Simon Gittany went from unemployed petty criminal who bit policeman's ear to a business high-flyer Gittany guilty of murder Remarkable scenes unfold outside a Sydney court on Wednesday after Simon Gittany was found guilty of throwing his fiancee Lisa Harnum off a balcony in July 2011. PT1M54S http://www.smh.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2ya55 620 349 November 28, 2013 - 9:57AM In two decades Simon Gittany has gone from an unemployed petty crim biting police officers and living at home with his mother in Sydney's western suburbs to high-flying businessman who became an obsessive murderer. The shoe importer had been living the life of a high-flyer in a deluxe inner-city apartment but Fairfax Media can reveal that his trial for murder was not the first time the 38-year-old had been in trouble with the law. Simon Gittany leaving the NSW Supreme Court in July. He was found guilty of murder yesterday. After a number of run-ins with police during his teenage years, Gittany was sentenced to 2½ years' periodic detention in 1995 after he bit the ear of a senior detective who was trying to arrest him over stolen goods. Gittany was caught out the back of Lucky Lil's Tavern in Parramatta about 5.30 one morning in August 1993 with a number of items in his car. They included video recorders, a TV, a car stereo, a mobile phone, aftershave, a couple of gold rings and an orange and black bikini. When police asked where he had got the items, he said he and two others had bought the goods from someone in the pub for $200. Tragic ending: Lisa Harnum. Detectives later discovered all the items had been taken from a woman living in nearby Harris Park. When police went to Gittany's family home in March the next year, the then 20-year-old became violent when they tried to arrest him. He bit the ear of Detective Senior Constable Keith Bristow, severing it, and also attacked Constable David Burgess. Documents before the court at the time said Gittany's mother also attacked Constable Burgess. In July that year Gittany pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding the officer and to receiving stolen goods. He was sentenced to 2½ years' jail. Detective Senior Constable Keith Bristow who had his ear bitten by Simon Gittany during an arrest in 1994. In 2000, Gittany was in trouble again - this time in relation to drugs supply charges. He was found guilty in the NSW District Court and sentenced to three years' periodic detention until August 2004. In more recent times, Gittany had been involved in more honest pursuits. He had moved with his fiancee Lisa Harnum into a 15th-floor apartment in the luxury Hyde apartment block in the heart of Sydney's CBD. He had also started a women's shoe importation business, which ran the website ShoeCandy. It shipped shoes from the US and the website posted provocative photos of female models. Gittany's partner quit the business in October 2011, three months after Gittany threw Ms Harnum from their apartment balcony. He will be sentenced for her murder in February.