Bassam Hamzy threatens relative: ‘I’m gunna break your f**kin’ legs’
Bassam Hamzy had been on the run for more than six weeks when he called home. In a call to his mother Lola, he wanted to know if she had sent him his favourite underwear and socks. He also threatened to bash a relative if they stopped kickboxing.
Bassam Hamzy had been on the run for more than six weeks when he called home. If his shooting dead of teen Kris Toumazis in May was on his mind, he said very little to show it. Instead, he was more concerned about his mother sending him his favourite underwear and socks to Lebanon and whether his young relatives were continuing their kickboxing training, and losing weight.
Here is a transcript of those phone taps, which were tendered to court.
JULY 15, 1998
V1: Young relative
V2: Operator
V3: Bassam Hamzy
V4: Lola Hamzy (mother)
V5: Young relative
V1: Hello
V2: hello, telephone from Lebanon
V1: Yes, hello
V3: Hello
V1: Who is this?
V3: Where’s mum?
V1 : She’s here
V3: Let me talk to her
V4: Hello, hello
V3: Mother
V4: Yes
V3: Mother, how are you?
V4: Thank God, how are you?
V3 : I’m good, what I wanted to say, did Fred leave?
V4: Yes, he left today
V3: Did he send me things?
V4: Yes, I sent you briefs, socks and the video camera
V3: And the shorts
V4: Yes the shorts, correct. Yes.
V3: And the photos?
V4: The photos I’ll send to you with the brother-in-law of your aunty Louisa’s husband (can’t decipher) Chamma next week.
V3: Which day they coming?
V4: Next Wednesday
V3: Yes
V4: Okay
V3: Ah (stutters) did Mejid do the car?
V4: Maybe they will do it on Monday
V3: And what about the boat?
V4: The boat’s still parked here. Yes
V3: Yes
V4 : The boat is still parked here
V3: Did you (stutters) get the money from Ghassan today?
V4: No son, I didn’t see him. Why did he call you?
V3: He will come and give you the money maybe today.
V4: Yes mother. He came, he came …
V3: Okay and a thousand dollars that you collected from the Chinese man, okay?
V4: Yes
V3: And …
V4: He will give you …
V3: … Ghassan will give you twelve hundred
V 4: … mm.
V3 : Huh?
V4: That he would give them to Khalid
V3: Who?
V4 : The money of the Chinese guy he will give them to — to Nidal’s brother
V3: The Chinese’s to be given to Nidal’s brothers and he will give you one thousand two hundred. Um, um
V4: Ghassan?
V3: Yes Ghassan, Give these to Nidal to Khalid. Okay?
V4: Yes
V3: And where you collect the four hundred such as you must, give him three thousand dollars.
V4: To who?
V3: Uh?
V4: To Khalid?
V 3: To Nidal
V4: Yes, okay
V3: Yes, okay. Do you want anything?
V4: No, God be with you. Are you calling from the mobile?
V3: Tell Mejid to, tell Mejid, to call me
V4: Yeah okay. Are you calling from the mobile?
V3 : Yes
V4: Yes okay
V3: Okay bye
V4: Are you staying with your Uncle Bassam
V3: Yes
V4 : Yes okay, Do you want me to send you something?
V3: Let me talk to (young relatives) quick
V4: Yes okay
V5: Hello
V3: Yeah
V5 : Yeah
V3: Are you still goin kick-boxing?
V5: Yeah, this Saturday I got grading
V3: Every day?
V5 : Yeah. This Saturday I got grading
V3: Yeah. All right listen
V5 : What?
V3: The first one that enters the fight and wins his, I’ll give ‘em a thousand dollars
V5: He told me he wants me to train a bit harder because in February next year he’s going to put me in the ring. He said he’s going to try me out
V3: Yeah all right then
V5: All right
V3 : Whoever win their first fight …
V5: Yeah
V3: … whoever trains hard and wins their fights, I’ll give ‘em a thousands dollars
V5: All right
V3: All right?
V5: Yeah
V3: Now make sure youse go training everyday
V5: We are
V3: Yeah all right
V5: Amir wants to speak with ya
V3: Who?
V5: Amir
V3: All right. Tell him I’ll ring him up this week
V5: All right. So who do you want to speak with?
V3: (Young relative)
V1 : Hello
V3: Are you training hard you little f**k?
V1: Yes
V3 : Are you goin’ every day?
V1 : He didn’t go today ‘cause Mejid didn’t come
V3: How many days a week do you go?
V1: Nearly every day
V3: All right, listen
V1: Yeah
V3: If you train hard and you win your first fight, I’ll give you a thousand dollars
V1: All right
V3: Now youse have to train hard. If you don’t train hard then when I speak to Amir, I’m gunna ask him. If youse aren’t training hard no one’s getting nothing and youse
August 13, 1998
V2: Hamzy
V4: Young relative
V4: Hello
V2: What are you doin’ you little shit
V4: Nothing
V2: Where are ya?
V4: I’m at home
V2: Have you been goin’ kickboxing?
V4: Yeah
V2: Why did it take you so long to answer the f**kin’ phone?
V4: No because I don’t know. I got my yellow belt
V2 : Did (name withheld) get it?
V4: Yeah
V 2: And what else?
V4: Um, that’s it
V2 : Are youse losing weight?
V4: Yeah. I’ve lost four kilos now
V2: When do you think he’s gunna make youse fight?
V4: He told me he wants me to train harder to nest year the beginning of next year he said. Because he wants to …
V2: I tell you from now on you start catching the train there and you catch a train back all right …
V4: All right
V2: If Mejida — if you ring up Mejida and she’s not coming catch a train there, you catch a train back. I want you every f**kin’ day you can go there.
V4: All right
V2: Every single day. Don’t (inaudible) wait until I get you what I want to do to you
V4: All right, listen are you gunna come back?
V2: In six months
V4: All right
V3: I’ll break you legs if I don’t see youse by then, at some f**kin’ good by then, I’m gunna break your f**kin’ legs
V4: All right
V2: Are you being good at school?
V4: Yeah
V2: If you do one little thing wrong and I find out you know what I’m gunna do to youse?
V4: What?
V2: I’m gunna break your f**kin’ head
V4: All right
V2: Don’t go and be a f**kin’ hero alright?
V4: Nup
V2: That’s it, bye
V4: Bye
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