Bow and arrow killer Richard Leonard - Stephen Dempsey Murder

Forensic Investigators - Stephen Dempsey

Richard Leonard: In one of Australia's most bizarre murders, murdered Stephen Dempsey in 1994 then him and his girlfriend murdered a taxi driver.

About Abe Saffron

Abraham Gilbert (Abe) Saffron (6 October 1919 - 15 September 2006), was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century.

For several decades, members of government, the judiciary and the media made repeated allegations that Saffron was involved in a wide range of criminal activities, including illegal alcohol sales, dealing in stolen goods, illegal gambling, prostitution, drug dealing, bribery and extortion. He was charged with a range of offences including "scandalous conduct", possession of an unlicenced firearm and possession of stolen goods, but his only major conviction was for tax evasion.

He gained nationwide notoriety, earning the nicknames "Mr Sin", "a Mr Big of Australian crime" and "the boss of the Cross" (a reference to the Kings Cross red-light district, where he owned numerous businesses).

He was alleged to have been involved in police corruption and bribing politicians. Saffron always vigorously denied such accusations, however, and was renowned for the extent to which he was willing to sue for libel against his accusers.

Saffron was born in Annandale in 1919, of Russian Jewish descent. He was educated at Annandale and Leichhardt primary schools and at the highly prestigious Fort Street High School. Although his mother hoped he would become a doctor, Saffron left school at 15 and began his business career in the family's drapery firm in the late 1930s. He enlisted in the Australian Army on 5 August 1940, and reached the rank of Corporal before being discharged 4 January 1944. Saffron did not serve overseas.

About Mario Condello

Mario Condello (12 April 1952 – 6 February 2006) was an Italian-Australian criminal. Condello, a lawyer, was a part of the Carlton Crew, and a key figure of the Melbourne gangland killings. In the drama series Underbelly Mario Condello is played by actor Martin Sacks

Condello was a former lawyer born in Melbourne, Australia. He had a criminal record consisting of arson, fraud and drug trafficking and was also suspected by police to have been involved in multiple murders. In 2005 he was charged with plotting to murder crime boss Carl Williams, who also faced charges of scheming to ambush Condello.

He was shot dead in his driveway on 6 February, 2006, a day before he was due to stand trial for conspiracy to murder Williams. Police feared that his murder would be the resumption of the gangland wars. Six hundred mourners attended his funeral, with Mick Gatto serving as a pallbearer, his murder remains unsolved.

Gatto and Benji - story on A Current Affair

A story that featured on A Current Affair after Mick Gatto was acquitted and released from prison for shooting dead Andrew Benji Veniamin

The Melbourne underworld war- Abc stateline special

Mark "Chopper" Read interview on "Sunday"

Chopper interview with the "Sunday" television show about being a retired criminal

Carl Williams - Day of Reckoning - Doco

This show was meant to be for the series "Families of crime"  but was brought forward the night Carl Williams was killed

About Mark Moran

Mark Anthony Moran (4 July 1964 – 15 June 2000) was a criminal of the infamous Moran family from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, notable for its involvement in the illegal drug trade and the Melbourne gangland killings. Moran was murdered outside his Aberfeldie home, allegedly by Carl Williams, just after 8 pm on 15 June 2000, aged 35.


Mark Moran was the son of Judy Moran and Leslie John "Johnny" Cole, who was shot dead in Sydney on 10 November 1982 during drug-related gangland wars while working for crime boss Frederick "Paddeles" Anderson. His stepfather was criminal Lewis Moran and his half-brother was drug trafficker Jason Moran, both also murdered. In the drama series Underbelly Mark Moran was played by actor Callan Mulvey.

Corrupt underworld cop gets 7yrs in prison

A former Melbourne drug squad detective,once regarded as one the states most respected and highly decorated officers,has been jailed for a maximum of 7 years today in court for trafficking drugs to gangsters and an outlaw motorcycle gang. Former Det Sgt Wayne Strawhorn was sentenced over his role in using an informer to sell 2 kilo's of drug chemical psudoephedrine to murdered gangland figure Mark Moran. Though its not mentioned in the report,Strawhorn also made another deal using an informer to traffick more of the chemicals to a drug cook for the Bandidos bike gang. Straworn still maintains his innocence over the charges,and has always denied being involved in the drug deals.

Victoria's Armed robbery squad disbanded

Members of the Victorian police force and the police association were outraged today at Christine Nixon and Simon Overland after the high profile and elite Armed Offenders squad (aka armed robbery squad) was disbanded from the force. The move has created an even worse split within the Victorian police force,with the union threatening industrial action over the decision. The squad was raided by officers from the Ethical standards department (E.S.D) earlier this year over allegations of assults and bashing suspects. Senior police are outraged over the disbanding,which was the result of complaints of a drug-addicted armed robber who is responsible for several armed robberies in which shots were fired and a store owner pistol whipped. The armed offenders squad is considered the most decorated and successful unit in Victoria's police force history. During the 80's and 90's it was also the most feared,with some suspects even admitting to armed holdups rather than risk being raided by members of the squad

Des Moran

Desmond "Tuppence" Moran, the brother of Lewis Moran, had publicly claimed to be out of the criminal business. On 17 March 2009 at about 8.50pm (AEDT), he was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt outside his home in Langs Road, Ascot Vale. As he sat in his car, a single bullet struck the steering wheel and was deflected from the driver. Moran was in the passenger seat, and witnesses claim to have seen the would-be killer fleeing immediately after firing the single shot.

At about midday (AEST) on 15 June 2009, Moran was shot dead outside the Ascot Pasta and Deli Cafe on Union Road in Ascot Vale. On 16 June, Desmond Moran's sister-in-law Judy Moran and three others were arrested for his murder. Those arrested allegedly include Suzie Kane, sister-in-law of Judy Moran's deceased son, Jason Moran. Judy Moran and Kane were subsequently charged with being an accessory after the fact


Des Moran Gunned down in ascot vale

Carl Williams appeals his life sentence

The real king of the Cross

Story by Bridget McManus

BEFORE Bob Trimbole and John Ibrahim, before George Freeman and Terry Clark, there was an Australian underworld figure with a story so dirty and so colourful it could span several Underbelly seasons. The original ''Mr Sin'', Abe Saffron, recently featured on an episode of Nine's Australian Families of Crime and an ABC documentary, Mr Sin, screens this week.

Perhaps his relatively recent surfacing in the current stream of true-crime television specials is because even four years after his death, certain people still aren't talking about the man who ruled Kings Cross from the 1950s.

''Police officers in particular wouldn't talk because they feel the story is still alive,'' says the writer and director of Mr Sin, Hugh Piper. ''I really tried with the NSW police force and I can't help but feel I was fobbed off.''

Underbelly team behind telemovie based on model Caroline Byrne's death

(The Daily Telegraph April 18, 2009 )

Model's death subject of script Father has made journal available Underbelly team writing telemovie

THE creative team behind TV phenomenon Underbelly is busy writing the script for a telemovie based on the death of Sydney model Caroline Byrne, more than 13 years after the event.

Convinced his daughter was pushed and didn't jump from the top of The Gap in Sydney on June 7, 1995, Tony Byrne made available his personal journal for the haunting made-for-TV movie, which details his pursuit of Caroline's killer.

With the working title of The Killing Of Caroline Byrne, Underbelly executive producer and Screentime Australia director Des Monaghan says Mr Byrne's intimate memoirs will be coupled with author Robert Wainwright's book of the same name for the telemovie.

While Monaghan was keeping casting details close to his chest, it is expected the telemovie, commissioned by Channel 10, would begin filming as early as June.

However, this depends on an appeal by Gordon Wood, Caroline's boyfriend who was convicted of her murder and sentenced to 17 years jail in November.

Ten's chief programming officer David Mott said with Underbelly giving viewers a taste for crime, it was time to bring a "very Sydney story" to the small screen.

Underbelly takes on cop killers

Underbelly takes on cop killers: by Darren Devlyn From: Herald Sun

THE cameras will begin rolling this week on Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, the emotion-charged story of the killing of policemen Rod Miller and Gary Silk.

Developed by Screentime, producers of ratings juggernaut Underbelly, the Channel 9 telemovie will explore, in vivid detail, how Bandali Debs and his young accomplice Jason Roberts carried out the horrific crime in Moorabbin in 1998 and how police made their stunning breakthrough in the case following an exhaustive investigation.

The telemovie, the first of three Underbelly telemovies to be filmed this year, will feature former Home And Away regular Paul O'Brien as Sen-Constable Miller and Daniel Whyte as Sgt Silk.

Head of the investigation detective Supt Paul Sheridan will be played by former A Country Practice and Flying Doctors star Brett Climo, while another former Home and Away actor, Todd Lasance, has signed to play detective Sgt Dean Thomas.

Cast in the roles of the killers are Greg Stone (Debs) and Dimitri Baveas (Roberts). Debs' wife Dorothy is being played by former Neighbours regular Annie Jones and the role of Miller's widow, Carmel Arthur, has been won by ex-Blue Heeler Jane Allsop.

The telemovie will reveal how, on a cold Saturday night in August 1998, Silk and Miller were shot dead in a street as they staked out the Silky Emperor restaurant.

They were investigating armed robberies in an operation police dubbed Hamada.

The Lorimer Taskforce nailed Debs and Roberts after two years of investigation.

Work will later begin on Infiltration, a telemovie chronicling the story of Victorian cop Colin McClaren, who risked his life by infiltrating the local arm of the Calabrian mafia.

The third Underbelly film, The Man Who Got Away, recounts the tale of British-Australian drug smuggler David McMillan.

(Picture) - Actor Brett Climo is one of the stars who will begin filming for the new Underbelly telemovie.

Walsh Street police shootings

The Walsh Street police shootings was the 1988 murder of two Victoria Police officers, Constable Steven Tynan, 22, and Probationary Constable Damian Eyre, 20. The officers were responding to a report of an abandoned car when they were gunned down at 4.30am in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Australia on 12 October 1988.
Four men, Victor Peirce, Trevor Pettingill, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy were charged with murder and later acquitted by a jury in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Two other suspects, Jedd Houghton and Gary Abdallah, were shot and killed by Victoria Police before being brought to trial.

In 2005, Wendy Peirce, widow of accused Victor Peirce, gave an interview to media detailing how her late husband had planned and carried out the murders and was actually guilty as charged
On 11 October 1988, Peirce's best friend, Graeme Jensen, was shot and killed by police in Narre Warren.
Jensen had been under observation by the Victoria Police Armed Robbery Squad, who had planned to arrest him in connection with a murder. When detectives attempted to effect the arrest, one of the police cars was delayed in traffic, allowing Jensen to attempt to escape. Police shot and killed Jensen at the scene

Victor Peirce

Victor George Peirce (11 November 1958 – 1 May 2002) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Peirce was a member of the Pettingill family, headed by matriarch and former Richmond brothel owner Kath Pettingill.

In 2005, Peirce's widow, Wendy Peirce gave an interview to Australian media detailing how her husband planned and carried out the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings, a crime for which he was acquitted by jury along with three accomplices after she failed to give truthful evidence in court

Peirce was shot dead in a car parked opposite the Coles supermarket in Bay St, Port Melbourne on May 1, 2002.

Victor Peirce's funeral was held on May 9, 2002, at the Saint Peter and Paul's Parish Church in South Melbourne. Father Bob Maguire conducted the service. Peirce was later buried at the Altona Memorial Park. Present was Jason Moran, former running mate of slain gangster Alphonse Gangitano. Moran was a suspect in the murder of Alphonse Gangitano, who was shot dead in his Templestowe home on January 16 1998.[2]

On June 22, 2007, Victoria Police arrested Faruk Orman in the western suburb of Sunshine in connection with Peirce's murder.

In September, 2007, Vince Benvenuto- son of Frank Benvenuto, an underworld identity reputedly under the protection of Victor Peirce, murdered May 2000, was arrested for drug trafficking. The Age reported that when asked whether he was arrested as a result of the Purana investigation police replied: "He's a suspect in relation to the murder of Victor Peirce. But it was Hitman Andrew 'Benji" Veniamin who shot dead Pierce, Benji Claimed "If I don't get Victor he'll get me first". The man who drove Benji to the Hit on the gangland figure was Found guilty in 2009. Veniamin was later killed in 2004 by Domenic "Mick" Gatto. Gatto claims it was self defence.

Blue Murder - Miniseries - Neddy Smith, Roger Rogerson

Blue Murder is a two-part Australian television miniseries produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, and is based on true events. Given its confronting content, the DVD release was classified MA 15+. An injunction brought during Arthur Smith's appeal against his life sentence saw its broadcast delayed in NSW and the ACT for six years, until 2001. In New Zealand the DVD release was classified R18 for graphic violence and offensive language.

Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between controversial former detective Roger Rogerson and notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith. Rogerson and his colleagues were accused of giving Smith the "green light" to commit crimes without police interference, with the relationship fraying when Rogerson orders hitman Christopher Dale Flannery to murder policeman Michael Drury. The murder of prostitute Sallie-Anne Huckstepp also features.

Blue Murder is narrated by the characters of Rogerson, Smith and Drury and focuses on the corruption allegations that plagued the NSW Police Force at the time. Rogerson and Smith achieved a kind of celebrity during the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption.

About Jason Moran

Jason Matthew Patrick Moran (22 September 1967 – 21 June 2003) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, and a member of the Moran crime family, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. He sported a 12 cm scar on the side of his face. In the drama series Underbelly Jason Moran is played by actor Les Hill.

Moran was the son of Lewis Moran and Judy Moran. Mark Moran was his half-brother. Moran attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. He met his future wife, Trisha Kane, at 15 years of age. She is the daughter of Les Kane, a Melbourne Painter and Docker and reputed criminal who was murdered in his family home on 19 October 1978.

During the 1990s Moran emerged as one of Melbourne's main dealers in party drugs. During this time he had a team of up and coming western suburbs gangsters led by Bluey Watkins and Toofie Abudul running drugs for him.

Moran was reported to have shot Carl Williams in the stomach during an argument in Gladstone Park on 13 October 1999, giving rise to lengthy violent turf wars known as the Melbourne gangland killings. Jason Moran had attended the funeral of another slain mobster, Victor Peirce.

Alphonse Gangitano and Moran, along with associate Mark John McNamara, were charged over an attack in the Sports Bar nightclub in King Street, Melbourne, on 19 December 1995, for which Moran received a term of imprisonment.
Moran was considered by many to be a "dead man walking" and when paroled from prison in September 2001 was allowed to leave Australia due to fears for his life. He later returned to give evidence in the inquest into the death of Gangitano on 20 November which began on 14 January 2002. Moran was suspected in Gangitano's murder.Gangitano was found dead in the laundry of his Templestowe house by his wife in 1998. A coroner found that Jason Moran and Graham Kinniburgh were present during Gangitano's murder in January 1998.





re-enactment scene of Jasons murder on the series "Underbelly" (no audio)

Benny Serrano v Andrew Veniamin Kickboxing & Radio documentary

Benny Serrano v Andrew Veniamin



Andrew Benji Veniamin - Radio documentary

Chopper Read on Dino Dibra & Andrew Veniamin

Chopper Read taliking on Dino Dibra & Andrew Veniamin

Schapelle Corby

Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian woman convicted and imprisoned in Indonesia for drug smuggling.

Corby is serving a 20-year sentence (for which she has received approximately five months in remissions) for the importation of 4.2 kg (9.3 lb) of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia. She was convicted and sentenced in Bali on 27 May 2005 by the Denpasar (Indonesia) District Court and currently serves her sentence in Kerobokan Prison, Bali. On appeal, her conviction and sentence were confirmed with finality by the Indonesian Supreme Court. No further legal manoeuvres on her part are possible; she may petition for clemency from Indonesia's president, but would have to admit guilt to do so.
Corby has maintained from the time of her arrest that the drugs were planted in her boogie board bag and that she did not know about them. Her trial and conviction were a major focus of attention for the Australian media. Her due release date, with remissions, is currently 12 April 2024

About John Wayne Glover & Doco - No More Grannies

John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was a British-born Australian serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore. Over a fourteen month period in 1989/90, Glover killed six elderly women for which he became dubbed "The Granny Killer". Following arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He hanged himself in prison on 9 September 2005.

Originally from a working class family in Wolverhampton, England, Glover was convicted of many petty crimes dating back to 1947 for stealing clothing and handbags. He was later thrown out of the British army when these were discovered. Later, he emigrated to Australia in 1956.[2] where he first lived in Melbourne. He had a troubled relationship with older women in his life, especially his mother Freda (who had had several husbands and many boyfriends), and after 1968 his mother-in law, when he married and moved into his parent-in-law's house in Mosman, Sydney.
Before John Glover began his killings in the late 1980s, he was a volunteer at the Senior Citizens Society, and was considered among his friends a friendly, trustworthy man. He was married with two children, and lived a contented lifestyle in Mosman. Glover worked as a sales representative for Four 'n' Twenty Pies.

Shortly after immigrating from England to Australia, Glover was convicted on two counts of larceny in Victoria, and a stealing charge in New South Wales. In 1962 he was convicted on two counts of assaulting women in Melbourne, two counts of indecent assault, one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and another four counts of larceny. For this he received a three year good behaviour bond.

These attacks were reported to be extremely severe and on each occasion certain articles of clothing had been removed. The victims were forced to the ground while he violently tore their clothing. A 25-year-old woman was on her way home from a meeting at about 10:30 pm when she was followed and chased down a dark suburban street. The attacker knocked her to the ground unconscious. Later she awoke in a garden bleeding profusely and her undergarments in a state of disarray. The attacker made a run for it when her screams alerted residents. At the time of these offences, Glover was employed as a television rigger for the ABC and lived in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell.

About The Claremont Murders & Doco

The Claremont serial murders is the case of the unsolved murders of two young Australian women and the unresolved disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

All three women disappeared in similar circumstances after attending night spots in Claremont, leading police to suspect that an unidentified serial killer was the offender.

The case began with the disappearance of Sarah Spiers, 18, on 26 January 1996, after her leaving a nightclub in the centre of Claremont. Her disappearance was described by her friends and family as being out of character and attracted massive publicity. Spiers had apparently called a taxi from a phone booth but was not present when the responding vehicle arrived. Her fate remains uncertain.

Some months later, on 9 June 1996, Jane Rimmer, 23, disappeared from the same part of Claremont. Her body was found in bushland near Woolcoot Road, Wellard, in August, 1996.

The Anita Cobby Murder & Doco

Anita Lorraine Cobby (2 November 1959 – 2 February 1986) was a 26-year-old Australian registered nurse and beauty pageant winner. She was abducted from Blacktown, and raped and murdered at nearby Prospect, on the evening of 2 February 1986. Five men, including three brothers, ( John Travers, Michael Murdoch and Les, Michael, and Gary Murphy ) were convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be released.

Anita Lorraine Lynch was born on 2 November 1959. She met her future husband, John Cobby, while studying for her nursing degree. They married on 27 March 1982. At the time of her murder, though, the couple had separated and Cobby was living with her parents in Blacktown, New South Wales.


On the day of the murder, Cobby finished work at Sydney Hospital at 3pm and met friends for dinner in Redfern, Sydney. She then caught a train from Central Station to Blacktown Station. Aside from her killers, only two witnesses saw her after she left the train - a young brother and sister who witnessed the abduction taking place. Their older brother upon return home was told and unsuccessfully attempted to chase after the car.

About Ivan Milat & Doco

The Backpacker Murders is a name given to serial killings that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres south west of the New South Wales town of Berrima. Five of the victims were international backpackers visiting Australia, and two were Australian travellers from Melbourne. Ivan Milat was convicted of the murders and is serving seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years.

The events depicted in the 2005 Australian horror film Wolf Creek were loosely based upon his crimes

On 20 September 1992 a group of orienteers discovered a decaying corpse while orienteering in the Belanglo State Forest. The following day, police constables Roger Gough and Suzanne Roberts discovered a second body 30 metres from the first. Early media reports suggested that the bodies were of missing British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, who had disappeared from the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross in April 1992. However a German couple, Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied, had also disappeared from the Kings Cross area sometime after Christmas, 1991 and Simone Schmidl, also from Germany, had been reported missing for more than a year. It was also possible that the bodies were of a young Victorian couple, Deborah Everist and James Gibson, who had been missing since leaving Frankston in 1989.

Lockdown - Casuarina Prison Western Australia - Doco

Lockdown - Prison Documentary

Casuarina Prison is the main maximum security prison for Western Australia, located near Perth. The prison accommodates minimum, medium and maximum security prisoners and was opened in 1991 to replace Fremantle Prison. The prison featured in the documentary, Australia's Hardest Prison: Lockdown Oz on the National Geographic channel in 2008, following the lives of prisoners and guards.

Doco on Casuarina Prison - Western Australian

About Roger Rogerson

Roger Caleb Rogerson (born January 3, 1941) is a controversial former detective-sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force. Rogerson was convicted of perverting the course of justice and lying to the 1999 Police Integrity Commission. He was one of its most decorated officers, having received at least 13 awards for bravery, outstanding policemanship and devotion to duty including the Peter Mitchell Trophy, the highest annual police award.

Rogerson is also known for his association with other NSW detectives who are reputed to have been corrupt, including Ray "Gunner" Kelly and Fred Krahe, and with a number of organised crime figures, including Arthur "Neddy" Smith, Graham "Abo" Henry, Warren Lanfranchi, Robert Arthur "Bobby" Chapman, Paul "The Paddy" O'Halloran, John Tex Moran, and Christopher Dale Flannery. Neddy Smith was a convicted heroin dealer, rapist and armed robber who has claimed Rogerson gave him the "green light" to commit crimes in New South Wales. Henry and Lanfranchi were also heroin dealers and armed robbers, while Flannery specialised in contract killing.

About Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read & interviews

Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (born 17 November 1954) is an Australian ex-convict, author and celebrity. He is also a recording and performance artist. The 2000 film Chopper was based on his life.

Mark was a notorious underworld criminal hustler and violent standover man.

Quote from Mark "

I am Mark Brandon Read, but most characters like to call me "Chopper." There are a few obscure theories as to how I got my nickname, some reckon it is from an old cartoon, some say it is because I use to cut off the toes of others, while there are those that say it is because I had someone cut my ears off in jail. Maybe they are all right! Maybe they are all wrong! Who really cares.
For the record, it is because someone cut my ears off when I was in Melbourne's elite bluestone college - more commonly known as Pentridge. For some insane reason, some upstanding members of that institution were out to hurt me. I summoned all my manners to politely suggest to the screws that I be transfered from H division. They declined and said there was no way I would be getting a transfer, so I made the simple decision that ears off = transfer. Believe me, it works.
Note - For those that think this webpage is going to cover all the little intricate details and stories of my love, that I have told in my book...keep dreaming. If you want to know details about my life and why I am what I am, I suggest that you buy my books. I haven't busted my hump for hour upon hour just to shoot myself in the foot now and give it all to you for free. No, no, no, that would be quite ridiculous. Instead, this site will be my initial foray into the cyberworld. Here I can sell products and provide you with details of what is happening in my immediate life. It is my international address, my very own "Chopper command centre" if you will.

Now the Chopper movie is another little fable which in principle resembles my life. It is a mixture of fact and fiction and at times a bit of friction, but one character from that movie does exist. His name is Nevile Bartos. Now I have known Neville for 25 years. Neville has saved my hide numerous times and without doubt if he hadn't been around, I wouldn't either. I know that Melbourne has its hard and tough men, as does every other place in the world, but this man is the "THE KING". Now Neville is an Albanian and for those of you with a little knowledge about war, you would know that the Russians for many years, used Albanians as their assassins. These people are totally loyal and totally dangerous. Let's just say Neville is no exception.

Neville "gold shoes" Bartos, what an old chestnut. I don't want to step on any toes , but as the name suggests this man has done to attire, what Jack the Ripper did to late night shopping. I mean, any more gold on this mans shoes, and it would be Australia's second goldrush. I don't know to whom he poses the greatest threat, to certain individuals or to the fashion industry. His fashion sense, shoes particularly, are...well.....interesting to say the least!  '  end Quote
"

Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read 1992

Brenden Abbott The Postcard Bandit

Brenden James Abbott (born 8 May 1962 in Footscray, Melbourne) is an infamous Australian bank robber known as the Postcard Bandit. During his criminal career he is believed to have stolen as much as AUD$5 million from a number of banks, though very little of this money has ever been recovered. He is currently detained in the Woodford Correctional Centre and is often moved between this facility and the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre.


He has escaped from custody several times using various means. On 24 November 1989, Abbott made uniforms that resembled prison guards' at Fremantle Prison assisting his escape, and in 1997 he escaped with four other dangerous criminals from Sir David Longland Prison in Brisbane, under a hail of gunfire from an external accomplice, after sawing through cell bars and cutting through four external perimeter fences.

A film about Abbott, The Postcard Bandit, was made for television by Nine Films/Pacific Coast Entertainment in 2003 and released on DVD on 22 March 2005.

Abbott has been on the run three times, for six months in 1986/1987, most famously as Australia's Most Wanted Man from 1989-1995 (five and a half years), and from 1997-1998 (six months). He was eventually caught in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1998 and is presently serving a 23 year sentence in Queensland for bank robbery and the 1997 prison escape. After serving two years of his current sentence in solitary confinement, he sued the Queensland Government for mistreatment. He was released from solitary confinement in May 2004, but was returned there on a Maximum Security Order in April 2006. Abbott had requested medical attention three times in 12 months, which the authorities deemed suspicious and an indication he was plotting another escape.

Dubbed the Postcard Bandit, media reports in the 1990s said that Abbott sent postcards of his travels to the police who were chasing him. But the "postcard bandit" story was a media invention; the "postcards" were photos from a holiday Abbott took with another prison escapee, Aaron Reynolds, in 1989/1990, including an infamous picture of Reynolds outside the Dwellingup police station in Western Australia. While Reynolds was arrested within weeks, Abbott went on to establish himself as a professional fugitive, using self-taught skills in make-up to create convincing disguises, computers to create false IDs, electronics and weapons to dodge alarms and rob banks. His five and a half years on the run came to an end when police tracked down a post office box on the Gold Coast, Queensland used by Abbott, which was found to contain a pager bill registered to the address where he was living. He was arrested outside a Darwin laundromat without incident.

It is expected that when his current sentence has been completed, he will be handed over to the North Australian authorities where he has time to serve on prior convictions as well as facing other charges including escaping legal custody, armed robbery and impersonating corrections staff. In 2004 Queensland authorities approved the transfer, but Western Australian Attorney-General Jim McGinty refused to accept him.

Further charges are also pending in South Australia for armed robbery and other offences.

In early 2007, Abbott re-applied to be transferred to Western Australia, approved by the Queensland Government. A decision is pending.

Abbott has also applied to the South Australian Government to quash a warrant for his arrest over a 1994 bank robbery, insisting that failure to execute it is an abuse of the judicial process. He argues he is facing a life sentence because he cannot serve his sentences concurrently. South Australian Police Minister Paul Holloway said he is waiting on a decision from the Director of Public Prosecutions with regard to any possible extradition proceedings

About Carl Williams & Carl Williams interview with Derryn Hinch on 3aw

Carl Anthony Williams (13 October 1970 – 19 April 2010) was a convicted murderer and drug trafficker from the Australian state of Victoria. He was the central figure in the Melbourne gangland killings.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years for ordering the murders of three people and conspiracy to murder a fourth (which was unsuccessful). On 19 April 2010, Williams died while incarcerated at Barwon Prison after being beaten to death with part of an exercise bike by another inmate.

Williams enlisted the help of others willing to perform the contract killings in exchange for large payments of cash. At the time of his death, he was in the maximum security Acacia unit of HM Prison Barwon near Geelong. Williams would have been 71 before he was eligible for parole.

Williams was portrayed by Gyton Grantley in the 2008 television series Underbelly, based on the events surrounding the Melbourne gangland wars from 1995 through to 2004


Williams attended Broadmeadows West Technical School, leaving in Year 11. He was married to convicted drug trafficker Roberta Williams (born 23 March 1969),[5] with whom he had one child, Dhakota (born 10 March 2001). Williams held various labouring jobs before opening a children's clothing store in partnership with his wife, which eventually failed.
On 25 November 1999, Williams, along with his father, George and another associate, was arrested and charged with drug trafficking after a raid on a Broadmeadows illegal drug factory. In excess of 250,000 amphetamine tablets were seized by police, estimated to be worth up to $20 million.

Williams, who described himself as a semi-professional gambler, was banned from the Crown Casino complex on 2 April 2004 by police commissioner Christine Nixon under the Casino Control Act.

On 13 October 1999, Williams was shot in the abdomen by Jason Moran because he owed the Morans thousands of dollars. This event gave rise to a lengthy underworld war known popularly as the Melbourne gangland killings.
Mark Moran was shot on 15 June 2000 after arriving at his luxury home in Aberfeldie. Williams was due to stand trial for his murder, but the charge was dropped when he pleaded guilty to other murders.

Jason Moran and associate Pasquale Barbaro were shot dead sitting in Moran's car at a football club in Essendon, on 21 June 2003. Williams ordered two associates to carry out the murder. The location of the shooting was reported to be behind the Cross Keys Hotel in Strathmore, Victoria. The murder was witnessed by six children aged 6 and under.

Mark Mallia was an associate of murdered underworld criminal, Nik Radev. At 8.05 am on 18 August 2003 a fire was reported in a stormwater drain in Sunshine. Fire brigade members attending to the fire recovered a wheelie bin containing the remains of a charred body inside, later identified as Mallia.

Marshall was shot outside his luxury South Yarra home in front of his five-year-old son on 25 October 2003.

Lewis Moran was shot dead in the inner-city Brunswick Club on 31 March 2004. Williams pleaded guilty to his murder.

On 28 February 2007, Williams pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria to the murders of Lewis Moran, his son Jason Moran and Mark Mallia (whose name was initially suppressed by the court).

Williams also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder gangland rival Mario Condello. A suppression order prevented the media from reporting this until the day of sentencing.[10] Under a deal with police, Williams was not charged for his alleged involvement in orchestrating the murder of Mark Moran, Jason Moran's half brother.

It was also revealed that Williams was serving a sentence of 21 years for the 2003 murder of Michael Marshall. The outcome of this trial had previously been suppressed.

On 19 April 2010 News Limited newspapers including the Herald Sun revealed that Victoria Police are paying $8000 in school fees for Williams' daughter. The reason for the payment has not been disclosed.Williams' lawyer Rob Stary said Williams was upset about the publication of the story.


There was speculation that the police may have agreed to pay the school fees in exchange for information, and that publication of the story may have led to Williams' death. The Herald Sun has defended its publication of the story.

On 19 April 2010, Williams died from head injury while incarcerated at Barwon Prison. It appears that he was struck with part of an exercise bike by another inmate, who has since been charged with murder. He cannot be identified because of a suppression order.


Williams' funeral was held on 30 April 2010 at St Therese's Catholic Church in Essendon.





Carl Williams interview with Derryn Hinch on 3aw

About Mick Gatto & Hinch interview

Domenic "Mick" Gatto (born 6 August 1955) is an Italian-Australian former heavyweight boxer, who once was a serious contender for the Australian Heavyweight title. He is better known for his involvement in the Melbourne underworld.

Gatto is a professional mediator within the building industry in Melbourne. He runs a chain of companies, Arbitrations and Mediations Pty Ltd and has an interest in crane company, Elite Cranes.

Previously residing in East Doncaster, Gatto purchased a A$2 million home in Lower Plenty on October 2005. In June 2007 Gatto's nephew Daniel Gatto pleaded guilty to three assault charges in relation to a fight that occurred on 2006-12-24 in front of a Prahran nightclub. In the drama series Underbelly based on the Melbourne gangland killings Gatto is played by actor Simon Westaway, and in series 2, Luke McKenzie.

In 2004 Mick Gatto was charged with the murder of suspected underworld hitman Andrew Veniamin and remanded in custody for 18 months. He was found not guilty at trial, during which Gatto claimed he had acted in self defence after Veniamin pulled out a .38 and threatened to kill him. Gatto claims that during a struggle he was able to turn the gun around on Veniamin and fire one shot into his neck, and one shot in the eye. He also claimed that during the argument, Veniamin had implicated himself in the deaths of Dino Dibra, Paul Kallipolitis and Graham Kinniburgh.


Hinch v Gatto Full Radio Interview

Police Corruption

Australian Story - Simon Illingworth - The Underbelly

Simon Illingworth is a former member of the Victoria police in Australia. He served in many different roles throughout his time in the force, but his most significant contribution was with the Victoria Police Ethical Standards Department (the Victoria Police version of Internal Affairs) where he helped weed out and prosecute corrupt police officers.

After retiring from the force he has written a book about his experiences entitled "Filthy Rat", selling 9,000 copies before being out of print in 2007. He also appeared on "Australian Story"  in May 2004 to tell his unique story and offer insight on the Melbourne underworld and police corruption.

Due to the upsurge of interest in the 1995-2004 gangland war in Melbourne sparked by the recent Australian Underbelly TV series, publisher Fontaine Press has re-released "Filthy Rat" in May 2008.

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Australian Story - Simon Illingworth - The Underbelly

Badfellas - Documentry on the Melbourne Gangland War

Badfellas - Inside the Melbourne underworld war

 Great doco that looks deep into the Melbourne gangland underworld wars