Hitman Ange Goussis secures legal win in bid to overturn conviction

The jailed killer who gunned down Lewis Moran during Melbourne’s gangland wars has won a key victory in his bid to overturn the conviction.

GANGLAND killer Ange Goussis has had a significant victory in a bid to overturn his conviction for murdering crime patriarch Lewis Moran.

The prison lifer and former boxer landed a blow in the Supreme Court this week when he won the right to full exposure of documents previously withheld by Victoria Police.

Justice David Beach ruled the force must release the documents as Goussis seeks to appeal the guilty finding over the death of Moran, who was executed at the Brunswick Club in March, 2004, in an ambush which also wounded his mate Bert Wrout.

Goussis was implicated in the killing by a notorious underworld figure, known for legal reasons only as Jack Price.

Hitman Ange Goussis is trying to overturn his conviction for killing Lewis Moran.

He was also convicted of the 2004 murder of Lewis Caine, a case in which Price also gave evidence.

Police had opposed the Goussis application on the grounds of public interest immunity.

The material which must now be unredacted includes:

TRANSCRIPTS of conversations between Price and police in 2004, 2006 and 2007.

DRAFT statements made by Price between 2004 and 2014 relating to the murders of Moran, Caine and Shane Chartres-Abbott, a self-proclaimed vampire and gigolo shot dead at Reservoir in 2003.

DOCUMENTS referring to any benefits and inducements offered to Price and others by state and federal bodies, including Victoria Police and the Australian Taxation Office.

ALL documents about conversations involving Victoria Police and Wrout relating to Goussis and/or the Chartres-Abbott, Moran of Caine killings.

Lewis Moran was gunned down in the Brunswick Club in 2004.

Unredacted transcripts must also be provided for conversations in the 10 years to 2014 between police and Price related to Goussis and/or the murders of Chartres-Abbott, Lewis Moran and Lewis Caine.

Related documents and notes, both handwritten and electronic, must also be surrendered.

Goussis’ legal team believes exposing the material is crucial in his bid to overturn the Moran conviction.

The hit was orchestrated by drug kingpin Carl Williams.

Goussis is also trying to understand the impact barrister turned police snitch Nicola Gobbo – aka Lawyer X – had on his case.

The royal commission into Gobbo’s involvement with police exposed a number of issues, including that she regularly met with and advised witnesses in criminal proceedings where she was acting for an accused person.