Moran family
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The Moran family is an infamous Melbourne based criminal family. During the 2000s, three members of the Moran family, including father Lewis Moran, were murdered in the Melbourne gangland killings.
[edit] Moran family members
Members of the Moran family include:
Lewis Moran was the patriarch and father of the Moran family. He became a long-term associate of Graham Kinniburgh after they met as workers on Melbourne's waterside. On March 31, 2004, he was shot dead, in broad daylight, in a hotel on Sydney Road, Brunswick.
At 10.40am on June 21, 2003, Jason Moran and associate Pasquale Barbaro were executed by a lone gunman whilst watching a Saturday morning Auskick Australian rules football clinic his children were attending. Police feared the murder of Jason Moran would lead to further violence in the Melbourne underworld war.
On June 15, 2000, Mark Moran was killed with two bullets as he was stepping into his car outside his luxury home in Aberfeldie. Mark Moran's real father, Leslie "Johnny" Cole, was shot dead at point blank range with .38 revolver in Sydney's 1982 underworld war.
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[edit] References
- Judy Moran signs with Harry M Miller, Sydney Morning Herald, April 12, 2004
- Taskforce to probe underworld killings, John Silvester, Ian Munro, Jamie Berry, The Age, June 23, 2003
- Double murder signals stepping up of underworld war, Sydney Morning Herald, John Silvester, June 23 2003
- Mobsters Inc: How Melbourne became No.1 with a bullet, Adam Shand, The Bulletin, February 18, 2004
- Underworld murder suspect speaks out, John Silvester, The Age, December 15, 2003
- Lewis Moran murdered, The Age, March 31, 2004