Brothers 4 Life member Mohammed Hamzy jailed for at least 8.5 years over shooting of two men

A MEMBER of the Brothers 4 Life gang has been jailed for the shooting of two men, one of whom was accused of calling his wife a “slut” and a “gold digger”.

Mohammed "Little Crazy" Hamzy was sentenced over the shooting of two men.

• Sex, lies, two wives and shootings: The Little Crazy trial

A MEMBER of the now-disbanded violent gang Brothers 4 Life has been jailed for at least eight and a half years for the shooting of two men, one of whom was accused of calling his wife a “slut” and a “gold digger”.

Mohammed “Little Crazy” Hamzy, 31, was sentenced in the Supreme Court yesterday for the manslaughter of Yeyha Amood and the grievous bodily harm of another man known only as “Mr C” when he fired three bullets into a Mercedes parked outside a townhouse complex in Greenacre on October 14, 2012.

Supreme Court Justice Robert Allan Hulme said the shooting in a residential street on a Sunday afternoon was “utterly reckless and inherently dangerous”, and sentenced him to 11 years and six months with a non-parole period of eight years and six months.

Hamzy faced trial earlier this year over the October 14 shooting and another shooting six days earlier when he fired at his friend Alex Ali near a gym in Yagoona, wounding him.

At the trial he was acquitted of shooting Ali with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and found not guilty of murdering Amood but guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

The Crown alleged Hamzy committed the shootings after hearing that Ali and Mr C had been saying his wife as a “slut” and a “gold digger”.

Justice Hulme found Mohammed "Little Crazy" Hamzy’s statement “concerning”.

That evidence was provided by a witness called Mr O but Justice Hulme said it appeared there was an “implicit rejection” of his testimony by the jury.

Hamzy gave evidence at his trial that he fired at Mr C and Amood in self-defence, telling the court he saw Mr C pointing a gun at him.

“[H]e was pointing it towards me, a hundred per cent. I wouldn’t have — I’m pretty sure anyone in my situation, at that time I really thought my life’s in danger, so I let off the shots. And I think anyone in my situation that had that state of mind would do the same thing,” he said.

Justice Hulme said that statement was concerning.

“The fact is that law-abiding people would never be in his ‘situation’. That the offender was in that ‘situation’ and that he felt it necessary to ‘let off the shots’ — 11 of them — was largely of his own making.

“The offender’s self-righteous justification for his actions demonstrates a complete lack of insight into the gravity and criminality of his conduct.”

The court had heard Hamzy was aiming at Mr C but accidentally shot Mr Amood as well, killing him.

Hamzy told the court he had offered to provide financial assistance to Amood’s two wives after his death.

Taking into account time already spent in custody Hamzy will be eligible for parole on February 25, 2023.

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