Jason Matthew Patrick Moran
20 September 1967 – 21 June 2003) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, and a member of the Moran crime family, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. He sported a 12cm scar on the side of his face. In the drama series Underbelly
Jason Moran is played by actor Les Hill.
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Early life
Moran was the son of
Lewis Moran and
Judy Moran.
Mark Moran was his half-brother. Moran attended
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. He met his future wife, Trisha Kane, at 15 years of age. She is the daughter of Les Kane, a Melbourne
Painter and Docker and reputed criminal who was murdered in his family home on 19 October, 1978.
[1]
Moran was reported to have shot
Carl Williams in the stomach during an argument in
Gladstone Park on 13 October 1999, giving rise to lengthy violent turf wars known as the
Melbourne gangland killings.
[2] Jason Moran had attended the funeral of another slain mobster,
Victor Peirce.
Alphonse Gangitano and Moran, along with associate Mark John McNamara, were charged over an attack in a nightclub on 19 December 1995, at the Sports Bar nightclub in
King Street, Melbourne [3] for which Moran received a term of imprisonment.
Moran was considered by many to be a "dead man walking" and when
paroled from prison in September 2001 was allowed to leave Australia due to fears for his life. He later returned to give evidence in the
inquest into the death of Alphonse Gangitano on 20 November which began on 14 January 2002. Moran was suspected in Gangitano's murder.
[4] Gangitano was found dead in the laundry of his
Templestowe house by his wife in 1998.
[5] A coroner found that Jason Moran and
Graham Kinniburgh were present during Gangitano's murder in January 1998.
Murder
Pasquale Barbaro and Moran were gunned down on 21 June 2003 at a
football junior football clinic in
Essendon, where they had been watching Moran's young children. On returning to their motor vehicle they were shot dead.
[6] Police feared that the murders would lead to further violence in the
Melbourne underworld war.
[7] Father Joe Giaccobe, a friend of the Moran family performed Moran's funeral.
During the service another priest, Father Joe Martins said:
"Any funeral presents a challenge. Obviously, the church does not make judgments about the person. They need the prayers and whatever the church can do for them", he said. "They have to answer to God. We will not deny them"
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Moran's father,
Lewis Moran was unable to attend the service due to incarceration at
Port Phillip Correctional Centre. Authorities refused Moran's request to allow him to be released from prison to attend the service. Lewis Moran was later murdered while drinking in a
Brunswick bar.
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References
- Silvester and Rule, 2004 ''Leadbelly'', p. 130 (ISBN 0975231804)
- Silvester and Rule, op cit, p. 131
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Silvester and Rule, op cit, p. 129
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Silvester and Rule, op cit, p. 40
- Silvester and Rule, op cit, p.32
- Football routine killed a gangster
- Moran shooting believed to be part of underworld war
- Silvester and Rule, ''Leadbelly'', 2004, page 173, ISBN 0975231804