Gittany's Catholicism kept getting him off the hook until he killed:
Revealed: murderer Simon Gittany's history of violence
SIMON Gittany, who was yesterday found guilty of killing his fiancee Lisa Harnum, is the target of a new police investigation over business dealings he conducted with two methylamphetamine producers while defending the murder charge.
The Australian can now reveal the NSW drugs squad is investigating a series of suspicious payments between Gittany, who is also a convicted drug dealer, and Jamie Shaun Hijniakoff, 25, and British-born Christopher Stephen Jacques, 38 who have pleaded guilty to producing meth in a secret laboratory northwest of Sydney in 2011.
Gittany's violent criminal history can also be revealed, including how he partially bit off a policeman's ear while trying to evade arrest in 1994, and his bizarre plot to escape weekend detention in 2003 by jabbing himself with a syringe of hepatitis-infected blood.
Despite a string of violent offences, Gittany was never sentenced to full-time jail. He received periodic detention largely because of his conversion to Catholicism and stated desire to enter a seminary in France and ultimately be ordained a priest...
...With the murder trial now complete The Australian can report that while defending the murder charge, Gittany was an equal partner in a company known as Chemright, alongside self-confessed drug manufacturers Hijniakoff and Jacques.
The pair in February pleaded guilty to producing a commercial quantity of 3,4 methylenedioxyamphetamine - also known as Mandy, Sass or MDA - in a metal shed on a rural rental property at Tennyson, in the Hawkesbury region of NSW.
Police installed secret cameras in the laboratory while the pair were in China and subsequently captured footage of them producing the drug before raiding the property on August 8, 2011, a prosecution statement of facts read.
Company documents reveal Gittany, Jacques and Hijniakoff each controlled a one-third stake in Chemright when it was registered in May last year. It was deregistered ahead of the trial in July this year...
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