Although he lived in an area which is more the haunt of doctors, lawyers and stockbrokers, Kinniburgh drove a second-hand Ford Falcon, the car he drove home on the night he was shot dead in December 2003.

Although he could afford imported suits, Kinniburgh mostly preferred the casual clothes of an off-duty dock worker, but in middle age he had acquired some expensive tastes and was a regular at the exquisitely expensive Flower Drum restaurant in Melbourne's Chinatown.

In 1994 Kinniburgh's son married a girl from a well-to-do Melbourne family.

The reception was held at the prestigious Rippon Lea.

One of them was Lewis Moran, who along with his son Jason and step-son Mark were murdered in the underworld war.

Kinniburgh was also close to Mick Gatto (left) and Alphonse Gangitano.

When he was interviewed by police Kinniburgh was uncharacteristically tongue-tied.

He would do nothing to draw attention to himself.

In an opening address to the inquest, Mr Jeremy Rapke, QC., identified Kinniburgh and Moran as suspects in the murder.

"Very considerable suspicion attaches not only to Graham Kinniburgh but also to Jason Moran in relation to the murder of Gangitano," Mr Rapke said.

Kinniburgh left blood at the murder scene and associate Jason Moran was seen leaving the house that night by a witness.

Mr Kinniburgh's blood was found on a banister inside the house and his skin was found on a dent on the front security door.

Among the evidence pointing to Mr Kinniburgh's possible involvement, Mr Rapke said, were small amounts of DNA recovered from the house after the murder.

That material matched the DNA profile of Mr. Kinniburgh, he said.

Jeremy Rapke, QC, assisting the coroner, said evidence strongly suggested Mr Kinniburgh was present during the murder but fled quickly to set up his alibi.

On August 24, 2001, seven men and were arrested and faced charges involving the possession and trafficking of amphetamines, ecstasy, ephedrine, cocaine, hashish and LSD.

Those arrested included millionaire businessmen and drug baron, Tony Mokbel and Lewis Moran.

Drug squad and Australian Federal Police intelligence suggested Mokbel, Lewis Moran Kinniburgh, were involved in importing three tonnes of hash and that the trio were to split the profits.

On January 14, 2002, the inquest into Gangitano shooting hit a wall of silence as the two prime suspects were excused from giving evidence.

Jason Moran and Graham Kinniburgh were exempted by the coroner on the ground they might incriminate themselves.

The two men refused to give evidence to the coroner.

Their lawyers claimed the evidence would incriminate them.

Legal representatives said there was no evidence implicating the pair in the murder.

"You don't have to be guilty to claim the privilege against self-incrimination," said Mr Kinniburgh's lawyer, Tony Hargreaves.

Mr Rapke outlined a police scenario in which Mr Kinniburgh spent at least 30 minutes at Gangitano's house before Moran arrived armed with a .32 calibre handgun after 11pm.

Gangitano tried to flee into the laundry as Mr Moran fired at him with a small pistol, hitting him three times, Mr Rapke suggested.

In the police scenario, Mr Kinniburgh bumped his elbow trying to flee the house and left his DNA on a screen door.

He ran upstairs to check he had not been recorded on Gangitano's elaborate security system, leaving his blood on an upstairs banister, and then went to a nearby service station to set up his alibi before returning.

Immediately after the shooting, Mr Kinniburgh rushed to a nearby convenience store, where he was filmed by a security camera and thus acquired an alibi, Mr Rapke said.

Mr Moran, meanwhile, left the house.

Mr Rapke said there were gaps in the evidence against Mr Moran and Mr Kinniburgh, but said it was "good enough" to implicate them.

He conceded the quality of the evidence meant Mr West could not "make a positive finding that either Kinniburgh or Moran fired the shots that killed Gangitano.

Few were prepared to honour Alphonse Gangitano's memory by turning up for the findings of his inquest on January 25, four years and 10 days after his murder.

Deputy coroner Iain West found that both were in Gangitano's home at the time of his shooting.

But the coroner could not say who pulled the trigger.

Homicide squad detectives were preparing a fresh report for the Office of Public Prosecutions to consider whether there are new grounds to lay charges.

Neither of the prime suspects were in court, but it might be said that Mr Moran did have a representative to put his case - his mother, Judy.

Judy Moran said her son was a beautiful boy who had been set up by the police.

"Was he framed?"

"Of course he's framed by the police, like he's always been framed."

"He had nothing to do with this?"

"He was home, he was home. The police know. They had a bug in the roof ... they know where he was. They couldn't produce the papers.

In early 2003 amphetamine dealer and murderer Carl Williams was putting most of his time into hunting down his arch enemy Jason Moran.

On October 25, 2002, Lewis Moran (right), Kinniburgh's close friend and the father of Jason Moran, was was arrested as part of Victoria's biggest drug sting.

He was charged with offences relating to the investigation into the $2 billion drug ring allegedly run by Tony Mokbel.

Kinniburgh's home was also raided but no charges were laid.

Kinniburgh was killed just after midnight by a lone gunman when he parked in Belmont Avenue.

He had walked about six steps from his car towards his driveway when he was confronted by the killer.