His killers didn't wait for the 48-year-old crime lord, known as Sydney's Tony Soprano, to arrive at his gym on the Tuesday morning last month they put seven bullets into him. Of the 20 gunned down in Sydney's bloody crime gang wars within the past two years, plenty have met their end in a shabby suburban gym car park - the assassins' killing ground.
Moradian, who had been hiding out in the rented apartment for eight months after police warned him that criminal rivals wanted him dead, was a big wheel in Australia's cocaine pipeline. In 2011, after Moradian admitted his Golden Gun drug syndicate was behind the importation of 300kg of cocaine into Sydney, a judge gave him 16 years. He was released in December 2017 and back with his wife in their northwestern Sydney mansion where, police claimed in court, they dined off golden Versace cutlery, beneath a painted ceiling inspired by Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel.
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A hint of mermaids
Erin Palmisano's latest novel once again has food and romance at the heart of its well-plotted story.
Execution over innovation
Big and bold ideas are fine, but being the best beats being first.
Something's wrong with all of them
Engaging dissection of the 20th-century novel likely to send the reader in search for the book under discussion.
Cell warfare
A NZ trial using immunotherapy to beat a form of blood cancer is expanding after promising results – and it's hoped the 'gold standard' treatment will soon be widely available.
The virus that stole all the smells
In this edited extract from The Forgotten Sense, Jonas Olofsson traces the rise in anosmia as a result of Covid-19 infections.
When caring is ‘woke'
Some years ago, I sat in a small plane circling over Punta del Este in Uruguay. There was a delay and we sat in tense silence until we began our descent. Outside the tiny airport, a taxi ferried us past private Lear jets; these had been the cause of the hold-up. The driver pointed to two planes side by side. \"This one is a Trump plane.\"
Getting along swimmingly
The presenters of Endangered Species Aotearoa spend a fair bit of time on and in the water in the second season.
That clingy feeling
Our pets display the same types of attachment behaviours as we do, or so it seems.
The famous furred
A peaceful little spot in LA is the final resting place for the pets of some of Hollywood's biggest names.
Gone girl
She wandered in on Thursday morning looking very wan, and climbed into her bed. I sat on the edge and stroked her back.
