Hamad ­Assaad: Why gun-for-hire with a hit list had to go

MURDERED hitman Hamad ­Assaad was behind the attempted murders of some of Sydney’s most feared criminals, including Michael Ibrahim, Walid “Wally” Ahmad and Pasquale Barbaro.

• Georges Hall shooting: Man shot dead in ‘drive-by’ attack
• Was revenge the motive for assassination of Walid Ahmad?

SLAIN hitman Hamad ­Assaad is behind the attempted murders of some of Sydney’s most feared criminals and their relatives.

In the past two years, the 29-year-old, who went by the underwood name of “H”, is believed to have shot and wounded convicted killer Michael Ibrahim and the aunt of one of Australia’s most feared criminals, Bassam Hamzy.

He is also suspected of shooting at Sydney man-about-town Pasquale Barbaro, 35, whose grandfather and cousin were both murdered in gangland hit.

Assaad’s body lies on the driveway of his Georges Hall home

Gunman Hamad Assaad, 29, was shot dead outside his Georges Hall home.

It is believed Assaad also ripped off a big Asian drug syndicate of 36kg of methamphetamine in recent weeks. The street value of the ice was about $350,000.

The ruse involved buying a taste of the gang’s drugs only to return a stash with a secret tracking device under the guise that they were “no good”.

And he was responsible for swindling a Sydney brothel owner of 20kg of ­cocaine in February.

Assaad, who was gunned down in a hail of bullets outside his Georges Hall home on Tuesday, also remains the main suspect in the brazen execution of crime kingpin Walid “Wally” Ahmad in April.

Insiders last night told The Daily Telegraph that the killers behind the Ahmad hit were angry at Assaad’s “arrogance” over the job and wanted to silence him.

They joined a long list of people who wanted him dead.

Pasquale Barbaro enters the Downing Centre in Sydney.

Convicted killer Michael Ibrahim.

Assaad is named in police intelligence reports as a suspect in the shootings, as well being implicated in large drug thefts from major drug syndicates.

The shootings all had a similar modus operandi — the shooter clad in black, face covered, with a high-powered getaway car with waiting driver to speed away. The shooter mostly jumped from the back seat, and left the scene the same way. And the car was dumped and torched hours later.

The hit goes down at Bankstown Centro on April 29, 2016.

Walid Ahmad.was shot dead outside a cafe in Bankstown.

A masked, black-clad shooter runs toward Ahmad.

Insiders claim the hitman thought the killing business had become “too easy”. So, he had stepped up his money earning by ripping off major drug syndicates. He thought he was untouchable.

Assaad lived with his mother in Georges Hall. The house was fortified with high-definition CCTV cameras. But “H” had several city apartments too.

He didn’t care that there was a $250,000 bounty on his head for the attempted murder of Ibrahim outside his luxurious Macquarie St apartment last year.

Mr Assaad’s mother is led away from the crime scene.

A large police presence was needed as emotions ran high following the fatal shooting.

And Assaad was not bothered that underworld figures believed he was linked to the attempted murder of Maha Hamze, the 45-year-old aunt of Bassam Hamzy, a Supermax inmate and founder of notorious street gang Brothers 4 Life.

Assaad was acquitted of the 2010 shooting murder of Mohammad Alahmad, who was shot while getting into his BMW outside his Granville home in 2008.