An aging bodyguard fights for life in hospital, the latest in a long line of John Ibrahim’s family members and associates to be shot, stabbed or bashed.
Semi ‘Tongan Sam’ Ngata, 59, who first met Sydney nightclub identity more than a decade ago, was shot in the back outside John’s mother’s home on Friday night.
His shooting marks the most recent chapter in a saga of violence that began when John was stabbed as a teenager in Kings Cross.
An aging bodyguard fights for life in hospital, the latest in a long line of John Ibrahim’s family members and associates to be shot, stabbed or bashed (pictured are Ibrahim brothers John, right, Michael, middle, and Sam, left)
Semi ‘Tongan Sam’ Ngata, 59, who first met Sydney nightclub identity more than a decade ago, was shot in the back outside John Ibrahim’s (pictured) mother’s home on Friday night
Since then his three brothers Sam, Fadi and Michael have all been shot, the targets of drive-by shootings and attempted murders.
Others who have been shot, stabbed, bashed or targeted by gunfire include John’s sister, nephew and cousin, and now his trusted bodyguard.
In his book Last King of the Cross John wrote he was ‘ready to tear the Sydney underworld apart’ after his younger brother Fadi was shot.
Fadi was in a Lamborghini when he was shot five times by an unknown gunman, but survived the near-fatal 2009 attack.
His shooting marks the most recent chapter in a saga of violence that began when John was stabbed as a teenager in Kings Cross (pictured are Fadi Ibrahim and wife Shayda)
Fadi (pictured) was in a Lamborghini when he was shot five times by an unknown gunman, but survived the near-fatal 2009 attack
Fadi’s wife was also hit once in the ambush outside their Castle Cove home in Sydney’s north in 2009.
No one has ever been charged over the attack, but the couple and the youngest Ibrahim brother Michael were later accused of conspiring to murder John Macris, who they believe masterminded the shooting.
In 2010 John’s sister Armani Haddad was at home in Ryde when the property was hit with 25 bullets.
John’s older brother, former bikie boss Hassan ‘Sam’ Ibrahim (pictured), a convicted criminal who remains behind bars, was targeted by a shooting in 2011
John’s older brother, former bikie boss Hassan ‘Sam’ Ibrahim, a convicted criminal who remains behind bars, was targeted by a shooting in 2011.
He was hit twice in the leg while standing in the front yard of his mother’s Merrylands home with Tongan Sam.
The next month it was John’s nephew’s turn. The son of John’s sister Maha, Hassan ‘Sam’ Haddad, then 19, was shot in Old Guildford in February 2011.
His 23-year-old cousin Jihad Hamid was also wounded in the attack.
The next month it was John’s nephew’s turn. The son of John’s sister Maha (pictured), Hassan ‘Sam’ Haddad, then 19, was shot in Old Guildford in February 2011
Michael Ibrahim is a convicted killer who was shot in the shoulder on Macquarie Street in Sydney’s CBD in 2015.
John claims he has been shot, bashed, and left for dead, on top of the 1987 stabbing.
‘I’ve been stabbed, shot, bashed and threatened with every weapon and ‘death scenario’ hundreds of times. I’ve been imprisoned here and overseas,’ he wrote in his book.
‘I’ve been left for dead and put in a coma. I’ve been locked up and betrayed. So what I am saying is, I know pain.’
Pictured are Semi ‘Tongan Sam’ Ngata (second left) with John Ibrahim (second right)
Pictured are Sam Ibrahim (left) with Tongan Sam (centre) and lawyer Stephen Alexander (right)
The latest shooting comes just weeks after Ibrahim brothers Fadi and Michael were detained in a dramatic police sting in Dubai and extradited back to Australia over a drug and tobacco syndicate.
Fadi was released from jail on strict bail conditions after a $2.2million surety was put up.
The Merrylands home belonging to John’s mother was searched by police during the raids, and a loaded 9mm handgun was seized from the property.
John’s home was also raided as part of the investigation in August – but he was not arrested or charged with any offences.