The wives and children of two underworld kingpins who were murdered at the height of Melbourne’s gangland war have changed their identities to disassociate themselves from the infamous Moran surname. Jason Moran’s twin son and daughter were in the backseat of his Mitsubishi van when a gunman shot him dead after a junior footy clinic in June 2003. Following their father’s death, Christian and Memphis, now aged 22, changed their surname in a bid to ‘protect themselves’, a family friend claims. Their mother Trish, who was married to Jason at the time he was murdered, joined the kids by dropping the Moran name. ‘Trish wanted to protect the kids. It’s a pretty famous surname around Australia then and now,’ a family friend said. Jason’s killing came three years after his brother Mark was gunned down in the driveway of his home in suburban Melbourne just metres from where his wife Antonella and kids Josh and Tayla were sleeping. Mark was shot dead by his drug rival Carl Williams – who pleaded guilty to the crime on the advice of his laywer Nicola Gobbo, who on Friday was revealed as the infamous ‘Lawyer X’ who was giving inside information to police… Read full this story
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