Evangelos ''Ange'' Goussis

Goussis was a former member of an Australian Olympic boxing squad.

He was also a friend of Nik Radev, shot dead in April 2003.

On March 31, 2004, the patriarch of the Moran crime family, Lewis Moran, was shot dead in the early evening at his regular drinking spot, the Brunswick Club Hotel at the corner of Sydney Road and Michael Street.

His long-time friend Herbert Wrout was badly wounded.

Moran was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two men wearing balaclavas had walked into the bar and opened fire.

A police spokesman said two people were shot shortly before 6.35pm and that one person died at the scene while the other was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition.

Lewis Caine, 39, was found dead on May 8, 2004.

He died from a .38 hollow-point bullet fired into his skull at short range.

His body was found in a Brunswick street.

Caine had allegedly taken a contract to kill ''Carlton Crew'' boss, Mario Condello.

Keith George Faure, 54, and Ange Goussis, 38, were later arrested and originally pleaded not guilty to the murder but later claimed Goussis shot him in self-defence.

Noel Faure had been arrested with his brother Keith in Geelong on May 19, 2004, and charged with possessing an unregistered .22 pistol while prohibited from having a gun.

He was sentenced to 18 months with a minimum of nine months' jail.

Police successfully applied for a court order to interview Noel Faure about the Moran murder shortly before his release.

They gave evidence they reasonably suspected that Faure was one of the gunmen in the Brunswick Club.

Evidence was given that an enhanced image from a security video showed that one of the masked men had a tattoo on his hand similar to Faure's.

Police also were granted court permission to interview Keith Faure, who, along with Evangelos Goussis, was awaiting his trial for murdering Lewis Caine.

Faure was taken from prison to the club and participated in a police video re-enactment.

Goussis faced a court over the Lewis Caine murder in November 2005.

He was found guilty.

Lawyer, Zarah Garde-Wilson (right), the former girlfriend of Lewis Caine, was found guilty of contempt of court in November 2005 after refusing to answer questions in their trial.

While refusing to give evidence, Garde-Wilson made a failed application to enter the witness protection program.

Garde-Wilson said she had refused to give evidence "so I don't get my head blown off" and claimed Faure had threatened her life.

She said she was "petrified" for her safety and could possibly lose her licence to practise as a solicitor.

The pre-trial committal hearing for three men charged with the murder of Lewis Moran was supposed to start at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on December 4, 2005.

One of the men, Keith Faure collapsed in the dock as the committal hearing started and was taken to hospital by ambulance.

His lawyer, James Montgomery, told the court his client had complained of vomiting blood and had suffered a possible stroke.

"My client has been taken away by ambulance, (he) possibly had a stroke, we don't know yet," he said.

"He has had some signs of medical incapacity."

Moran's widow Judy, sat silently in the front row of the public gallery of the court as the drama unfolded.

Goussis was in the dock with Faure, however Noel Faure was not in court and his lawyer told the magistrate his client was ill and in hospital.

Noel Faure suffered injuries after he slashed his wrists and swallowed a set of nail clippers the previous week, a Barwon Prison has spokesman said.

Magistrate Jane Patrick adjourned the committal hearing for April 2006 after the prosecution and other parties agreed to the adjournment.

On May 13, 2006, Justice Bernard Teague sentenced Goussis to 20 years' jail, with a 15-year minimum, for the murder of Lewis Caine.

On February 26, 2007, Noel Faure entered a guilty plea to the murder of Lewis Moran when he appeared briefly by a video-link from Barwon Prison at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.

He also pleaded guilty to intentionally causing serious injury to Moran's friend, Herbert Wrout after the prosecution withdrew charges of attempted murder.

Mr Faure, formerly of Geelong, was remanded in custody to appear in the Supreme Court next month.

Evangelos Goussis, who is accused of being the second gunman, appeared at a committal hearing which began on March 22 when he will contest the charges laid against him.

On March 27, 2007, Magistrate Jane Patrick released an image from a hotel's closed circuit television system after she committed Evangelos "Ange" Goussis to stand trial on a charge of murdering Lewis Moran.

The image, recorded at the Brunswick Club Hotel at around 6.30pm on March 31, 2004, shows Moran's drinking companion Bertie Wrout slumped against a bar while a gunman in the bottom left-hand corner aims a pistol at Moran's long-time friend.

What the image does not show is Moran being chased by another armed man before he was shot twice.

A badly wounded Wrout survived being shot in the chest and arm while Moran died at the scene.

A witness, known only as "C" who has been jailed for the crime, said in a statement that Goussis shot Moran and that another man, who is now terminally ill, shot Wrout.

Goussis, one of five gangland figures to have been charged over the shooting, pleaded not guilty to murdering Moran and was discharged on a count of attempting to murder Wrout.

He remains in custody and was ordered to appear again in the Supreme Court in July for a directions hearing.

Witness C, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court via video-link during Goussis' two-day committal hearing.

The witness, a gangland double murderer, told the court that "bad blood" between he and Lewis Moran had contributed to the killing.

He said that he phoned Moran to ask "if he had a problem with me" before being told to "fuck off" and that after the brief conversation his mind was made up and he decided to accept a contract to kill him.

The contract had been offered by fugitive drug baron Tony Mokbel and underworld serial murderer Carl Williams.

Mokbel wanted Moran dead because the crime group known as the 'Carlton Crew', of which Moran was a member, had bashed him in late 2002, witness C said in his police statement.

Stephen Sherrifs SC, for Goussis, called witness C a liar who had given several versions of his story to police.

When Mr Sherrifs asked the witness to recall the events leading up to the execution of Moran he said that he had spoken to Carl Williams who phoned him shortly before the shooting of Williams' right hand man Andrew Veniamin on March 3, 2004.

Witness C said that a meeting then took place between himself, Williams, Mokbel and Goussis in the car park of Bridie O'Reilly's Hotel in Brunswick .

He said Williams asked him if he knew anyone interested in killing Moran and that the hit was worth $150,000.

Witness C said that Williams had asked him if there was any friction between he and the 'Carlton Crew'.

He said that he told Williams he had been dirty on some members of the crime group particularly Lewis Moran but especially Jason Moran.

Witness C said he felt this way as a result of the 1998 murder of Lygon St crime boss and Carlton Crew leader, Alphonse Gangitano for which many believed Jason Moran to have been responsible.

Jason Moran was shot dead in Essendon in June 2003.

Witness C also said that he had been told that members of the Carlton Crew had put out a contract on his life and he had decided to phone Lewis Moran for some verification.

He said that Moran was less than forthcoming and launched into an expletive laden verbal tirade.

However, Radev was shot dead before he could carry it out.

Witness C said in a statement that Mr Gatto had taken offence that he didn't inform him sooner of a rumour that Radev, who was killed in April 2003, had agreed to kill the former boxer.

"Because of this situation I was deemed to be an enemy of Mick and his friends. In my heart I was never his enemy," the hired killer said.

He said that he requested another meeting with Williams shortly after Andrew Veniamin was murdered because he was worried that there would be surveillance on underworld identities and that the contract may have been jeopardised.

Witness C said he and Goussis then met Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel at the Grove Cafe in Brunswick where they were assured that it was safe to go ahead with the murder.

On March 31, 2004, the day of Moran's murder, witness C said Goussis had called into his house in a an outlying town during the morning and then driven to Melbourne with a bag containing guns and balaclavas.

The witness said that he and another man left for Melbourne at about 3.30pm and met Goussis at the London Hotel in Brunswick shortly after 5.00pm.

After a short while witness C said that Goussis left the bar and drove past the nearby Brunswick Club to confirm that Lewis Moran was there.

Fifteen minutes later he allegedly returned to the London Hotel to tell the two others he had seen Moran and that their plan could be put into action.

According to witness C the men then did a 'dummy run' up Sydney Road in separate cars before finding a suitable location to park one of the vehicles and transfer into a maroon Ford.

They then drove up Sydney Road, turned at the Brunswick Club into Michael St and observed Lewis Moran drinking at the hotel's bar.

Witness C said that he waited with the getaway car in a laneway at the rear of the hotel.

He said that Goussis and another man then took 90 seconds to enter the hotel's front bar, kill Moran and badly wound Wrout before retreating to the laneway and being driven away.

Witness C said that a week after Moran's death, Williams rang and told him: "Good one, mate. You have 150,000 reasons to smile."

He later met Mokbel and was handed $140,000 in an envelope from the boot of the millionaire's car and told there was "more business there if you want it".

The missing $10,000 was never paid.

Witness C said that he had seen Williams only once since Moran's murder when he and Goussis "bumped into him" at a hotel near the Magistrates' Court after witness C had appeared there to face charges relating to driving offences.

Carl Williams, witness C and another man have pleaded guilty to Moran's murder while Tony Mokbel, who fled Australia a year ago, was charged over the shooting.

On July 14, 2007, a top criminal lawyer acting for Tony Mokbel has been thrown out of a Victorian maximum-security jail.

On April 7, 2008 the Goussis murder trial began.

Goussis, accused of being the gunman who chased and executed Moran while a second shooter guarded the doorway, pleaded not guilty to murdering Moran at the Brunswick Club in March 2004.

The jurors and Justice Betty King had been told Moran, 58, was shot by a masked gunman at the club, where he was drinking with his friend Bert Wrout.

Goussis had also pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Mr Wrout, who was shot by a second gunman.

As the trial that stopped Victorians watching the Underbelly TV series began, jurors viewed security video of Moran's final moments before he was gunned down in the Brunswick Club four years before.

As Moran cowered in a corner, his attacker, having dispensed with the shotgun, shot him with a large-calibre pistol.

As Moran slumped to the floor, his attacker leaned forward and fired another shot.

"Mr Moran was a sitting duck," prosecutor Andrew Tinney told the jury.

Several people gasped as the video was played to the court, including Moran's widow, Judy.

But the jury was warned not to allow the graphic video, or their prejudices about the people involved in Melbourne's gangland war, to influence them and to judge the case only on the evidence. In his opening address, Mr Tinney told the jurors they would enter a world vastly different from their own as the trial progressed.

"It is a world of gangland intrigue and violence," he told them.

Mr Tinney said that criminal identities Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel had wanted Moran, 58, dead and they got their wish after offering a $150,000 contract on his life.

"In Victoria at that time there were men around who were willing to do the bidding of the likes of Carl Williams . . . for money . . . or simply because they were asked to do it by such a powerful individual," he said.

Mr Tinney said that a career criminal, who could not be named for legal reasons, was the getaway driver and his evidence would be central to the trial.

He said the criminal would say that he and Mr Goussis and another man, accepted the contract to kill Moran and did surveillance on the Brunswick Club in Sydney Rd in the days before the killing.

The confessed hitman said he was offered $150,000 by crime Tony Mokbel and Carl Williams to kill Moran during Melbourne's gangland war.

He told the jury he was introduced to Williams by Goussis.

The criminal, who nominated himself as the driver of the getaway car when Moran was murdered, told the jury he drove Mr Goussis and the other man to the club and waited for them while they donned balaclavas and ran into the club with guns.

The criminal said Goussis told him after the murder that he had shot Mr Moran twice following a chase in the club.

The witness said he had been close to Goussis and a third man, who were involved in the plan to kill Moran.

He said Goussis was to run into the club, where Moran regularly drank, and shoot him, while the third man would follow Goussis and "watch his back". The career criminal would drive the getaway car. The witness said he and the third man had health problems, and he (the witness) had been to the club a couple of times and believed he might have been identified.

The jurors have been told that the Moran killing took place in the context of the so-called gangland war between the Carlton Crew, which featured Mick Gatto and the Moran family; and another group, featuring Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel.

Mr Tinney said Moran was a sitting duck because he always attended the club around the same time and sat in the same spot.

On the day of the shooting, he said, the criminal drove the two shooters to the hotel and parked in a lane.

He said the pair donned balaclavas and walked inside the hotel.

Moran saw them enter and as one gunman stood at the door Mr Goussis allegedly – wearing a long dark coat and brandishing a shotgun – chased him through another room before Moran bumped "slap bang" into bar manager Sandra Sugars.

She was only inches away when Moran was shot in the head, Mr Tinney said.

The witness said he was told Mokbel and Williams would pay half each, and after the shooting Williams rang saying, "Good one mate, you have 150,000 reasons to smile".

The witness later met Mokbel, who paid him his fee – but was $10,000 short.

Defence barrister Stephen Shirrefs, SC, said the star witness was known for making up stories, was not credible and had falsely implicated his client.

On April 10, 2008, the Supreme Court heard a drinking mate of Lewis Moran who was wounded in the shooting that killed his friend is suffering post-traumatic amnesia.

The jury was told Herbert Wrout was unfit to give evidence because he was suffering a number of health issues.

Justice Betty King told the jury Mr Wrout's amnesia meant he had no memory of the event on March 31, 2004, that killed his friend.

"To put him through the ordeal of giving evidence and saying 'I just can't remember' to things put to him just doesn't serve a useful purpose," she said.

Evangelos Goussis, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Moran, 58, and to the attempted murder of Mr Wrout.

The jury heard that four days before the Moran shooting an agitated man threatened staff at the Sydney Rd pub.

Staff member Sally Davis said the man, in his 50s, was asked to leave when he began swearing loudly on his mobile phone.

"Amongst what he said was, 'I'm not scared of the Morans, f--- the Morans, I'm not a narc, Lewis is not a narc'," Ms Davis told the court.

"I don't know why he brought that up; there was no reason for it. It's not like Lewis was standing at the end of the bar, or anything, at that time.

"Lewis wasn't there so there was no reason for this guy to say anything about what he said about the Morans. It wasn't connected. It wasn't related to anything."

The court heard that as the man left the club with a woman he said: "Wouldn't f-----g come back here anyway. Watch your backs."

Ms Davis said she marked the security footage and kept it because she was worried about the incident. "It was quite scary. It was very, very strange and very scary."

The court heard the tape was given to police after Moran's shooting and used in their investigation.

The career criminal, who the jury heard would give evidence central to the trial, took police through a videotaped re-enactment of what allegedly happened at the club.

Sen-Det David Leveridge said the man also led them to a beach where he said he had dumped his clothes from the night in a bin and threw the guns used off a pier. But the jury heard a dive team could not find the weapons.

On April 14, 2008, the career criminal told the court he was convinced Lewis Moran was trying to have him killed.

The criminal said relations between himself and members of the Carlton Crew -- which included Mick Gatto and Lewis Moran -- had soured after he heard of a plan to kill Mr Gatto but apparently failed to warn the former boxer quickly enough.

He said he had been friendly with Mick Gatto, but the relationship took a turn for the worse when the witness apparently did not act quickly enough when he told Mr Gatto about a plot to kill him.

When he met Williams in early 2004, he was told of rumours Moran had taken out a contract on him. He was then invited to kill Moran on behalf of Williams and Mokbel, who would split the $150,000 fee.

The criminal said Williams outlined Moran's routine, including what time he usually arrived at the Brunswick Club and where he stood.

But he initially declined the deal, saying he was taken aback at the suggestion Moran was trying to have him murdered, and wanted to check for himself if it were true.

"If I found out it's true, I'd rather get paid for doing it rather than doing it for nothing," he said.

He rang Moran at the Brunswick Club and asked if they had "bad blood".

"Using expletives he told me to eff off, there's no talking," the criminal said.

The call convinced him "something needed to be done", and he accepted the contract, with Mr Goussis and another man to also take part.

The criminal told the juryCarl Williams wanted Lewis Moran killed to send a "payback" message over the death of an associate,.

Giving evidence via videolink, the lifelong criminal said Williams wanted the contract killing to go ahead as soon as possible after the funeral of his friend Andrew Veniamin.

Moran was killed the day after Veniamin's funeral.

The witness said he was worried about police surveillance being conducted on underworld figures after Veniamin's funeral.

But he said Williams, speaking in code, wanted the "hit" to go ahead as soon as possible after Veniamin's wake. "That was because I believe Carl Williams wanted it to be a message in relation to a payback for Veniamin," he said.

Prosecutor Andrew Tinney asked what Williams indicated to him in the call. The criminal replied: "Go ahead, it's still sweet." The witness said he had contacted Williams by public telephone to see if a $150,000 contract to kill Moran was still viable.

The witness told Mr Tinney that Goussis and the third man were interested in being involved.

On April 16, 2008, the career criminal denied setting up a former close friend to get a discounted sentence for the murder of Lewis Moran.

Cross-examined by defence counsel Stephen Shirrefs, SC, the witness admitted to previous criminal offences, including manslaughter, malicious wounding, armed robbery, burglary and dishonesty crimes.

He agreed that he had spent most of his adult life in prison. He had also spent time in hospital for mental health problems.

He agreed with Mr Shirrefs that he had told lies, but denied he had set others up to take the "fall" for him.

The Supreme Court jury heard he had committed many violent crimes and was once in a rival faction to standover man Mark "Chopper" Read, but he denied being in an organised gang.

"That's a bit of Chopper Read fiction," he said.

But Stephen Shirrefs, SC, said the witness had spent half his adult life in jail and was a perjurer who would lie under oath to suit his purpose.

"You are a person, I suggest, who would set other people up to take the fall for you -- you have lied in saying my client Evangelos Goussis was involved in the murder of Lewis Moran," Mr Shirrefs said.

The man was played a CCTV tape of Moran's murder, which showed a balaclava-clad gunman bursting into the club waving a shot gun.

The gunman chased Moran before killing him.

"The shotgun misfired so (Mr Goussis) shot Moran with the handgun twice," the man told the Victorian Supreme Court via videolink.

He claims he planned Moran's murder with Evangelos Goussis and another man and they did a dummy run past the Brunswick Club before carrying out the killing.

When asked if he had lied that Goussis was involved in the Moran murder to get himself a discounted sentence, he replied: "No, I haven't'.

The witness told the court Moran ran for his life when the shotgun that was meant to kill him misfired and said that the shotgun malfunction forced the accused gunman to resort to a .357Magnum tucked in his pants.

"The shotgun misfired so he shot Moran with the handgun twice," the man said.

"Moran had taken off and Ange had to run after him.

"I was told he shot (Moran) a couple of times and it was described to me that someone else may have been shot.

"There was no plan to shoot another patron; I couldn't understand what happened there."

The man said the weapons, which also included a 9mm Beretta, were tossed off the St Helen's Pier in Geelong after the gangland murder.

The witness said he carried out the contract murder for $150,000 which was paid for by convicted gangsters Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel.

When he collected the cash from Mokbel a few days later in a meeting in a car park behind a Brunswick hotel, he said Mokbel asked him if he would carry out more shootings for him.

"I was really a bit insulted by that," the man said.

"I was not involved in the so-called gangland war and told him there were more reasons for me to kill someone rather than just mere money."

He said when he and Goussis were counting the money, which was to be split three ways, they found they had been short-changed by $10,000.

He rang Williams who indicated that he would make good the full amount.

"I wasn't worried about the $10,000 but I made Carl Williams aware they were $10,000 short," the man said.

"He indicated that he would fix it."

On April 17, 2008, the jury heard that the career criminal told police that part of his motivation for helping to kill Lewis Moran stemmed from a fallout dating back to the murder of Alphonse Gangitano.

The criminal described Gangitano as a gentleman.

While he said that he would not dispute telling police that the fallout was part of his motive, it was not true.

The fallout was not with Lewis Moran, but was with his son Jason, the criminal said.

The criminal told the court that he confessed to being involved in Lewis Moran's murder on the day that the Australian Crime Commission questioned his wife.

He said he wanted to "get my wife out of that situation".

He earlier told the jury: "I was trying to -- not take the heat off my wife, but ease the pressure on my wife."

The criminal told the jury that he was convinced Moran was trying to have him killed.

He said that when Moran told him to "f--- off " in a brief telephone conversation, Moran's fate was sealed.

"They were the offending words, they were the alerting words, they were the words that made me aware that there was a problem," the criminal said.

He said the conversation, combined with other knowledge he had, was enough to convince him that there was a contract on his life.

The criminal admitted creating a fictitious story for Purana Taskforce detectives after telling them he wanted to co-operate over the murder.

During the conversation, he said he had no direct involvement in Moran's murder, but the part he played was to dispose of clothes and pick up money.

During a video re-enactment a day later, he said he was Moran's killer.

"I was telling lies in that interview," the criminal told the jury.

"There's no truth in it, none at all."

Stephen Shirrefs, SC, suggested the criminal told lies to convince police that he was not the shooter.

"If that was the case, Mr Shirrefs, I wouldn't have confessed in the first place," the criminal said.

On April 18, 2008, the career criminal denied he was the one who pulled the trigger on Moran - despite saying he was the shooter in a video-recorded re-enactment.

And he has admitted lying to police when he told them he could guarantee Carl Williams was not involved in the murder.

The criminal told the Supreme Court jury he accepted a $150,000 contract from Williams and Tony Mokbel to execute Moran.

Stephen Shirrefs, SC, asked the criminal whether he was in fact the person who shot Moran.

"No, I wasn't," he said.

Mr Shirrefs suggested to the man that Mr Goussis was not involved in Moran's murder.

"Not so," the criminal said.

The criminal also said he did not implicate someone else to receive a reduced sentence.

"I didn't care about a discount, Mr Shirrefs. I still don't," he said.

The criminal told the jury that he had lied in the videotaped interview in which he said he had fired the gun at Moran.

On April 21, 2008, the career criminal said he was ashamed of himself for breaking the underworld code of silence.

The man who drove the getaway car on the night of Moran's murder told the jury he never thought he would end up an informer after spending his whole life obeying the gangland creed.

"I always viewed the police and the prosecution as the natural enemy," he said.

"I was born into a world which has a code of conduct.

"I feel ashamed of breaking that code."

The court heard the criminal became an informer while in prison after being charged with Moran's murder, when his wife had a stroke.

He said his decision meant he had become an outcast in his world and his life as he knew it was effectively over.

"I have been broken. I feel like a broken man," he said.

On April 22, 2008, jurors watched crime scene footage of Lewis Moran's lifeless body slumped against a wall after he was executed.

Moran was lying in a pool of blood, his head resting against a stairwell. Wounds to his head and body were visible.

An eerie quiet descended on the court as the silent crime scene footage of Moran's final moment were shown.

Unlike CCTV footage shown to the jury earlier, the police video was in colour, providing a new picture of he bright and colourful Brunswick Club.

But as the camera surveyed the club, the vibe became much darker.

Crime scene markers and chairs highlighted where bullets and other pieces of evidence were found.

A chair was apparently knocked over as Moran tried to flee the gunman, while plastice cups littered the carpet in the gaming area.

Then the camera focussed on Moran's body, studing it from several different angles.

Pathologist Noel Woodford explained Moran's major wounds to the court - including bullet wounds to his shoulder, another through the back of his throat.

He described them as near contact wounds.

"The gunshot wounds in that case were the major issue," Dr Woodford said.

"I couldn't find another cause of death, and he had two gunshot wounds to the head."

Police forensic specialist Sergaent Bradley Mason said Moran's body was in a pool of blood when he attended the scene.

He said the blood patterns on the floor and walls were consistent with a high-velocity impact.

On April 28, 2008, it was reported that the police taskforce investigating the Moran murder contained "sharks" who went on a feeding frenzy when they saw blood in the water, a prisoner said in a secretly recorded jail conversation played in the Supreme Court.

The inmate — who has since nominated himself as the driver when Moran was killed — told then fellow inmate Evangelos Goussis on September 29, 2004, that the police were investigating a big case.

"If they break through with it, once they're on, they're like sharks … Once they get blood in the water, they go on a feeding frenzy," the prisoner said, according to the transcript made from the conversation.

"The more you do that, the more you open the door, they're sharks. They're f---ing rats and … they're just gunna keep f---in' thrashing around the waters till they get every drop of blood out of ya. That's why they call them Purana."

Defence counsel Stephen Shirrefs, SC, has said that Goussis was in Port Phillip Prison, on remand for an unrelated matter, at the same time as the quoted criminal in 2004. The criminal, who cannot be identified, has given evidence in the trial that Goussis was one of three men involved in the contract killing, and admitted shooting Moran.

In the September 29 taped conversation he urged Goussis not to help them or make statements.

Late in the day Detective Senior Constable Simon Hunt, formerly with Purana taskforce, said in court that no prison informers were implicating Goussis and the criminal in the Lewis Moran murder.

On May 1, 2008, the sister of Evangelos Goussis told the jury her brother was at home with their sick mother the night Moran was killed.

Goussis' sister today told the Supreme Court she saw him at their mother's Fairfield home at 6.30pm on March 31, 2004 - the exact time the prosecution says Moran was shot dead.

The court heard during cross-examination that his older sister Olga Vlahos (pictured) had originally told police she got home after 8pm, and found Goussis alone in the house.

On the day of the murder Goussis drove from his home in Geelong to say goodbye to his mother and a relative, who were leaving for a holiday in Greece, the court was told.

Ms Vlahos gave evidence her brother told her he was tired and would spend the day relaxing at their mother's.

She said her 79-year-old mother went blue and collapsed at the airport, and was taken to emergency at Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Ms Vlahos said her mother was discharged and she drove her back to Fairfield, arriving home about 6.25pm or 6.30pm to be greeted by Goussis, 40, who is accused of chasing and executing Moran while a second man guarded the door.

The court heard Ms Vlahos told police in a September 3, 2004, statement that she and her mother got home from the hospital between 8-8.15pm, and Goussis was there alone.

Prosecutor Andrew Tinney asked Ms Vlahos why her account had changed.

She replied the times were wrong in her statement because she wasn't given telephone records to refer to.

She did not know then what time Moran had been shot.

On May 6, 2008, Marcia Besalas, a niece of Goussis', told the jury she spoke to her uncle on the telephone minutes before he is alleged to have killed Lewis Moran.

Ms Besalas told the court Goussis answered the phone when she rang her grandmother's Fairfield house at 6.21pm on March 31, 2004, about the time Moran was shot dead.

Phone records show Ms Besalas rang from her home in Blackburn, with the call lasting more than three minutes.

She said she had learned her grandmother was unwell and wanted to find out her condition.

The court heard during cross examination Ms Besalas did not phone her grandmother's house again that night.

Ms Besalas said she could not remember why she did not make further contact, despite being worried about her grandmother.

Police prosecuter Andrew Tinney suggested she had not made the call at all.

Ms Besalas said she did, and denied that it was in fact her auntie Olga Vlahos she spoke to and not Goussis.

On May 14, 2008, the jury heard Goussis visited the Brunswick Club days before Moran's killing to have a beer, not to case the venue.

Stephen Shirrefs SC told the court security footage revealed Goussis' movements were "constituent with having a couple of beers" when he was there on March 24, 2004.

"He doesn't walk through and check it all out. He stays in the one location," he said.

But, in another video, the man who claims he was the getaway driver - and who the defence has argued committed the murder - can be seen "checking out every inch of the...layout", he said.

The prosecution had earlier suggested Goussis had visited the venue for a sinister purpose three times in the week before the shooting.

Mr Shirrefs played the video to jurors and told them it showed Gousis was not there "casing the place"

"If he went there to see were Lewis Moran was standing, h doesn't have to go inside the club. You could see him by looking in the windows," he said.

Mr Shirrefs then showed jurors footage from March 7, 2004, and asked them to look at the movements of the driver who was there with his wife.

"Try and picture what's going through his mind as he's standing there, takiong it all in. Checking that door at the back which could be used if , having shot Lewis Moran, he needs to get away quickly," he said.

"He's standing there looking at it all, four days before Lewis Moran is shot."

The court heard that during a police interview in 2006, the man originally said he was the person who killed Moran.

But he later changed his story, saying he was the getaway driver and Goussis was the shooter.