontario. Jessome lived along in a trailer at his employer's yard, Superior Towing. In 2005, he joined the Bandidos motorcycle gang. Jessome was a close friend of another tow truck driver, George "Crash" Kriarakis, who recruited him into the Bandidos. In common with many of the members of the Canadian Bandidos, a self-proclaimed "motorcycle club", Jessome did not own a motorcycle nor know how to ride one. Unlike many of the other Bandidos, Jessome was not interested in organized crime. He had a terminal case of cancer and only joined the Bandidos to provide him with friends in his last days.