Filming for a 10-part drama inspired by famed underworld figure John Ibrahim’s autobiography,Last King of the Cross was interrupted this week by the funeral of the latest victim of Sydney’s gangland war.
Warring families and control of the lucrative drug trade are reasons behind the 13 fatal shootings in two years in south-west Sydney.
A bikie associate who was shot in the leg in December has been targeted in a second shooting at his Leppington home.
NSW Police have launched a taskforce that will combine investigations into three recent underworld killings into one.
Taskforce Erebus was formed after Rami Iskander was killed in a gangland shooting in Belmore on Saturday,two weeks after his uncle,Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad,was killed.
Gunned-down Comanchero associate Omar Zahed has been laid to rest without the presence of his brothers Tarek and Abdul.
The lawyer for a Comancheros heavyweight targeted in a gangland shooting that killed his brother says Tarek Zahed first learnt of a bounty on his head in a newspaper article,with police now probing a “long line of suspects”.
A junior rugby league competition has told its members that games would be abandoned “where intelligence suggests everyone’s safety is compromised”.
Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad was farewelled at Lakemba Mosque on Saturday,days after he was slain outside a friend’s Greenacre home.
Police told Ahmad and his brother as recently as last week there was a price on their heads and they should lie low. But Brownie was gunned down in Greenacre on Wednesday.
Detectives who warned slain gangster Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad that he was a marked man in the days before his brutal execution on Wednesday night also warned his brother Youssef of a price on his head.