Bassam Hamzy offered rocket launchers, drugs to police in plea bargain

Supermax inmate Bassam Hamzy once offered to surrender five rocket launchers as part of a plea deal. Read his letter.

Notorious Supermax inmate Bassam Hamzy once penned a letter offering to surrender five rocket launchers as well as guns, grenades and thousands of ecstasy pills to police as part of a failed plea deal.

The seven-page missive has been tendered to the NSW Supreme Court by police, who are trying to have stringent court orders placed on two of Hamzy’s relatives to curtail reprisal attacks following the execution of family patriarch Mejid Hamzy on October 19.

Bassam Hamzy in Goulburn Supermax in 2017.

Bassam Hamzy after his arrest in 2017.

Dated November 3, 2009, Bassam’s letter to Director of Public Prosecutions solicitor Alex Poulos from Goulburn prison made grand offerings in the hope it would lead to a favourable plea deal for his father Khaled Hamzy, who was facing criminal charges at the time.

“Yes I have been charged with 2.38kg of meth, 35 pounds of pot & 2200 pills. But the fact of the matter is you only know what you know & are not privy to other extenuating matters,” Bassam wrote.

More than 10 rocket launchers had been stolen from the defence force and it was common knowledge in the underworld at the time.

“The sensitive matter I refer to is the retrival (sic) of 5 rocket launchers stolen from the military. I have negotiated an agreement with the person who is in possession of these weapons & and I am in a position to retrieve (sic) them.”

Hamzy, who was already a convicted murderer, even proposed a plan for police to raid the arms stash to make it look like a legitimate bust.

“My father’s role will be to collect the 10 guns & grenades & Rockets with the help of others & the house will be raided. This will abate any suspicion … I have to make it look like I lost them,” he wrote.

“I know my father has agreed to assist in the delivery of 4000 ecstasy pills & 3 guns as part of his plea deal.”

He wanted the surrender to be taken into consideration “in any plea negotiations with regard to my father’s plea settlement”.

Mejid Hamzy. Picture: Facebook

Where Mejid Hamzy stumbled after being shot.

He also wanted the favour taken into account if his “brother, cousin or friends” began negotiating a plea deal after they were all arrested as part of a drug syndicate he was running from Lithgow jail.

“I am responsible for the Crimes of many of my co-offenders,” he wrote.

The Daily Telegraph understands Hamzy never produced the rocket launchers and could not provide proof he actually knew where they were.

NSW Police are trying to prove in the Supreme Court this week that Hamzy still has enough control over his younger brother Ghassan Amoun and their cousin Ibrahem Hamze to manipulate them into retaliating over Mejid’s murder.

Following his arrest over the drug syndicate Bassam was running from Lithgow jail in 2009, Mr Amoun told police in an recorded interview: “I was his younger brother, he knew I’d do what he told me to do”.

“I just knew not to f*** around with him.

“I knew how he was, so I knew not to say no because of what I’d seen him do to people.”