Four arrested over Des Moran murder

Underworld matriarch Judy Moran has been charged over the murder of her slain
husband's brother.
The flamboyant widow of Lewis Moran faced court on Tuesday charged with being an
accessary after the fact in the murder of her brother-in-law Desmond "Tuppence"
Moran.
Another woman, Suzanne Kane, the 45-year-old sister-in-law of Moran's assassinated
son Jason, of Ascot Vale, faced the same charge as they fronted an out-of-sessions
hearing of the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Geoffrey Amour - one of two men arrested on Tuesday in country Victoria - has been
charged with murdering Des Moran, who was gunned down in a crowded cafe near his
Ascot Vale home on Monday.
Amour, 43, of Ascot Vale, earlier faced the Portland Magistrates Court in western
Victoria, where he was remanded in custody. He's expected to reappear in the
Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.
The second man was taken into custody at Myrniong in central Victoria. He is yet to
face court.
As he announced the arrests, Victoria police assistant commissioner Dannye Moloney
rejected any suggestion that Mr Moran's murder was a new chapter in Melbourne's
gangland wars, which have claimed at least 25 victims since 1998.
He said the arrests had come as a result of inquiries into an attempt on Mr Moran's
life in March.
In that incident, a gunman fired a bullet through the windscreen of Mr Moran's car
in the driveway of his home.
Mr Moran, who would normally have been driving, was in the passenger seat at the
time. A friend in the driver's seat escaped injury after the bullet hit the steering
wheel.
"This investigation evolves from the March incident," Mr Moloney told reporters.
"As a result of that it led us to a timely response in the resolution of this matter."
A witness to Monday's murder said he saw Judy Moran, 64, whose husband Lewis and
sons Mark and Jason were all killed in the gangland wars, race to the scene within
15 minutes of the shooting, screaming "Dessy, Dessy".
Mr Moloney said police were convinced the murder was not (not) gangland related.
Lewis Moran, 58, was gunned down by two men in the front bar of a club in Brunswick
in March 2004.
A year earlier, Jason, 36, was shot while in a van at a children's football clinic
alongside associate Pasquale Barbaro, who was also killed while five children sat in
the back seat.
In 2000, Jason's half-brother and Lewis's stepson Mark Moran, 36, was shot dead
after getting out of his car outside his home.