Mick Hawi murder: Sydney bikie Ahmad Doudar sentenced to three years jail
A Lone Wolf bikie who helped in the murder of former bikie boss Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi outside a Sydney gym in 2018 has been sentenced. Find out when he will walk free from jail.
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A Sydney bikie who helped in the murder of former bikie boss Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi could walk free from jail as early as next year.
Lone Wolf bikie Ahmad ‘Adam’ Doudar confessed to his role in the 37-year-old father of two’s daylight execution outside a Rockdale gym in 2018.
Doudar was sentenced to a maximum four-and-a-half years in jail with a non-parole period of three years and four months for being an accessory after the fact to murder on Thursday.
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Justice Robert Hulme said the 40-year-old assisted a “vicious and cold-blooded” murderer dispose of a getaway car to help him “evade justice.”
“The murder itself was horrifying. It was a dangerous and violent public execution. Mr Doudar knew this,” he told the NSW Supreme Court.
One week ago a jury found Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu and 32-year-old panel beater Jamal Eljaidi not guilty of Hawi’s February 2018 assassination.
Doudar was not called to give evidence during the trial, and the Crown relied on DNA evidence which it claimed linked Nazlioglu and Eljaidi to the second getaway car in its circumstantial case.
This was rejected by the jurors, but Justice Hulme said Doudar shared Nazlioglu and Eljaidi’s “arrogant and immoral belief” that they were entitled to extinguish the life of another person.
“He knew that his friend Yusuf Nazlioglu was the brazen and brutal executioner,” the judge said.
“The driver of the vehicle at the time was Jamal Eljaidi,” Doudar’s agreed facts state.
Hawi’s widow Carolina Gonzalez told Doudar’s sentence hearing: “My sons are broken.”
“Their life is so empty now because of a bunch of cowards who decided to play god,” she said tearfully last week.
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Doudar was originally accused of being the mastermind behind the infamous hit outside Rockdale Fitness First and charged with murder.
But on the day his trial was due to start in July Doudar pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to murder.
“There will come a day, Ahmad, when you will stand before the ultimate judge and you will not be able to make a deal or plead to save yourself,” Ms Gonzalez said in her victim impact statement.
“Your punishment will be eternal and divine.”
Justice Hulme gave Doudar a 10 per cent sentence discount for his guilty plea, but added that having shown no remorse “there can be little confidence that he will not reoffend.”
Doudar’s barrister Grant Brady SC argued he’d helped Nazlioglu out of a “misguided sense of loyalty.”
“I do not accept this submission,” Justice Hulme said.
The court heard Doudar, who has a significant criminal history, has been disciplined numerous times for violent incidents behind bars including an assault conviction.
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The father suffered a “life threatening event” at Cessnock prison which sparked a diabetes diagnosis in March, the court heard.
Doudar’s wife of six years also lost her beauty salon job following his August 2018 arrest and remains on welfare while she cares for their three-year-old son, the court heard.
“I do not think it can be taken into account at all,” Justice Hulme said.
With time already served, Doudar will be eligible for parole in December 2021.
Agreed facts show two days after the shooting, Nazlioglu, Doudar and Moustafa Salami loaded the second getaway car onto a white tow truck from a Bexley safe house.
The home was being rented by Doudar’s brother.
Salami then drove the truck and left the silver Toyota Aurion – which was last registered to his former girlfriend’s mother – outside an associate’s smash repair shop in Bexley, agreed facts state.
But on July 10 prosecutors withdrew his accessory after the fact to murder charge.
Court documents show Nazlioglu had been staying on the couch of Doudar’s luxury rented Circular Quay apartment in February, and the pair used five hire cars together between then and their arrest in August 2018.