Sex, lies, two wives and a murder: Mohammed ‘Little Crazy’ Hamzy trial

FEW people knew Yehya Amood had two wives at the time he was shot dead in 2012. But among those who did was Mohammed Hamzy, a close friend of Amood who is now on trial for his murder.

Mohammed “Little Crazy” Hamzy, is on trial for the murder of Yehya Amood.

FEW people knew Yehya Amood had two wives at the time he was shot dead on the afternoon of October 14, 2012.

But among those who did was Mohammed Hamzy, a close friend of Amood who goes by the name “Little Crazy” and is now on trial for his murder.

Hamzy is also facing charges for shooting his friend Alex Ali near the World Gym at Yagoona on October 8, 2012, six days before he allegedly shot dead Amood.

Alex Ali was shot in Yagoona on October 8, 2012.

The case has shed light on aspects of life in south western Sydney — “blood money” payments, multiple wives, and affairs with gang members’ partners are all at the centre of the proceedings.

Hamzy presented his side of the story last week, telling the Supreme Court he had nothing to do with the shooting of Ali, who remains his friend.

The shooting of Amood, however, was an accident, he told the court. Hamzy said in the immediate aftermath he reached out to Amood’s two widows with an offer of assistance.

But he denied trying to make a $100,000 “blood money” payment to his family, a claim previously aired by a police witness in court.

Asked to explain blood money payments to the jury, Hamzy said they involved a sheik or witness who could make sure “everything’s done properly”.

His approach was not as formal.

“I offered support to his two wives, his daughter. The only one supporting them was Yehya,” Hamzy said.

“They knew it was an accident.”

That the death happened unintentionally is not in dispute; it’s the circumstances leading up to it that have been tested in court.

Mohammed "Little Crazy" Hamzy is on trial for murder.

Hamzy told court he did not shoot his friend Alex Ali.

The Crown’s case is that Hamzy went to Greenacre Rd, Greenacre, that day not to harm Amood, but rather to harm another man, known as “C”, who’d ­allegedly called Hamzy’s wife a “slut” and a “gold digger”. The court has heard the shooting of Ali was motivated by the same reasons.

Some police witnesses, such as “O”, have corroborated this story and claimed that Hamzy confessed to both shootings, but Hamzy denied these allegations in the witness box. He said he wasn’t angered enough by the disparaging comments to take that sort of action.

“I laughed it off,” Hamzy said of the remarks.

“It was just talk.”

His explanation of the Amood shooting was that he’d been shooting at “C”, who was armed with a gun and waiting for him.

Hamzy told the court he’d been having a sexual relationship with “C’s” partner and that the affair had become public knowledge.

Alex Ali leaves the Supreme Court during the Hamzy’s trial.

This alleged affair has become an important point in a trial turning on the issue of intent. Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC asked Hamzy numerous times whether the story was made up or not.

Hamzy said he armed himself for protection for the meeting with “C” and only opened fire after noticing a gun in his hand. Amood died from a single shot to the heart, while “C” was hit twice in the legs.

Questioned about the events that day, “C” himself told the court he had gone to Greenacre to shoot Hamzy over the rumoured affair.