Notorious Hamzy gangster makes bombshell claim about his brother’s drive-by assassination – as he takes aim at NSW Police from behind bars with multimillion-dollar legal bid

By HARRISON CHRISTIAN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 05:01 BST, 17 May 2025 | Updated: 05:07 BST, 17 May 2025

Crime boss Bassam Hamzy is suing NSW Police from behind bars, claiming they could have stopped a plot to assassinate his older brother a week before he died. 

Mejid Hamzy, 44, was killed during a 2020 drive-by assassination at his home at Condell Park in Sydney’s west. 

Bassam has now launched a multimillion-dollar negligence case in the NSW Supreme Court, claiming police and other agencies ‘had about seven days to warn Mejid Hamzy, but failed to do so’, according to The Daily Telegraph. 

In his statement of claim, hand-written in Goulburn’s Supermax Prison where he is serving 40 years for murder and other offences, Bassam alleged a senior detective had received a tip-off from a NSW Crime Commission investigator about the plot. 

The call between the detective and the investigator was recorded by the police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), he claimed.

He did not reveal how he became aware of the alleged call or a recording of it. 

‘The phone call was lawfully intercepted by (LECC) and was listened to live,’ he wrote. ‘No action was taken… to warn Mejid Hamzy (and he) was murdered shortly after this call took place.

‘The defendants had about seven days to warn Mejid Hamzy but failed to do so.

Bassam Hamzy (pictured) is suing NSW Police from behind bars, claiming they could have stopped a plot to assassinate his brother a week before he died

Mejid Hamzy (pictured) was killed during a 2020 drive-by assassination at his home at Condell Park in Sydney’s west

Mejid’s shooting death in 2020 (crime scene pictured) sparked fears of a gangland war

He listed the defendants in the case as NSW Police, the NSW Crime Commission, the State of NSW and the LECC. 

He asked for the state to compensate him but did not give a specific figure. 

The Supreme Court hears cases where the claim is potentially worth more than $750,000.

The case came to light after The Saturday Telegraph won a legal battle to lift a suppression order on the matter requested by lawyers of the state government. 

Hamzy is representing himself in the matter.

He was jailed in 2002 for the murder of Kris Toumazis outside the Mr Goodbar nightclub in Darlinghurst.

But he continued to run a criminal operation from inside Lithgow jail, using a secret phone that authorities discovered in 2008 had made more than 19,000 calls. 

Mejid was a drug supplier and senior lieutenant in his criminal operation. 

Bassam’s statement of claim (pictured) was hand-written in Goulburn’s Supermax Prison where he is serving 40 years for murder and other offences

His shooting death in 2020 sparked fears of a gangland war in Sydney’s western suburbs, where Middle Eastern crime gangs had long run rampant.

At the time, an underworld source described Mejid to Daily Mail Australia as ‘one of the biggest names in Sydney’. 

Mejid was one of the first casualties in a feud that has since seen more than 20 crime figures executed, often in public areas. 

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Notorious Hamzy gangster makes bombshell claim about his brother’s drive-by assassination – as he takes aim at NSW Police from behind bars with multimillion-dollar legal bid

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