Man and teenager sentenced over roles in murders of gangster Salim Hamze and father

Australia Broadcast Center

31-07-2025

A man has been jailed and a teenage boy has been spared prison over their roles in the underworld murders of teenage gangster Salim Hamze and his innocent father Toufik four years ago.
Suliman Hamza, now 23, was jailed for four years but with time served and a non-parole period he will be released in October.
The boy, who was just 16 at the time, avoided a jail sentence but was handed a two-year intensive corrections order.
Both pleaded guilty to being accessories after the fact to the two murders in the Downing Centre District Court.
While the pair were not convicted of shooting the Hamzes, they admitted to being recruited to clean evidence from the getaway cars used by the killers.
Their sentence hearing last week heard the pair left not only their own DNA after cleaning one of the vehicles, but that of the previous owner who the car was stolen from.
Hamza and the boy's legal team argued they had no idea the cars were used to murder two people, describing them as "novices".
The court heard Hamza had to Google what Windex was used for when tasked with wiping evidence from the getaway car.
"I wouldn't employ them to clean my home," the boy's barrister said during last week's hearing.
The Hamzes were gunned down in broad daylight getting into a red ute outside the Osgood Street, Guildford family home in October 2021.
Their deaths came at the height of gangland hostilities between the rival Hamzy and Alameddine clans over the city's drug trade.
The warring families run organised crime networks in Western Sydney, with their feud responsible for the deaths of seven people.
Toufik Hamze, 64, was one of two innocent civilians to be killed as the tit-for-tat shootings played out on Sydney's streets over two years.
Despite sharing the same last name, 18-year-old Salim Hamze was not a blood relative of the Hamzy family that earned public infamy through notorious crime boss Bassam Hamzy.
Police believe Mr Hamze became a target after suspicions he was the gunman who killed rival drug dealer Shady Kanj a few months before he met his own end.
The teenager is also suspected of being the gunman who shot a senior member of the Alameddine family, who survived the attack and is currently in jail.
The man police believe shot the Hamzes was one the teen's best friends and fled overseas after allegedly shooting the father and son.
Zaid Abdelhafez, 22, is wanted on a warrant for the murders and police have spent the past four years attempting to locate him.
Alameddine family patriarch Rafat Alameddine and associate Ray Bayssari are also wanted on warrants for two counts of murder for allegedly organising the hit, but have fled to Lebanon.