How murdered gangster mum Lametta Fadlallah spent her last day alive

Murdered gangster mum Lametta Fadlallah spent her last day alive at a Lebanese restaurant “doing odd jobs” ahead of a party there later that night.

Murdered gangster mother Lametta Fadlallah spent her last day alive at a Lebanese restaurant doing odd jobs ahead of a party there later that night, where she had invited friends to join her for a night of dinner and dancing.

Chilling details have emerged of how a “happy and bubbly” Ms Fadlallah was seen at Massaya Restaurant in Strathfield on Saturday morning for several hours, looking over final details for that night’s event.

Ms Fadlallah was not an owner or involved in the restaurant, but simply helping out the sons of her partner Adel Dayoub.

From the restaurant the mother-of-two then headed home to Panania where she met her friend and hairdresser Amy Hazouri, 39, who styled her hair for the event, before the two women got into a car to head back to the restaurant.

But as they got into the car with a 16-year-old female TikTok influencer, who Ms Fadlallah had asked to come along to promote the venue, and her 20-year-old boyfriend, a gunman opened fire and shot the two older women dead.

Lametta Fadlallah pictured in happier times with a friend at the Massaya Lebanese Restaurant in Strathfield. Picture: Facebook

Mr Dayoub’s son Taleb told The Daily Telegraph there was no inclination by Ms Fadlallah’s behaviour that she had any idea she was in danger.

“We’re hearing everything for the first time. She showed zero paranoia, (there was) zero indication she knew her safety was at risk,” he said.

Ms Fadlallah was close to the owners of the restaurant and had been there earlier that day discussing plans for the evening. Picture: Facebook

“Someone that has the potential of that happening wouldn’t be living like that, going out regularly, going into the city.

“She’d come around and help (at the restaurant), it felt like she was part of the family … but she was not an owner, she had nothing to do with it.

“On the day (she died) we were together at the restaurant in the morning.

“Our last conversation was just about bookings … then she’d gone to get her hair done and get dressed, and come back for the party. ”

Ms Fadlallah features prominently in photos from the Sydney restaurant where she was a regular guest. Picture: Facebook

Ms Fadlallah had booked several tables for the night which was due to be filled with Lebanese singers, drummers and dancing.

She also told the owners she was bringing a teenage social media influencer, who was “coming to make social posts and promote the restaurant”.

Photos from the Massaya restaurant’s Facebook page indicate she was a regular there with her boyfriend Mr Dayoub, who has been left very “shocked” and “confused” by her targeted assassination.

“He met her about 12 months ago, but they only started dating on and off a few months,” Taleb Dayoub said.

“When she came into his life he was very happy. He’s very stressed (now), there’s a lot of pressure with the police interviews and people coming and going.”

CCTV from Ms Fadlallah’s home is believed to have captured the entire execution of her and Ms Hazouri, according to sources.

Amy Hazouri, 39, was shot as she sat with Ms Fadlallah in a car.

Lametta Fadlallah (right) with an unknown woman.

Other footage from the street revealed the gunman tapped four times on the car window before up to 15 bullets were fired into the vehicle.

Ms Fadlallah’s family said they believed her killers wanted her to know that her life was about to come to an end, The Australian reports.

“They made sure she saw the gun before she died,” Ms Fadlallah’s mother, Nadia, said through tears on Monday.

“Only God and her knows who it is; that secret goes with her,” they said.

The new details about the double execution came as Ms Hazouri’s family said she was a “beautiful” sister and daughter who had been sending money to her family in Lebanon.

Police said Ms Fadlallah was the intended target and Ms Hazouri just a tragic case of murder in the line of fire.

The killer, or killers, lay in wait, and as the pair got into the rear of the car outside Ms Fadlallah’s home in Panania they fired more than a dozen shots at them, investigators believe.

Police outside Ms Fadlallah’s rental townhouse in Panania where she was shot. Picture: Damian Shaw

The heartbroken family of Ms Hazouri, 39, described how she had set up a life in Australia in recent years, but continued to support her relatives and sick mother back in her homeland.

“Amy was the sole provider for our family in Lebanon that is currently struggling with the economic crisis in Lebanon,” Ms Hazouri’s sister wrote online.

“Our mother is not well and cannot travel to Australia to see her daughter.”

Ms Hazouri’s friends in Australia and colleagues at the Bankstown hairdresser where she worked led the tributes to her, with the salon set to remain closed for a number of days.

TikTok videos posted by Ms Hazouri showed off not only her hairdressing ability, but also the lighter side of the life she had created in Australia.

In one clip she dances to a tune on a night out with friends, and in another she blows a kiss to a mirror as she snaps a selfie.

The killings of Ms Hazouri and Ms Fadlallah took the death toll in Sydney’s current underworld war to 16 in the past two years – an average of one killing every six weeks.

Witnesses to Saturday’s attack described how a teenage girl sat in the gutter wailing as emergency crews desperately tried to save Ms Fadlallah’s life.

Revesby shooting victim, Lametta Fadlallah. Picture: Facebook

Revesby shooting victim, Lametta Fadlallah. Picture: Facebook

One resident – processing the horror she witnessed at Revesby when the car, which was driven from Panania after the shots were fired, stopped outside her house with the two dying women inside – said the sound of a young girl’s “guttural” screaming was something she would never forget. Ms Hazouri and Lametta Fadlallah were shot dead about 8.50pm on Saturday night.

“I can’t even describe the noise … It was this deep groaning, wailing. It was just awful,” she said.

The group of four, including the 20-year-old male driver and his 16-year-old girlfriend, were all known to each other.

“Ever since she came back from a summer holiday in Lebanon recently she seemed worried about something,” a source said.

“But she didn’t tell anyone what was up.”

Speculation in the underworld since the shooting has ranged from the fact Ms Fadlallah had been involved in a “drug rip” to the fact she may have known details about recent murders.

A number of sources said Ms Fadlallah, who was mixing with known criminals at the time of her death, had been rattled in recent weeks.