Heartbroken family of slain Sydney hairdresser Amy Hazouri speak about their ‘angel’

The heartbroken father of an ‘innocent’ hairdresser who was killed in an assassination said his daughter was an ‘angel’ and wished he’d died instead.

Sydney hairdresser Amy Hazouri, 39, was killed alongside former gangster wife Lametta Fadlallah, 48, in the back of a Toyota 4WD in Panania, south-west Sydney on Saturday.

On Monday night Ms Hazouri’s devastated father, Khaled, broke down crying while describing his beautiful daughter.

‘Angel, angel,’ he told Nine News. ‘Friendly to every people.’

In broken English Mr Hazouri said his daughter always had a smile and offered a hand wherever needed.

While the broken father sobbed a translator revealed he said he wished he had died instead of Amy.

It is understood Ms Fadlallah was the target of Saturday night’s attack.

She was previously in a relationship with two underworld kingpins and considered ‘a gangster’ in her own right by police.

An underworld source who knew Ms Fadlallah told the Daily Telegraph she could have been killed because she knew too much and the underworld’s secret dealings. 

Ms Fadlallah and Ms Hazouri were in the back seat of the car when at least one gunman sprayed their car with bullets, killing them both outside Ms Fadlallah’s home.

Ms Hazouri had been on a house call at Ms Fadlallah’s while the ‘gang wife’ prepared for a night out.

Police revealed on Sunday that the car was driven by a 20-year-old man, who sped to safety around the corner as bullets were fired.

Once out of the line of fire the young man contacted emergency services.

Ms Hazouri’s family described her as a ‘good girl’ who was an ‘innocent party’ in the shooting, confirming earlier  police assessment that she was likely collateral damage in a targeted attack on Ms Fadlallah.

Loved ones told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Hazouri worked six days a week to provide for her sick mother in Lebanon and had been planning a trip home to visit her.

But now she is set to make a very different homecoming – with family raising money for her to be transported back to Lebanon in a casket for her funeral.

Ms Hazouri’s sister Manal revealed on Monday that Ms Hazouri had stepped up to support the family amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon by sending a portion of her weekly pay to cover their bills.

Friend of eight years Sureyya Gunacti, who works in a neighbouring shop to Ms Hazouri’s salon, Jocelyne Chidiac Hair, said she had been excited to return to Lebanon.

She was planning a trip with her sister to first visit her mother and then travel through the Middle East with her sister, including a visit to Turkey.

With her poor health, Ms Hazouri’s mother will not be able to make the trip out to Australia and is relying on donations to help cover the cost of returning the 39-year-old’s body to Lebanon.

The family want to stress that she was an ‘innocent party’ in the shooting, confirming an earlier assessment from police that she was likely collateral damage in the targeted attack on Ms Fadlallah.

‘She was the most beautiful girl,’ Ms Gunacti told Daily Mail Australia. ‘She used come here and sit and talk.

‘Or she would ring me and say ‘let me do your hair, I’ll make you feel nice’.

Ms Gunacti said Ms Hazouri had been working at the salon for up to eight years and was beloved among staff and customers.

‘She loved her work and everybody loved her. She was a good girl, not married, no kids.

‘She would normally be here at this time, it’s so sad and I feel sad for her parents.’

Ms Gunacti said the salon owner Jocelyne Chidiac was ‘very sad’ about Ms Hazouri’s death as the pair had been ‘very close’.

Colleagues at the salon shared a tribute on Sunday saying they were ‘shattered’ to learn of the untimely death.

‘We are shattered, our heart is broken, you left us too soon,’ the tribute read. ‘May your memory be eternal… until we meet again.’