The Road To War: Convicted killer Ramzi Aouad’s wife calls for his parole

The wife of convicted killer Ramzi Aouad, who is serving two life sentences for multiple murders, claims her husband should be allowed to apply for parole.

The wife of convicted killer Ramzi Aouad, who is serving two life sentences for multiple murders, claims her husband should be allowed to apply for parole.

“Ramzi does talk about it (getting out of jail) at times ... I strongly do believe that everybody should have a second chance,” Hannadee Aouad told The Road to War documentary, released today by The Daily Telegraph.

“It’s inhumane for someone to serve two life sentences without the possibility of parole and with no hard evidence. I believe he is innocent.”

You can watch The Road To War episode one ‘Til Death Do Us Part in the video player above

Senior police who worked on the case still have no doubt Ramzi Aouad is a killer, a belief proved by evidence.

Aouad was 22 in 2006 when he was sentenced for the murders of Mervat Hamka, 22, and Ziad Razzak, 24, at Greenacre three years earlier.

Hannadee Aouad, wife of Ramzi Aouad, says her husband should be allowed to apply for parole. Picture: Tim Hunter

A third life term for the murder of Ahmed Fahda was quashed and a new trial ordered but the charges were later dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Retired senior police officers Stuart Wilkins and Ken McKay who worked on the case said there had always been clear evidence Aouad and his co-accused were guilty of the murders of Ms Hamka and Razzak.

“There is no doubt they are guilty,” former detective superintendent Wilkins said.

“They have been through appeals and lost. There was ballistic evidence that also supported the evidence of witnesses involved in the shootings.”

Mrs Aouad knows there is little sympathy for a man who took part in a gangland war that terrorised Sydney’s streets in the 2000s, but she still believes her husband was mainly convicted on the evidence of one hardened criminal turned informer.

“The informant (Khaled Taleb) was part of a group known to the police who gave scenarios about what happened just so he could gain immunity,” Mrs Aouad said.

Ramzi Aouad and wife Hannadee.

Ramzi Aouad and wife Hannadee.

“The government paid for his new identity, for his family to come from overseas. That’s what taxpayers’ money went to.”

Mrs Aouad said she had no idea that her husband had been married at one time to Donna Fahda, a relative of Ahmed Fahda who he was accused of killing.

“I met him (Aouad), it was 2002. I had a friend of mine at that time that was seeing one of his friends, and she was meeting up with him and his friend after and asked me to come along,’’ Mrs Aouad said.

That friend turned out to be Aouad and they met a few times without getting too serious.

Then he seemed to drop off the radar.

“I couldn’t fault anything about him. He was quiet. He was shy. There was never any disrespect,” she said.

A year later the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda three-clan gang war hit the headlines but Mrs Aouad had no idea who was involved.

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“I chose not to watch the media. I mean, the reason is because the media always exaggerates a situation,” she said, adding that she was shocked when she heard Aouad had been arrested. But not knowing where he was being held, she got on with her life.

Aouad contact her from jail in 2017, they got back together and eventually married.

“What I do say is Ramzi is not a monster like he has been portrayed,” Mrs Aouad said.

“Did he make mistakes when he was young? Sure, what young men don’t. And he is turning his life around and is a man of faith.”

She also said the conditions he had endured in Goulburn Supermax did little to help any form of rehabilitation.

“His father passed away and you can’t even have an audiovisual link to watch your father’s burial,” Mrs Aouad said. “Then his mother died a year later. I spent hours on the phone and it finally went through that he was able to watch his mother get buried.

“He’s a strong believer in God.”

Mrs Aouad wants to bring back the “Remissions Act”, which would mean her husband could appeal the life sentences, giving him a chance of parole.

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