Jason Moran
Overview
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, and one of the leaders of the Moran crime family
Moran family
The Moran family is an infamous Melbourne-based criminal family, notable for their involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. Family matriarch Judy Moran lost two sons, Jason and Mark, estranged husband Lewis, and brother-in-law Des to an underworld feud that resulted in the deaths of over 30...
, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings
Melbourne gangland killings
The Melbourne gangland killings were the murders in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of 36 criminal figures or partners between 16 January 1998 and 13 August 2010. The murders were in a series of retributional murders involving various underworld groups. The deaths caused a sustained power vacuum...
. He sported a 12 cm scar on the side of his face.
Moran was the son of Lewis Moran
Lewis Moran
Lewis Moran was an Australian organized crime figure and patriarch of the infamous Moran family of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Notable for his involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings, Moran was shot dead in a Melbourne hotel The Brunswick Club in 2004...
and Judy Moran
Judy Moran
Judy Moran is the matriarch of the infamous Moran criminal family of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Judy Moran was first married to Leslie John "Johnny" Cole, who was shot dead in Sydney drug-related gangland conflict in 1982...
. Mark Moran
Mark Moran (criminal)
Mark Anthony Moran was a criminal of the infamous Moran family from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, notable for its involvement in the illegal drug trade and the Melbourne gangland killings...
was his half-brother. Moran attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School is an independent, Uniting Church, co-educational school, with campuses located in Essendon, Moonee Ponds and Keilor East in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
. He met his future wife, Trisha Kane, at 15 years of age. She is the daughter of Les Kane
Leslie Herbert Kane
Leslie Herbert Kane was an Australian gangster who lived in Melbourne, Australia.-Life:Kane. one of two brothers who also were in the same line of business, but Les was considered the most violent and unpredictable of the three.Kane left school and became a member of the Federated Union of...
, a Melbourne Painter and Docker
Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union
The Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union was an Australian trade union that covered "mostly work associated with chipping, painting, scrubbing, cleaning, working in every size of tanks, cleaning boilers, docking and undocking vessels, and rigging work"...
and reputed criminal who was murdered in his family home on 19 October 1978.
Moran was reported to have shot Carl Williams in the stomach during an argument in Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park, Victoria
Gladstone Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Gladstone Park had a population of 8669...
on 13 October 1999, giving rise to lengthy violent turf wars known as the Melbourne gangland killings
Melbourne gangland killings
The Melbourne gangland killings were the murders in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of 36 criminal figures or partners between 16 January 1998 and 13 August 2010. The murders were in a series of retributional murders involving various underworld groups. The deaths caused a sustained power vacuum...
.
Jason Moran had attended the funeral of another slain mobster, Victor Peirce
Victor Peirce
Victor George Peirce was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Peirce was a member of the Pettingill family, headed by matriarch and former Richmond brothel owner Kath Pettingill....
.
Alphonse Gangitano
Alphonse Gangitano
Alphonse John Gangitano was an Italian Australian criminal from Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne. Nicknamed the "Black Prince of Lygon Street", Gangitano was the face of an organisation known as the Carlton Crew, and a close associate of convicted criminals Graham Kinniburgh, Mick Gatto and...
and Moran, along with associate Mark John McNamara, were charged over an attack in the Sports Bar nightclub in King Street, Melbourne
King Street, Melbourne
King Street is a main street in the Melbourne central business district. King Street is part of the Pacific Highway, and used to be part of National Route 1 until the city by-pass road linking the Monash Freeway with the Westgate Freeway was completed...
, on 19 December 1995, for which Moran received a term of imprisonment..
Moran was considered by many to be a "dead man walking" and when parole
Parole
Parole may have different meanings depending on the field and judiciary system. All of the meanings originated from the French parole . Following its use in late-resurrected Anglo-French chivalric practice, the term became associated with the release of prisoners based on prisoners giving their...
d from prison in September 2001 was allowed to leave Australia due to fears for his life.
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