At about 12.30 am on 24 May 2020, a man referred by the NSW
Supreme Court as DPD and four other men, DJD, EE, Murdoch and
Shillingsworth, were driving towards the home of Kevin Kourtis,
which was located on Langton Street in the Sydney suburb of Quakers
Hill.
Over recent months, DPD had been frequenting this house and had
even gotten into disputes with Kourtis over the price of the drug
ice.
With the lower halves of their faces concealed, the five men
gained entry via knocking at the door then forcing their way in.
DPD was the first in, and he was holding "a .22 calibre 250
Remington savage model repeating bolt action rifle", whilst an
accomplice was carrying a 30 cm-long knife.
