Omar Chaouk, son of slain gangland patriarch Macchour Chaouk, admits crimes after shooting own testicle

A DIMWITTED gangster who shot himself in the testicle refused treatment because he wanted a feed, a court has heard.

Omar Chaouk shot himself in the groin and right testicle.

A DIMWITTED gangster who shot himself in the testicle refused treatment because he wanted a feed, a court has heard.

Omar Chaouk, 25, shot himself in the groin and right testicle outside the Caroline Springs home of a mate in March last year.

His barrister Grace Morgan told the County Court her client refused to undergo an operation at the Royal Melbourne Hospital because he was hungry.

Chaouk — the son of slain crime patriarch Macchour​ Chaouk — has pleaded guilty to the firearm offence, three counts of theft and single charges of armed robbery, breaching bail, unlicensed driving and dealing with the suspected proceeds of crime.

Ms Morgan called on Judge Damian Murphy to go soft on her client because of the self-inflicted injury.

“It’s a reminder of his offending,” she said.

Ms Morgan also asked he be treated more lightly because of his low intellect, which put him among the bottom one per cent of the nation on an IQ basis.

She said Chaouk had been teased in prison because of his injury and he was incredibly embarrassed.

Judge Murphy ordered Chaouk be assessed for a community corrections order.

He has already spent 600 days behind bars.

At a plea hearing in September, prosecutor Catherine Parkes said Chaouk cried after shooting himself and asked a friend if he was going to die.

The woman friend drove him to hospital, where he told medical staff he had accidentally shot himself while playing with a pen gun.

Doctors found a five-millimetre bullet entry point near his navel, and abrasion and swelling on his right testicle.

Chaouk was discharged from hospital the next day and arrested by police.

The court heard Chaouk stole a sports car in January 2015.

Two months later he drove off in an acquaintance’s car after brandishing a .22 silver handgun and telling the owner he believed Serbian gangsters were after him.

He tried to call a mutual friend as Chaouk became increasingly agitated and yelled at the man to get out of the car.

It was a week later on March 17 that Chaouk shot himself with the same gun while reaching into his pocket outside a friend’s house in Caroline Springs.

His father, 65, was gunned down outside the family’s Brooklyn home in 2010.

His older brother, Mohamed, died after police shot the 29-year-old during raids at the family home in 2005.