Mum caught in cross-fire as Supermax prisoner's feud spils onto street

A SCHOOLYARD brawl and a feud involving a Supermax prisoner are alleged to be the catalysts for two unsolved gangland shootings in Auburn last month.

A SCHOOLYARD brawl and a feud involving Supermax prisoner Bassam Hamzy are alleged to be the catalysts for two unsolved gangland shootings in Auburn last month.

Police have made significant inroads into the March 9 attacks, which occurred within 25 minutes of each other, and have established the identities of those suspected to be responsible and the alleged reasons behind each incident.

The Sunday Telegraph can now reveal the chain of events leading up to the attacks, which highlight the flawed logic and hair-trigger tempers of the Sydney gun-toting underworld figures believed to have been directly involved.

The story began inside the Department of Corrective Services last year when a career criminal, accused over a spate of violent crimes, was awaiting trial.

After attacking a fellow inmate, the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was moved to Goulburn's high-security Supermax prison, where Hamzy was being housed.

Police have been told the pair became involved in a financial disagreement inside prison.

This, police believe, prompted the first shooting on March 9, which saw Hamzy's aunt, Maha Hamze, 43, shot four times in the legs at the front door of her Auburn Rd unit. Mrs Hamze has nothing to do with any criminal activities and was an innocent victim.

Twenty-five minutes after the shooting of Mrs Hamze, a second shooting occurred at a home in nearby Park Rd.

The target of that drive-by shooting was Hakan Goktas, 40, a convicted drug supplier. Some members of the Goktas family are believed to be involved in a long-standing feud with some members of the Hamze family.

The career criminal whose financial disagreement with Bassam Hamzy is believed to have led to Mrs Hamze's shooting is not a member of the Goktas family or associated with them.

Detectives believe that after the shooting, Hamzy family associates turned their attention to the Goktas family, mistakenly believing they were responsible.

The rivalry between some members of the two families goes back to a schoolyard brawl at Granville Boys High School in 2011.

Tensions appeared to settle for a time until August 28 last year when Hasan Goktas, Hakan Goktas' son, was allegedly set upon by several people at a service station.

His father then accompanied him to the Hamze family home on Auburn Rd, resulting in shots being fired. Hasan was put into an induced-coma from a bullet wound to the stomach but survived.

At 2.55pm gunshots were fired at the Goktas home on Park Rd from a dark-blue Toyota Corolla, which had several people inside.

None of the bullets hit their target, instead hitting a neighbouring property. Police are still trying to recover the vehicle.

No charges have been laid.