Goussis alibi can't be trusted: crown

Alibi evidence given for a man accused of shooting dead gangland figure Lewis Moran was a "desperate sham", a jury has been told.

Evangelos Goussis has pleaded not guilty to shooting Mr Moran dead at the Brunswick Club in Melbourne's north on March 31, 2004.

In his closing address, crown prosecutor Andrew Tinney said alibi evidence produced at the trial could not be relied on.

Among the alibi evidence, Goussis' sister Olga Vlahos changed key details in her police statement to say her brother was with their sick mother at the time of the killing.

Ms Vlahos told the court she saw her brother at their mother's house at about 6.30pm on March 31, 2004, which was about the time Moran was shot dead in the bar of the Brunswick Club.

In a statement to police on September 3, 2004, Ms Vlahos said she had not seen her brother between 12.30pm and about 8.15pm on the day of the shooting.

Mr Tinney said the alibi evidence was delivered by members of the Goussis family unable to tell the truth and was the culmination of a four-year campaign by Goussis to save himself.

"There's rarely been more of an unsatisfactory body of evidence put before a jury," Mr Tinney said.

"It's no more than a desperate sham set up by the accused to try and save his skin."

The court has previously heard the crown witness, a career criminal who cannot be named, was the getaway driver in the murder and that it was Goussis who shot Mr Moran with a .357 Magnum.

The witness told the jury the $150,000 contract was taken out by convicted murderer Carl Williams and drugs boss Tony Mokbel, and he shared the payment between Goussis and a third man.

The court heard the witness had been a close friend of Goussis prior to the murder and had paid substantially for "ratting" to police and breaking the underworld code of silence.

He said he had as a result lost the support of his friends and family and felt like a "broken man" who would never be safe from harm.

"He ratted on Carl Williams, he ratted on Tony Mokbel," Mr Tinney said.

"When he gave these names to taskforce Purana he was providing information of the highest order of importance."

Mr Tinney said there was no evidence the witness had gained personally from his disclosure, nor that he was lying.

As CCTV video footage of the shooting was played to the jury, Mr Tinney asked them to consider the speed and athleticism shown by the murderer.

He said such agility was consistent with Goussis' physique.

But he said it was not consistent with the physique of the crown witness, who the defence had suggested was the gunman.

The Supreme Court trial before Justice Betty King continues on Monday.