Australian underworld matriarch was found guilty of orchestrating the execution-style murder of her brother-in-law as he enjoyed his daily coffee at a busy suburban cafe in Melbourne.

An Australian underworld matriarch was found guilty of orchestrating the execution-style murder of her brother-in-law as he enjoyed his daily coffee at a busy suburban cafe in Melbourne.
Judy Moran, a 66-year-old grandmother, was convicted over the slaying of Des "Tuppence" Moran who died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head in Melbourne in June 2009, in a case police described as too far-fetched for television.

The former underworld enforcer, shot at noon at close range by two gunmen in balaclavas, was from a family that played a key role in a gang war for control of the city's drugs trade that claimed 30 lives between 1995 and 2006.

Judy Moran, who uses a motorized wheelchair, had already lost her husband Lewis and two sons Mark and Jason in the Melbourne gang war, which was dramatized in the hit Australian series Underbelly, likened to US show The Sopranos.

She subsequently traded on her notoriety as a gangland "black widow" with television appearances portraying her family as unwitting victims of underworld violence.

She has not yet been sentenced.

It was alleged during the trial that she plotted with a gunman to kill her 61-year-old brother-in-law over a financial dispute and that she drove the getaway car to and from the murder scene.

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