Business student Abuzar Sultani and mate Siar Munshizada's three murder convictions can be revealed after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal on Thursday lifted suppressions covering the case.
The men, aged 32 and 33, were active and high-ranking members of a Rebels bikie gang chapter when they set about their murderous rampage across Sydney in 2016.
Rebels enforcer Michael "Ruthless" Davey, described by his father last week as the victim of a "cowardly aggressive and sickening" murder, was shot dead in the driveway of his home in Kingswood on March 30, 2016.
Munshizada's sentence hearing was told the motive for the execution may have been a contract killing or to eliminate a rival.
"You abandoned Michael on the footpath, where he drew his last breath," William Davey told Munshizada in the NSW Supreme Court.
"Like the rats to rotten cheese, you scurried away to your vehicle."
Next up was Comanchero associate Mehmet Yilmaz, gunned down at close range on September 9, 2016.
The pair waited in a car until Yilmaz emerged onto Brisbane Street in St Marys, approaching him and firing at him.
Mr Yilmaz's partner was a metre from him when he was shot and has been left with "lifelong, debilitating effects ... so profound as to amount to an aggravating circumstance", the Crown submitted.
While Munshizada has argued he was a "foot soldier" under Sultani's spell and duped by the younger man's facade as a successful businessman, the Crown says he was really Sultani's lieutenant who saddled up for a third execution in November 2016.
Pasquale Barbaro, a Sydney mafioso whose namesake cousin was executed alongside Jason Moran in Melbourne in 2003, was shot as he stepped into his Mercedes in Earlwood on November 14.
Munshizada was again at the wheel, this time of a stolen Audi. According to the Crown, his driving was "precise" as the back seat of the Audi aligned with the front window of Barbaro's Mercedes, before backseat passenger Joshua Donald Baines fatally fired into his target.
While the first shots would have been fatal, Barbaro ran and was shot again, falling face-first into the street.
"The level of culpability is so extreme that the community interest ... can only be met with life imprisonment," the Crown said of Munshizada's crime.
Sultani and Munshizada were arrested about a fortnight after Barbaro's murder, which was the eighth in a string of fatal shootings across Sydney in two years.
Sultani pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in 2019 while Munshizada was found guilty of the three murders after jury trials in 2020 and 2021.
Baines, 29, and Mirwais Danishyar, 28, were acquitted of Mr Yilmaz's murder this year but found guilty of Barbaro's murder.
The quartet, who are all in custody, is due to be sentenced on Friday by Justice Desmond Fagan.
Suppressions on the cases, which had been in place to protect the integrity of each trial, were lifted on Thursday despite opposition from the killer quartet.
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