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.

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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.

On the run for murder and all Bassam Hamzy cared about was whether his mother had sent him his favourite underwear and socks. Picture: NSW Police

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

Hamzy threatened to break the legs of his young relatives if he found out they stopped kickboxing training. Picture: NSW Police

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