Police have been met with a ‘code of silence as they desperately try to solve a series of gangland murders in Sydney‘s southwest, with the tally rising again following the deaths of two women on Saturday.
Lametta Fadlallah, 48, was gunned down in a targeted shooting while sitting in the back of a Toyota 4WD, out the front of the Revesby home she shared with her 16-year-old son.
Lametta Fadlallah, 48, was shot dead in Sydney’s south-west on Saturday. She was involved in in criminal activity for many decades.
Her hairdresser friend, Amy Hazouri, was also killed during the attack. Ms Hazouri’s family said she was a ‘good girl’ who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time
She was shot dead alongside her hairdresser Amy Hazouri, 39, who had just finished a shift at her hair salon in Bankstown, believed to have been killed as collateral damage.
It takes the number of people killed as a result of Sydney’s gangland war to fifteen since August 2020.
NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole said in a press conference on Wednesday that police efforts to solve the murders have been hampered by a ‘code of silence’ in the community hampered by the shootings
On Wednesday, NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole said that police efforts to solve the murders had been hampered by a ‘code of silence’ permeating throughout the community distantly linked to the shootings.
‘These people are behind the scenes, their families are involved, and they’re actually going through a code of silence.’
‘Nobody is talking,’ he added.
Mr Toole explained that police resources would continue to be put towards solving the murders and ending the rampant violence in the southwest.
‘So what we’ll continue to do is throw resources at this to ensure we break these activities that we’re seeing here in the state.’
Of those alleged 15 murders, including two double slayings, police have only pressed charges over two killings.
They were arrested for their roles in the targeted murders of crime boss Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad in April this year and Sydney underworld figure Mejid Hamzy in October 2020.
Six men have been charged with various roles in the murders of the pair, including two police allege were the gunmen who shot Hamzy dead.
A forensic officer was seen in a car as it was towed from the home of a woman killed in a tragic double shooting