Murdered bikie's sister stares down killer

The sister of a Lone Wolf bikie murdered in Sydney more than two years ago has given a harrowing victim impact statement in court.

The sister of a murdered Sydney bikie has stared down her brother's killer in court and told him the pain of losing her sibling rips her heart to pieces every day.

Elizabeth Dimoski's brother, Lone Wolf motorcycle gang member Neal Todorovski, was shot dead in broad daylight by Tarek Abdallah in the southern Sydney suburb of Sans Souci in January 2012.

Abdallah, 27, was found guilty of murder in March but not guilty of shooting with intent to murder Mr Todorovski's associate John Leger.

He had pleaded not guilty to both offences on the basis he had acted in self-defence.

At Abdallah's sentence hearing on Thursday, Ms Dimoski delivered a harrowing, and at times graphic victim impact statement.

She fixed her eyes on Abdallah, who sat expressionless in the dock, and told him his "heartless and dangerous actions" had destroyed the lives of those who loved Mr Todorovski.

"(They) left me feeling like I, too, was there lying on that cold, hard ground alongside my brother, with both our brains and our blood pouring out of our heads and our bodies," she said at the NSW Supreme Court.

"The only difference is my brother's pain died with him that day. But me? I still feel that pain like brain-shattering bullets going through my head and my heart, ripping it to pieces every day.

"All because you were angry."

Ms Dimoski clenched and unclenched her fists as she spoke, stopping on multiple occasions to compose herself.

After her statement, she left the courtroom and could be heard crying outside as Abdallah's barrister David Dalton SC argued his client had acted in self-defence.

Mr Dalton told the court Abdallah unleashed a "volley of shots" in fear for his life.

The court had previously heard Mr Todorovski and Mr Leger had come to Sans Souci with knuckle-dusters and a gun and had been out to get Abdallah after the 27-year-old's attempts to patch up a misunderstanding failed.

But crown prosecutor Paul Leask said Mr Todorovski was first shot twice in the back by Abdallah and fell to the ground.

Abdallah then put a bullet through his skull, he said.

He said the victim was still alive when ambulances arrived.

Mr Leask appealed for Justice Stephen Campbell to consider in his sentence the "callousness" of Abdallah's crime.

Justice Campbell will hand down his sentence next month.


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