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It was alleged in court that Williams ordered the hit in retaliation for being shot in the stomach by one of the Moran brothers in 1999.

A court was told alleged underworld figure Carl Williams ordered that criminal Jason Moran be murdered on the anniversary of the killing of his half-brother Mark Moran.

Williams allegedly wanted Jason Moran to be shot on June 14, 2003. Mark Moran had been gunned down outside his Aberfeldie home on June 15, 2000.

However, it is alleged the plan failed after Williams' purported accomplice, Alfonso Traglia, failed to identify Jason Moran at a junior football clinic on the intended day of the murder.

A week later, on June 21, 2003, Williams' co-accused Victor Brincat allegedly shot Moran and Pasquale Barbaro as the pair sat in a van with 10 children after attending an Auskick football clinic at the Cross Keys Reserve on Pascoe Vale Road, Essendon North.

Williams, Brincat and Traglia appeared in a committal hearing at Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with the men's murder.

Williams and Brincat are also charged with the murder of hot-dog vendor and drug dealer Michael Marshall in South Yarra on October 25, 2003.

The two gangland murder hearings are being held simultaneously because the case against the three accused relies on the evidence of supergrass Mr X.

In January Mr X was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years' jail for his involvement in Marshall's murder.

The court also heard that Mr X had provided Purana taskforce detectives, investigating underworld murders, with a statement connected to the murder of Mark Moran. Williams was charged last month with his murder. Mr X told police he had driven Williams to and from an area close to Mark Moran's home on the night of the shooting.

Notorious bank robber, Hugo Rich was charged with one count each of murder, armed robbery, going equipped to steal and three counts of theft of a motor vehicle after security guard Erwin Kastenberger, was shot dead during an armed robbery at the Blackburn North shopping centre.

Kastenberger, 58, was killed while making a cash delivery from a Chubb armoured van.

It is alleged Kastenberger and a colleague were approached by two armed men and Rich shot Kastenberger dead.

Kastenberger, from Cockatoo, east of Melbourne, was shot in the head at close range after his killer told him to lie on the ground.

Witnesses said he appeared to lose his balance or trip as he ran from the bandits who fled with $162,000. They said one walked over and shot him in the head.

Carlton identity Mick Gatto's Supreme Court murder trial commenced today

He admitted shooting Andrew ''Benji'' Veniamin twice in the neck and once in the head.

He insisted he was acting in self-defence after Veniamin produced a gun and threatened to kill him.

Gatto said he thought he was a "dead duck" as they struggled for the gun, with the first of five shots fired narrowly missing his face.

Accused drug dealer, heavy and "plastic gangster" with heavy connections.

Old associates of Templeton agree with family members that his dark past probably caught up with him. "What do you expect? He was a standover man," a retired gang member says told The Sunday Age. "He used to rip off drug dealers. That sort of shit comes back at you sooner or later."

Fiancee and partner of more than six years, Robyn Lindholm is a long-time stripper who works under the name of Colette.

Lindholm was once a girlfriend of Alphonse Gangitano and had been seeing him up until the time he was killed.

Templeton, when he was known as Teazis, was named at the 2001 inquest into the murder of exotic dancer Shari Davison, who disappeared in 1995.

Her body has never been found.

Judy Moran abused at Brunswick Club

When Judy Moran visited the Brunswick Club, the scene of her husbands murder, two men screamed abuse at her.

They called her a dog, accused her of being a police informer and said they would slit her throat.

Rodney Robinson, 53, of Epping, and Robert Gillick, 35, of Greensborough, were arrested and both later pleaded not guilty to several charges, including making threats to kill and recklessly threatening serious injury.

Ms Moran told later told a court that she now knows how her husband felt when he was murdered, because in the club there was no where to run.

The pair were later jailed.

Brendan Schievella was drinking with an acquaintance Ivanhoe Hotel in Melbourne when a group of men, some wearing Hells Angels colours, walked in and abducted him.

Three star Carlton footballers, Lance Whitnall, Nick Stevens and Heath Scotland, were drinking with Schievella in the upstairs Ruebar when the incident happened.

It is believed the players said they were associates of the victim but did not consider him a close friend. They said they had no idea why he was attacked and abducted.

Witnesses said the man was beaten and then forced into a car and driven away.

The badly beaten victim was taken to the Austin Hospital the next day. Doctors had to amputate one of his toes, which was mangled - probably with a set of bolt cutters. Schievella's father Mike "Lucky" Schievella, 44, and partner, Heather McDonald, 36, were murdered in their St Andrews home in 1990. The pair, who were known drug dealers, were bound and their throats slashed. The murders have never been solved.

Brendan Schievella's uncle, Thomas Schievella, was arrested by the National Crime Authority in 1986 and sentenced to six years' jail for drug trafficking. Mr Schievella is known to have links with several members of the underworld.

Boris Beljajev, 54, of Balaclava is alleged to have killed Alexandra Ristic 52, in Balaclava.

Mr Ristic was found by passers-by in Sycamore Grove.

It is believed a male aged in his 40’s wearing a light coloured trench coat approached two males sitting on a brick fence outside units on the corner of Glen Eira Avenue and Grosvenor Street in Balaclava.

Detectives believe that these men then had an argument.

It appears that the two men then left the area in a four wheel drive vehicle.

Approximately 30 minutes later a man matching the description of the man in the trench coat was seen leaving the area where Alex Ristic was killed.

Alex Ristic was seen with a female before the stabbing.

Beljajev was remanded in custody and will next appear in court in March 2006.

Ristic was linked to Boris Beljajev, the man acquitted after Victoria's longest and costliest criminal case.

Ristic was believed to be a suspect in a series of society burglaries in the Toorak area during the 1980s.

In December 1987 Operation Ashcan commenced, targeting Boris Beljajev and associates for suspected heroin trafficking.

One of these associates was Alex Ristic who was arrested on September 19, 1988.

On February 15, 1989 Ristic got a discounted sentence of four years, with a minimum of two years and three months.

Two days later Boris Beljajev was arrested.

Gatto freed

After seven weeks of trial, eight hours' deliberation and 14 months in custody , Mick Gatto was acquitted on charges of murdering Andrew 'Veniamin, the jury accepting that the killing was in self-defence.

The trial ended in cheers, applause and squeals of delight when a Supreme Court jury acquitted the Carlton identity.

Several jurors appeared distressed and shed tears after bringing in the not guilty verdict.

Wendy Peirce breaks silence

The Age published a story in which Wendy Peirce said she lied to save her husband from a life in prison.

The star witness who refused to testify against four men charged with the Walsh Street ambush murders of Constables Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre admitted that Victor Peirce was guilty as charged — 17 years after the murders that changed the way police around Australia perform their duties.

She said the murders were carried out as as a payback after detectives killed Peirce's best friend, Graeme Jensen, during a botched arrest in Narre Warren a day earlier.

Mrs Peirce named the shooters as Jedd Houghton, who was later shot dead by police, and Peter McEvoy.

She also said the car abandoned in Walsh Street was stolen by Gary Abdallah, who was shot dead by police in a Carlton flat.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Age Mrs Peirce said:

■ Melbourne hitman Andrew Veniamin killed Victor Peirce's best friend, Frank Benvenuto, in May 2000 as a payback for an earlier underworld murder. She said Veniamin and Peirce held peace talks in which her husband agreed not to seek revenge for the death of his friend.

■ Melbourne solicitor Tom Scriva laundered money for gangsters but squandered it before he died in July 2000. She said she once gave him $120,000 in armed robbery proceeds hidden in plastic shopping bags.

■ A fortune in drug money buried around Richmond by her brother-in-law, Dennis Bruce Allen, who died in 1987, has never been recovered.

■ When her husband discovered she had a sexual relationship with Graeme Jensen, he said: "If I had known about the affair I wouldn't have done it (Walsh Street)."

■ She routinely went on $5000 shopping sprees using money from her husband's bank robberies. "We wasted it all … I'd buy things just for the sake of it," she said.

Victor Peirce's son shot

Victor Peirce jnr, 24, was shot under the armpit and also suffered head injuries during an alleged fight with the brother of his de facto wife in Boronia.

The incident was allegedly as part of an ongoing family feud.

He underwent emergency surgery that night.

Jude Matthew Quinn, 27, of Scoresby Road, Boronia, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court the following day.

He was charged with the attempted murder of Mr Peirce.

Quinn, dressed in a multi-coloured jumper and tracksuit pants, was also charged with intentionally causing serious injury and with possessing an unregistered long-arm firearm.

Nick Goodenough, for Quinn, said his client would not make an application for bail. Magistrate Lesley Fleming remanded Quinn to appear in January.

Wendy Peirce said her son had been shot after a dispute with Quinn. "They had been feuding for years.

"I can't believe this has happened," Mrs Peirce said. "I want justice done for my son.

"Victor (junior) is not a career criminal. He hasn't been in jail, he hasn't even been in a boys' home. When is this all going to end?"

Caine's killers guilty

Keith Faure and Evangelos Goussis were found guilty of Lewis Caine's 2004 murder.

Trial starts into Caine shooting.

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 Evangelos Goussis, 38, were arrested and pleaded not guilty to the murder.

Zarah had relationship with Mokbel - police

Detective Sergeant Andrew Stamper told the Supreme Court of underworld lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson's "professional and non-professional" relationship with drug lord Tony Mokbel, adding: "Mokbel is arguably the leader of a major criminal enterprise in this city, your honour."

Zarah guilty

Underworld lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson was found guilty of contempt of court after refusing to answer questions in the trial of Keith Faure and Evangelos Goussis.

The two gangland figures were accused of murdering her boyfriend Lewis Caine.

Antonio Sergi Shot

Sergi was shot as he sat in his car just 400 metres from the Moonee Ponds police station.

He staggered into the arms of police after he was shot in the chest and both arms.

Sergi, 32, of Sydenham, was in a stable condition in hospital, having driven himself to the police station after being shot in The Strand, on the edge of Queens Park, about 1.20am.

He was due to appear in court over ecstasy importation charges.