An Australian pensioner said to be a gangland kingpin has been jailed for 26 years for orchestrating the execution-style murder of her brother-in-law.
Des 'Tuppence' Moran was repeatedly shot in the head while he was drinking coffee in a busy cafe, in a plan organised by Judy Moran.
A court heard how the OAP, now 66 years old, acted as getaway driver during the crime.
She also stashed the gun that was used, along with a wig and jacket worn by Geoffrey 'Nuts' Armour, who she paid to pull the trigger.
Armour was also sentenced to 26 years while a second hit-man, Michael Farrugia, who testified against Moran, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed in December for four years.
Prosecutors argued that Moran's plan was motivated by an ongoing financial dispute with her brother-in-law, who she believed was swindling her out of millions of dollars.
Sentencing judge Lex Lasry condemned Moran's lack of repentance as he said: "This was a deliberate and brutal killing. There is of course no sign of remorse on your part."
A pale Moran expressed her shock and proclaimed her innocence upon hearing the judge's verdict.
Sitting in a motorised wheelchair, she shouted: "Sir, you are wrong. I am innocent."
The gangland war which began in the 1980s has claimed the lives of Judy's first and second husbands, Leslie 'Johnny' Cole and Lewis Moran, along with her two children, Jason and Mark.
Lasry told Moran that the personal tragedies made her involvement in the murder all the more perplexing.
Moran previously traded in her notoriety as a gangland 'black widow' with frequent television appearances portraying her family as unwitting victims of underworld violence.
The story Australia's gang war has since been dramatised in an Australian television series, Underbelly.
