Loved up in the lock up: Double murderer denied wedded bliss

A double life sentence meant Ramzi Aouad never got a honeymoon after getting married behind bars. But he tried to make up for it when his wife came into the jail for a contact visit.

The wife of double murderer Ramzi Aouad, Hannadee, has been banned from jails for six months after she got too amorous with her husband in one the state's most secure prisons.

The wife of a double murderer serving consecutive life sentences has been banned from visiting him in jail after prison authorities claimed the couple got too amorous during a visit.

Notorious gangland killer Ramzi Aouad and wife Hannadee were getting reacquainted in a meeting room at Goulburn’s Supermax Prison when guards claimed their public display of affection went too far.

A guard terminated the November 2 meeting and banned her for six months while Aouad was moved to a more secure section of the jail and banned from visits.

Prison authorities claim the couple ignored at least one warning about canoodling and “prolonged kissing” inside the room, which features sterile furniture bolted to the floor and bright lighting.

Double murderer Ramzi Aouad and wife Hannadee

Ms Aouad denied this and told The Saturday Telegraph “It’s heartbreaking because it’s not fair” and that her daughters were in the room.

“We were having little pecks here and there,” she said. “We’re just human, we’re the type we love to show our emotions to one another.”

She said the pair never intended to have sex.

“You absolutely can’t. Even if you tried to,” she said. “He’s in overalls and a full jumpsuit. So how?”

Aouad was wearing orange prison overalls that limit physical contact because the only entry point on the thick fabric suit is on the upper torso.

The pair were inside Goulburn’s Supermax.

A NSW Correctives spokesman said: “A Supermax inmate was observed hugging and kissing a visitor over a prolonged period of time”.

“The inmate continued physical contact with the visitor despite being directed not to do so.”

Aouad will never be released from prison after he was sentenced in 2006 to a double life term without parole for two gangland murders that took place during an eight-year war between three Western Sydney crime families.

The conflict, which resulted in 10 murder convictions, became known as the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda conflict where the families went to war over drug territory between 2001 and 2009.

It peaked in March 2009 when family leader Abdul Darwiche was executed in front of his family while driving out of a Bass Hill restaurant.

Abdul Darwiche

Abdul Darwiche where he crashed in Bass Hill after being shot.

Aouad was convicted over the October 2003 shooting murder of two men who died inside a Greenacre home where more than 100 rounds were fired into the house.

He was convicted of a third murder from the same month before successfully appealing, leading to prosecutors dropping the case.

The case involved the murder of Ahmed Fahda who was shot dead by two hooded men who fired 29 rounds at a Punchbowl petrol station in October 2003.

Aouad had been Fahda’s brother-in-law from his first failed marriage.

The jury was told Aouad shot Fahda in a pre-emptive strike because he feared being killed by his brother-in-law over the bad treatment and abuse of his then wife.

Now aged in his 40s, Aouad was 22 when he was sentenced in 2006.

Ms Aouad said the pair dated before he went to jail when she was 16 and wed in an Islamic marriage when he was behind bars in 2018.

At the time, she did not know Aouad was on trial for three murders. “I tried to call him but his phone was off,” she said. “I automatically thought he had ghosted me.”

They later reconnected through mutual friends. His convictions never worried her.

“Because I knew he would never put my life in danger,” she said.

Her daughters are from another relationship.