Three notorious Sydney gangland brothers have spent the first night of their decades long prison sentences behind bars.
Farhad Qaumi, 34, and his two brothers Mumtaz, 32, and Jamil, 25, received lengthy prison terms on Friday for their role in a fatal and "violent underworld rampage".
Farhad, the gang leader of the Blacktown chapter of Brothers 4 Life was jailed for a minimum of 43 years and a maximum of 60 for his part in the rampage and the contract murder of debt collector Joseph Antoun.
Mumtaz and Jamil were jailed for at least 36 years and 21 years respectively.
The brothers were found guilty by a jury of numerous offences mainly related to five shooting incidents between October 28 and November 28, 2013, beginning with the manslaughter of Mahmoud Hamzy.
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After being warned Mohammed Hamzy had taken out a contract on Farhad Qaumi, three gunmen went to the Hamzy house but mistakenly shot dead his cousin, Mahmoud.
A 14-year-old girl was among those injured in the other shootings, with doctors unable to remove all the shotgun pellets left in her body.
"Two men are dead and it is pure good fortune that more people were not killed," Justice Peter Hamill said while sentencing the brothers.
"Many people were exposed to the gangland and gun violence instigated by the offenders."
