The Latest Breaking News from Bilal Hamze

A mystery man was behaving frantically and making phone calls when a major crime figure was gunned down outside a restaurant, a jury has heard.

A man was gunned down as part of a long-running feud between two rival criminal gangs that involves a number of public place shootings, a murder trial was told.

Sydney underworld figures have been registering stolen cars in the names of unknowing people before using them to carry out heinous crimes, police say.

The NSW Police Minister says the families of those involved in Sydney's unsolved gangland murders are refusing to talk, as detectives throw all their resources into investigating the crimes.

Some experts believe a difference between the underworld of yesteryear and modern gangsters is that they've become much less subtle. Instead of making enemies disappear, crooks are now happy to gun down rivals in front of their family and random bystanders.

Police say an alleged associate of the Alameddine family organised a botched plot to kill Mr Hamze in North Sydney last year, amid an escalating underworld war.