An underworld murder trial jury has been discharged after a judge found extending deliberations further into a fourth week would only be delaying the inevitable.

Acting Justice Robert Allan Hulme discharged jurors sitting on the NSW Supreme Court trial of Samuel John Rokomaqisa today after he found there was no possibility of them reaching a decision.

Rokomaqisa pleaded not guilty to murdering Hamze crime family boss Bilal Hamze in June 2021 as well as conspiring to murder younger brother Ibrahem Hamze and assaulting an elderly man during a carjacking.

The jury entered its fourth week of deliberations on Tuesday, having retired to consider verdicts on September 23.

But the foreperson told Acting Justice Hulme yesterday there was no likelihood of reaching even a majority 11-to-one verdi

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