Execution-style hits of Mannella brothers unlikely to be solved
THE KILLERS of two brothers murdered in execution-style hits early in Melbourne’s underworld war are unlikely to ever be brought to justice, police have conceded.
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THE KILLERS of two brothers murdered in execution-style hits early in Melbourne’s underworld war are unlikely to ever be brought to justice, police have conceded.
Vincenzo Mannella was shot dead outside his Fitzroy North home on January 9, 1999, shortly after returning home from business meeting with men from Shepparton.
His brother Gerardo Mannella was murdered the following October after being chased along a Fitzroy North street by two men who shot him in the legs and then executed him with several shots to the head.
State Coroner Sara Hinchey was told this morning that police believe Vincenzo Manella was a member of N’drangheta, the so-called “honoured society” organised crime group founded in Calabria.
“At this stage the inquest can go no further,” Ms Hinchey this morning told the Mannellas’ relatives.
“If there was any other information that was to come to light, then we could reopen the matter.”
The court heard that Gerardo Mannella, a crane driver, and his wife were both having affairs at the time of his execution and that he had become obsessed with finding his brother’s killers.
Police hold confidential information on both murders which will not be made public.
Nobody has ever been charged in relation to either murder
The investigation in to both murders is expected to be closed when Ms Hinchey formally delivers her findings.