Overview

• Crown prosecutor Kate Ratcliffe presented dashcam footage showing a stolen Audi firing ten shots at Bilal Hamze outside Kid Kyoto restaurant in June 2021.
• Court heard recorded boasts from Samuel Rokomaqisa claiming responsibility for the killing and referring to payments from the Alameddine organised crime network.
• Prosecutors introduced bank messages in which the accused said he was owed about $270,000 for his role in the murder and related conspiracies.
• Defence counsel George Thomas signalled that evidence will include frantic phone calls between a sex worker and an unidentified person of interest near the scene, suggesting an alternate conspiracy.
• The eight-week trial at the NSW Supreme Court also covers charges of conspiring to kill Bilal’s brother Ibrahem Hamze and the aggravated assault of an elderly man during a police chase.