Notorious Sydney Brothers 4 Life gangster Bassam Hamzy is found guilty of running drugs from inside one of Australia’s toughest jails
The boss of notorious Sydney gang Brothers 4 Life has been found guilty of running a drug syndicate from one of Australia’s highest security prisons.
A three-week trial against 45-year-old Bassam Hamzy concluded last week, with jurors delivering their verdict on Friday after a week of deliberation.
He was found guilty of one count of supply of commercial drugs and one count of knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime, the report said The Daily Telegraph.
Hamzy’s cell is in the high-risk inmate unit of Goulburn’s Supermax prison, but he was still able to run the meth operation by using code words with fellow inmates and drug couriers.
He has been in prison for more than 20 years for various crimes, including the shooting death of a teenager outside a Sydney nightclub.
Brothers 4 Life gang boss Bassam Hamzy (pictured), 45, found guilty of drug smuggling from prison
Hamzy is being held in the high-risk inmate unit of Goulburn Supermax prison (pictured)
Hamzy was already on trial for the meth syndicate in 2023, but jurors could not reach a verdict and so a new trial was held this month.
Prosecutors told the court that 450 grams worth of methylamphetamine was sold in Wollongong between October 2017 and February 2018 in deals coordinated by Hamzy.
Two men involved in those deals, who were members of Brothers 4 Life, would later testify against him in court.
For their own protection, they are known only as ‘Witness A’ and ‘Witness I’.
The court heard that both men received compensation from prosecution in return for their testimony.
Lawyers for Hamzy argued that at least one of the men had turned on him for no other reason than to benefit him, but the jury didn’t buy it.
The court heard Hamzy received $14,000 for the drug deals.
He is serving sentences for unrelated crimes until at least 2035 and will return to court in August for sentencing on the drug charges.