Moran Taskforce 'sharks', Court Hears
The Age
Tuesday April 29, 2008
THE police taskforce investigating the Lewis Moran murder contained "sharks" who went on a feeding frenzy when they saw blood in the water, a prisoner said in a secretly recorded jail conversation played in the Supreme Court.
The inmate - who has since nominated himself as the driver when Moran was killed - told then fellow inmate Evangelos Goussis on September 29, 2004, that the police were investigating a big case."If they break through with it, once they're on, they're like sharks...Once they get blood in the water, they go on a feeding frenzy," the prisoner said, according to the transcript made from the conversation."The more you do that, the more you open the door, they're sharks. They're f---ing rats and...they're just gunna keep f---in' thrashing around the waters till they get every drop of blood out of ya. That's why they call them Purana." The conversations were played before a jury sitting in the trial of Goussis, 40, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Moran on March 31, 2004.The jurors and Justice Betty King have seen security camera footage of a masked gunman shooting Moran, and a second gunman shooting his friend Herbert Wrout at the Brunswick Club.Goussis, who is alleged to have shot and killed Moran, has also pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Mr Wrout.Defence counsel Stephen Shirrefs, SC, has said that Goussis was in Port Phillip Prison, on remand for an unrelated matter, at the same time as the quoted criminal in 2004. The criminal, who cannot be identified, has given evidence in the trial that Goussis was one of three men involved in the contract killing, and admitted shooting Moran.In the September 29 taped conversation he urged Goussis not to help them or make statements.Late yesterday, Detective Senior Constable Simon Hunt, formerly with Purana taskforce, said in court that no prison informers were implicating Goussis and the criminal in the Lewis Moran murder.The trial continues.
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