Career
Kinniburgh"s criminal record consisted of charges of wounding with intent to cause murder, escaping legal custody, dishonesty, racketeering, extortion, bribery, possession of firearms, escape, resisting arrest and assaulting police. Kinniburgh garnered notoriety for his role in the Melbourne gangland killings. On 13 December 2003, Kinniburgh himself was murdered outside his home in Kew on Belmont Avenue.
In 2004, Mick Gatto claimed that Veniamin had implicated himself in Kinniburgh"s death prior to himself being killed, but it was later shown that Veniamin had been on the other side of town at the time of the murder.
This was deduced by tracking his mobile phone at the time of the murder. However, this in turn has been disputed as a case of the mobile phone and not Veniamin having an alibi.
If Veniamin had been one of the two gunmen who killed Kinnisburgh, then the identity of the other has never been established. In November 2015, police charged Stephen John Asling with Kinniburgh"s murder.
Kinniburgh left the house shortly after 11pm to purchase cigarettes from a local store.
Upon his return 30 minutes later, Kinniburgh found Gangitano had been shot several times to the head Kinniburgh adopted a code of silence, frustrating police investigating the murder. Evidence was presented at an inquest that showed both Kinniburgh and Jason Moran were at the home of Gangitano on the night of his murder.
Both were exempted from giving evidence at the inquest on the grounds their evidence may incriminate them.
Kinniburgh"s blood was discovered at the murder scene and a witness had seen Moran leaving Gangitano"s house. In the drama series Underbelly he is portrayed by actor Gerard Kennedy and also reprises his role in the 2014 direct sequel Fat Tony & Company
