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Authors: James Morton

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CHAPTER 10

p. 126

He was a great safe blower:
Brian Bourke,
Victorian Bar Oral History
, 10 October 2005.

p. 127

The judge, perhaps charitably:
Hugh MacMaster,
Mostly Murder 2
.

p. 128

When the wife expressed distress:
R v Murray
[2000] NSWCCA 159.

p. 128

When counsel asked how much:
Mick Gatto,
I, Mick Gatto
; Paul Heinrichs, ‘The Oldest Kid on the Block',
Age
, 13 May 2007.

p. 129

Throughout the trial, he denied:
Kidd v Chief Executive, Department of Corrective Services
(2000) QSC 405;
Robert Douglas Kidd v R
[2009] NSWCCA 229;
Kidd v R
[2014] NSWCCA 319; James Morton and Susanna Lobez,
Dangerous to Know
;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 5 July 2003;
Sunday Telegraph
, 12 December 2004; Kate McClymont, ‘“It takes a Crook to Catch a Crook”: How a Jailed Armed Robber Pursues His View of Justice',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 13 February 2010.

p. 129

The court decided that the evidence:
Kidd v R
[2014] NSWCCA 319.

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It's just paper—I think:
Janine Cohen, ‘Interview with Bernie Matthews' on
Four Corners
, 23 February 2004.

p. 132

His efforts to obtain compensation:
Steve Warnock, ‘Nine Months Behind Bars for a Robbery He Didn't Do',
Sun Herald
, 22 December 1991; Bernie Matthews, ‘How to Rob a Bank',
Bulletin
, 26 January 2006.

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Then, in April 2008, he was:
Dang v R & Matthews v R
[2013] NSWCCA 326;
Sun Herald
, 22 December 1991.

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The Director of Public Prosecutions:
R v Orchard and Sullivan
, [1992] QCA 106.

p. 135

Police in this State and:
‘“Jockey” Smith in Nowra: 10 Charges',
Canberra Times
, 15, 16 September 1977.

p. 135

The same month he was charged:
Age
, 17 December 1977.

p. 136

Francis Montgomery, who pleaded guilty:
Canberra Times
, 1 March 1979; 20 January 1980.

p. 137

He left the indelible impression:
Arjun Ramachandran, ‘How Bikie Peter Zervas Survived Hail of Bullets',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 31 March 2009.

p. 137

The killing was thought to be:
James Morton and Susanna Lobez,
Dangerous to Know
, pp. 267–8;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 5 July 2003;
Sunday Telegraph
, 12 December 2004.

p. 138

He could've used that mace rather:
Bryan Cockerill, ‘Tough Nuts 2'; John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Leadbelly
; John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Tough
;
Sydney Morning Herald
, 13 February, 13 June, 7, 8, 20 December 1992, 26 July 1994, 30 May 1998;
Sun-Herald
, 20 December 1992.

p. 138

An associate commented that:
Chris Murphy, ‘Inside Jockey Smith',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 December 1992.

p. 139

He thought fellow prisoner and:
John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Tough
.

p. 141

By then, Binse's container:
John Silvester, ‘Meet Badness, the Man Behind the Siege',
Age
, 23 May 2012.

p. 142

Justice Weinberg thought that:
Binse v The Queen
[2014] VSCA 329.

p. 142

This time, he was given leave:
Earlier in the year, in August, his long-time enemy Gavin ‘Capable' Preston had been sentenced to eleven years for killing drug dealer Adam Khoury, after pleading guilty to a charge of defensive homicide.

p. 142

On 26 February 2016 Binse:
Christopher Binse v Clive Williams (As Governor of HM Prison Barwon) and John Van Groningen (Correctional Services Commissioner of Victoria)
[1997] VSC 12;
Binse v The Queen
[2014] VSCA 329.

p. 143

His team, which over the years:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 30 January 2007.

p. 143

He was put on an identification:
New Straits Times
, 22 October 1980.

p. 144

No charges were ever brought:
Times
, 24 August 2006.

p. 144

At the time of his death:
Daily Telegraph
, 20 June 2001; Kate McClymont, ‘Slipping the Net',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 24 January 2007; Clive Small and Tom Gilling,
Smack Express
, p. 184
et passim
.

CHAPTER 11

p. 146

Cody received six years:
Age
, 17, 19, 20 August 1932.

p. 146

This meant that only after:
Maryborough Chronicle
, 5 December 1938;
Age
, 3, 21 December 1938.

p. 148

His appeal failed, and whether:
‘What Happened to the £28,985 Which Vanished?',
Mirror
(Perth) 14 August 1954.

p. 149

Standing slightly apart from the others:
Brian Hansen,
The Awful Truth
.

p. 149

Turner had a diamond in his front tooth:
Tom Prior,
The Sinners' Club
.

p. 149

Now Turner was warned that:
Argus
, 19 July 1952.

p. 151

He was killed when his car:
Mike Ryan and Don Greenlees, ‘Joey Stays One Jump Ahead',
Sunday Press
, 5 September 1982.

p. 151

He died in 2014, aged:
Brian Carroll,
Hurry Back, An Illustrated Centenary History of Mayne Nickless
, Mayne Nickless, Melbourne, 1986.

p. 152

Before he left Australia, he supplied:
Mark Buttler and Andrew Rule, ‘Inside Melbourne's Perfect Heist',
Herald Sun
, 1 May 2016.

CHAPTER 12

p. 158

When there is nobody else, where do you go?
Barbara Toner, ‘Redemption of the Angel of Death',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 6 July 1990.

p. 159

She never even gave up the:
Peter Hansen, ‘Angel of Death's Wild Times',
Sunday Mail
(Brisbane), 23 February 2003.

p. 159

Meeting the quieter ones in these:
Adrian Tame,
Deadlier than the Male
; Julie Wright,
Angel of Death
.

p. 160

Described by the judge as a:
R v Kleehammer, Larraine (sic) Ann
[1968] VicSC 230; ‘15 Years Gaol for Man, 30',
Sun
, 5 September 1968.

p. 161

It was this case that led:
Nicholas Cowdery, ‘Where Did I Leave My DNA?', Annual DPP Solicitors Conference 2002;
Canberra Times
, 4 October 1986, 26 October 1989.

p. 161

Detective Walsh had also:
Re Maston, Brett Ronald
[1984] VicSC93.

p. 162

What this amounted to in real:
R v Maston
[1998] VSC 221;
Age
, 30 November 1995. For Maston's subsequent career, see James Morton and Susanna Lobez,
Gangand, North South & West
.

p. 163

Although she was not bound:
Festa v R
[2000] QCA 73; [2001] HCA 72; Bernie Matthews, ‘DNA and the Justice Game',
Griffith Review
, Edition 4.

p. 164

In 2000 Parr pleaded guilty:
Age
, 19 May 2000.

p. 164

The papers were happy:
Newcastle Herald
, 17 October 2008.

p. 165

The Court of Appeal:
Jorgensen v The Queen
[2010] VSCA 171.

p. 166

She received a minimum sentence:
R v Ridden
[2016] NSWDC 2.

p. 167

Arnott's calculated that $22 million:
Gold Coast Bulletin
, 27 April 2002.

p. 167

When she later found a minder:
Mark Russell, ‘Mother Jailed for Taking Toddler on Armed Robbery Spree',
Age
, 27 April 2012.

CHAPTER 13

p. 168

In August 2008 Kurrle pleaded:
Courier Mail
, 17 August 2008.

p. 169

Shore received a minimum of five:
R v McDonald
[2003] VSCA 137;
Age
, 30 April 2002.

p. 170

Some escapees might disagree:
Nigel Hunt,
The First Police Union
; John Silvester and Andrew Rule,
Tough
; ‘Police Let Wanted Man Off the Hook',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 13 January 1982;
Advertiser
, 12 September 1983; Patrick McDonald, ‘Life and Crimes of Colin Creed',
Advertiser
, 11 April 1996.

p. 172

In 2012 two of his plays:
Ross Honeywill,
Wasted
.

p. 173

MacDonald indicated that he did:
Australian
, 6 February 1998; John Silvester, ‘Bandit Who Became Dead Man Walking',
Age
, 10 October
1998; John Silvester, ‘In Identity Crisis, We'll Always Have Paris',
Age
, 22 February 2014.

p. 175

We will never forget him:
Ronald Morley,
Greybeard
.

p. 176

In 2008 he died in a hospice:
R v Nylander
[2003] SASC 89, 191;
Sunday Mail
(Adelaide), 3 February 2008.

p. 177

For this, he received another three months.
R v Beale
[2003] QCA 373.

p. 177

Their guns and disguises had been sent to Perth Airport.
R v Clune & Gergis
[1999] SASC 45.

p. 178

In May 2003 he received a relatively modest nine years.
Gold Coast Bulletin
, 30 August 2002.

p. 179

The judge was told:
Age
, 25 August 2015.

p. 180

Hardly more successful:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 October 2015.

p. 180

She had already:
Anthony Prince, ‘Bank Robbery for Beginners',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 22 October 2005.

p. 182

Nor was the judge:
Guardian
(UK), 11 July 2013.

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