Brothers 4 Life get life
GANG leader Farhad Qaumi has been jailed for a maximum of 60 years jail and at least 43 years for his role in the fatal “violent underworld rampage” that erupted in Western Sydney in late 2013.
His two brothers got shorter significant terms.
The 34-year-old Brothers 4 Life Blacktown chapter leader was jailed yesterday for a string of crimes including manslaughter and a contract murder. He will be in jail till he is 77 or older.
His brother Mumtaz Qaumi, 32, was jailed for at least 36 years for offences including the two fatal shootings.
Describing the violence as “outlandish and lawless”, Justice Peter Hamill also jailed Jamil Qaumi, 25, for at least 21 years for crimes that included manslaughter.
In handing down his sentence for Farhad and Mumtaz, the judge said they had “indulged in a war with a criminal gang” in which “completely innocent victims were caught in the crossfire”.
“Two men are dead and it is pure good fortune that more people were not killed,” Justice Hamill said.
The brothers were found guilty in February of organising for a hitman to shoot Sydney debt collector Joe Antoun dead “in cold blood” when he opened the front door of his Strathfield home on December 16, 2013.
Justice Hamill made note of how Mr Antoun’s partner Teagan Mullens gave evidence about witnessing the father of her children “executed in cold blood”.
She spoke of how her two little daughters waved at the ambulance that took their father away after he was shot.
Two men are dead and it is pure good fortune that more people were not killed.