An alleged professional hit foiled by police is believed to have included live-streaming of the planned execution outside a daycare centre – with a handwritten note to be left beside his body.

Kevin Mundine, 19, Greall Tighe, 18, and Tyrone Tuiluga Rio, 26, were allegedly hired to gun down a known criminal as part of a power struggle within a South-East Asian crime syndicate operating in Australia.

The trio were stopped by police in traffic in Revesby, in Sydney’s south-west, on Tuesday afternoon during a dramatic intervention by a specialist taskforce that had been monitoring the gang.

When heavily armed officers pulled the men from their vehicle, they allegedly found a disturbing handwritten note in the back seat – believed to have been intended for the victim’s body, The Daily Telegraph reports.

The note allegedly read: ‘TFCF – The Final Crime Family.’

Tighe was reportedly wearing a GoPro camera strapped to his chest at the time of his arrest, which police believe he planned to use to live-stream the execution for others to watch.

It’s alleged the ‘kill team’ received specific instructions for the assassination plot via encrypted messaging app Threema.

‘We wanna hit the dog out front of daycare,’ one of the messages allegedly read.

‘Make sure you leave the cardboard on his body.

‘Shoot point blank at him… and smoke him.’

Police revealed on Wednesday that the intended target had links to crime and was a former gang member.  

He came ‘pretty close’ to being gunned down before police intervened.

‘We clearly stopped them from allegedly murdering someone and we clearly stopped other people, innocent bystanders, from being caught up in this intended [alleged] murder,’ Detective Superintendent Peter Faux said.

‘These people we arrested intending to carry out the alleged  murder. They do not know the victim or have a personal relationship with the victim.

‘They were people allegedly hired by a syndicate, possibly an offshore syndicate, to carry out this alleged murder on their behalf.

‘We believe it is an internal matter where there is a dispute inside the organisation.’

Detectives are also examining potential links to the alleged kidnapping and murder of mum-of-two Thi Kim Tran earlier this year.

Police allege the Vietnam-born woman was abducted from her western Sydney home in April by masked men and shot before her remains were found in a burnt-out car.

The 45-year-old woman was likely targeted over her husband’s alleged ties to a Vietnamese-linked crime network based in Victoria, detectives said.

Bankstown man The Anh Nguyen, 29, was charged with her murder in August. He is not accused of having killed Ms Tran himself but of facilitating her death.

The nature of any links between Tuesday’s arrests and the death of Ms Tran, first reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, are not clear but under investigation by police.

NSW Premier Chris Minns weighed on on Wednesday after it was revealed that both Tighe and Mundine were on bail at the time of their arrests.

The pair had previously been charged with separate, unrelated, break-and-enter charges from earlier this year. 

‘Ultimately, we do rely on judges making what we regard as sound decisions to keep the community safe when assessing bail,’ Minns said.

‘A lot of people would have seen the circumstances yesterday and said, ‘Well, they got that one wrong.”‘

Mundine and Tighe were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, possession of an unauthorised pistol, being carried in a stolen vehicle, participating in a criminal group, and breaching bail.

Rio is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder and participation in a criminal group.

All were refused bail in Bankstown Local Court on Wednesday.

Mundine will reappear in court on Thursday.

Tighe and Rio will return on December 3.