Gang Hamzy family matriarch shot at home in Auburn
YONI BASHAN POLICE REPORTER
March 11, 2013 12:00AM
POLICE are bracing for an escalation in gangland violence after a matriarch of the infamous Hamzy crime family was shot four times at her front door yesterday.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the woman, an aunt to Supermax prison inmate Bassam Hamzy, was shot at point blank range in the legs as she opened the front door of her unit on Auburn Rd, Auburn, in a targeted and direct attack at 2.40pm.
Police have unofficially linked the shooting with another that occurred 20 minutes later, also in Auburn, when shots were fired at the house next door to that of convicted drug dealer Hakan Goktas, 39.
The main line of inquiry for both shootings is Goktas's co-operation with police when he was the victim of a road rage shooting last August.
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A police source said the victim of yesterday's first shooting was shot four times after opening the door of her unit, which has the letters "BFL" chalked on a wall outside, a reference to street gang Brothers For Life, of which her son is a member.
Police confirmed yesterday that Goktas's co-operation may be at the heart of the tit-for-tat violence.
His alleged attacker in the road rage incident was arrested in Queensland nine weeks later and extradited to Sydney.
The two shootings took place hours before revelations emerged in yesterday's The Sunday Telegraph that police were left shocked and angered after a senior member of the BFL gang was granted bail last week over a kneecapping at Bass Hill on February 9 this year.
Their 24-year-old victim in the case has gone into police protection after becoming a Crown witness and investigators fear the decision to grant bail may jeopardise his safety.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Arthur Katsogiannis said a review of that decision was being sought.
"All we can do is enforce the law and bring those responsible before the courts," Mr Katsogiannis told The Daily Telegraph.
"In relation to that decision, we'll be liasing with the DPP and seeking a review."
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