Mohammed Haddara jailed for mortgage broker extortion with threats to inflict injury

A Melbourne mechanic who name-dropped a crime family during an extortion warned his victim the “next one will be a bullet”.

An unhinged menace name-dropped a Melbourne crime family during a frightening extortion plot where he threatened to kill his victim and harm her family.

Mohammed Haddara, 33, was sentenced in the County Court this month to a minimum nine-month jail term after pleading guilty to extortion with threats to inflict injury.

Haddara menaced a mortgage broker mediator after a Point Cook property deal soured in late-2018.

The court heard Haddara, who had transferred a deposit for the property, threatened his female victim between December 5 and December 10, 2018.

“I want every f**kn’ dollar back …,” Haddara said.

Haddara sent the victim more menacing messages which included her son’s phone number.

“I’ll get my money from your son … b***h,” Haddara wrote.

“Wee pee am coming for u and your family … Just wait … Your gonna pay b***h … U f**ked with wrong family HADDARA GOOGLE IT.”

Haddara sent a message that included names of his victim’s family.

“So am coming for … u b***h,” Haddara said.

Haddara fired another text early the next day.

“50k that I lost cause of u If I don’t get this buy tomorrow U will see wats gonna happen and that’s last txt,” the brute said.

The victim, who immediately reported Haddara to police, was at Oakleigh in her car when she answered a phone call from an “unknown man” on December 10.

She hung up and heard a man shout her name.

The “frightened” victim drove off “quickly” when she saw Haddara standing near her car with his phone to his ear.

Haddara followed his victim to a side street where he accelerated his 4WD at her driver’s side door.

The victim managed to move her car but Haddara struck the rear passenger door.

Haddara followed his victim until she pulled up at Oakleigh police station.

A female later rang the victim while she was still with police.

“How you doing?,” the female asked.

“How did you like the shake up today? You better be prepared, there’s more coming your way.”

Haddara then called his victim several times.

“I want my 50 grand you b***h you ripped me off,” he said.

“The next one will be a bullet … today was a warning … you will give me half the money tomorrow, that’s 25 grand by eight o’clock, and the rest by the end of the week …

“I’ll get you, then your son and your daughter, I’ll get them all …

“You’ll lose half your leg or half your arm … so you will pay for it and you can pay.

“I will get you, I will kill you, you f**king b***h, I’ll get you.”

Police recorded these phone calls, the court was told.

Haddara, who was arrested the next day, admitted demanding $50,000 from his victim.

However, Haddara denied threatening to kill his victim and claimed to be at Crown Casino at the time of the Oakleigh incident.

The victim told the court she felt “stressed all day” and in a “constant state of worry”.

“There is a threat out there,” she said.

“I live with the thought that he might do something to me or my children.”

The court heard Haddara was raised in Melbourne’s west by his brothers after his parents died when he was young.

Haddara, a married father of three, completed a mechanic apprenticeship and now runs a Hopper’s Crossing auto service business.

Judge Fiona Todd said Haddara’s “aggressive and calculated” offending had the “effect of terrifying (the victim)”.

”This was aggressive, persistent and entitled behaviour undertaken by you on the mistaken understanding that you had been defrauded the amount of the deposit and what you had paid in brokerage and accounting fees.

“You decided you had been mistreated in this way, and instead of trying to find out more or to enforce your legal rights, you went about contacting (the victim) in a calculated and menacing way.”

Haddara was jailed for a maximum 15 months.

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