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05-03-2006, 09:15 AM
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Murder ... police outside the crime scene at a club in Brunswick where Keith Faure, inset, shot Lewis Moran
A GEELONG man has been jailed over two of Melbourne's gangland killings.
Keith George Faure, 54, received a life sentence today in the Victorian Supreme Court for the murder of Melbourne crime boss Lewis Moran.
Faure, who appeared in court via videolink, also was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of convicted killer Lewis Caine.
Justice Bernard Teague fixed a non-parole period of 19 years.
Mr Moran, 58, patriarch of a key family in Melbourne's gangland war, was shot dead by two balaclava-clad men in the Brunswick Club in Sydney Road, Brunswick, on March 31, 2004.
The court heard Faure had pleaded guilty to Moran's murder last month and had agreed to give evidence over the execution killing.
Lewis Caine, 39, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in a Brunswick Street, in Melbourne's inner-north, about two months later, on May 8.
Faure pleaded not guilty to the murder, but a jury returned a guilty verdict after a three week trial in November last year.
Justice Teague described the murder of Mr Moran as a callous, planned and premeditated execution for money.
The court heard Faure and two co-accused were paid $150,000 by fugitive underworld figure Tony Mokbel and another man, who can not be named for legal reasons, to kill Mr Moran.
Faure drove his two co-accused to the Brunswick Club, where one of them fatally shot Moran and another shot and seriously injured his drinking companion, the court was told.
Mr Moran's widow, Judy, was at today's sentencing hearing and the court heard the murder had caused her devastating emotional consequences.
NewsAU
Murder ... police outside the crime scene at a club in Brunswick where Keith Faure, inset, shot Lewis Moran
A GEELONG man has been jailed over two of Melbourne's gangland killings.
Keith George Faure, 54, received a life sentence today in the Victorian Supreme Court for the murder of Melbourne crime boss Lewis Moran.
Faure, who appeared in court via videolink, also was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of convicted killer Lewis Caine.
Justice Bernard Teague fixed a non-parole period of 19 years.
Mr Moran, 58, patriarch of a key family in Melbourne's gangland war, was shot dead by two balaclava-clad men in the Brunswick Club in Sydney Road, Brunswick, on March 31, 2004.
The court heard Faure had pleaded guilty to Moran's murder last month and had agreed to give evidence over the execution killing.
Lewis Caine, 39, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in a Brunswick Street, in Melbourne's inner-north, about two months later, on May 8.
Faure pleaded not guilty to the murder, but a jury returned a guilty verdict after a three week trial in November last year.
Justice Teague described the murder of Mr Moran as a callous, planned and premeditated execution for money.
The court heard Faure and two co-accused were paid $150,000 by fugitive underworld figure Tony Mokbel and another man, who can not be named for legal reasons, to kill Mr Moran.
Faure drove his two co-accused to the Brunswick Club, where one of them fatally shot Moran and another shot and seriously injured his drinking companion, the court was told.
Mr Moran's widow, Judy, was at today's sentencing hearing and the court heard the murder had caused her devastating emotional consequences.
NewsAU