Slain Macris farewelled in Sydney by widow Victoria and family

Slain Australian-Greek gangster John Macris was laid to rest in a private burial in Sydney over the weekend.

John Macris’s widow, Victoria Karida, after his funeral in Sydney on Saturday. Picture: Matrix Media Group

Slain Australian-Greek gangster John Macris was laid to rest in a private burial in Sydney at the weekend, following his brutal gangland-style execution in Athens two weeks ago.

Among the mourners was Macris’s widow, reality-TV star and former Playboy playmate, Victoria Karida, who has reportedly told friends she now fears for her life and wants to move to Australia following her young partner’s murder.

Ms Karida, dressed in black, was photographed after Saturday’s burial outside her in-laws’ heavily fortified home in the ­affluent suburb of Mosman. Macris’s father, Stelios, and his brother Alex followed close behind.

It is understood Macris was laid to rest at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney’s west next to his sister Vicki who died of leukaemia more than 30 years ago.

The burial came a week after the 46-year-old was farewelled in a traditional Greek Orthodox funeral service at the Agios Nektarios church in the suburb of Voula in southern Athens. Close family and friends accompanied Macris’s body home to Sydney.

Slain Australian-Greek gangster John Macris.

Ms Karida, who married Macris two years ago on the Greek party island of Mykonos, shared two children — Achilles and Alexandra — with Macris and they lived together in a four-storey mansion in Athens. They employed a security guard, who was hidden behind a one-way mirror at the front gate, and a second guard, who patrolled the grounds.

Investigators are still hunting for the lone assassin, who was captured on CCTV footage firing repeatedly at Macris as he sat in the driver’s seat of his black Smart car at 9.05pm on October 31. He died of a shot to the head with a 9mm pistol.

Macris had been living in Greece for the past seven years, having established a security company, My Services.

At the time of Macris’s death, Australian police had a warrant out for his arrest after he allegedly drove on a suspended licence.

Greek police are investigating whether the killing is linked to a recent spate of violent turf wars in Athens’ southern suburbs.