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Authors: James Morton

CHAPTER 14

p. 183

It has also to be said:
Zandt, Clinton R., ‘Suicide by Cop', National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.

p. 183

Eighteen-year-old Joseph Swan:
Argus
, 29 August 1930.

p. 184

Western ended up ‘as riddled as Swiss cheese'.
Duncan McNab,
The Dodger
.

p. 185

However, it is possible Smith:
Abo Henry,
A Treacherous Life
; Stephen Gibbs,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 17 September 2005.

p. 185

He reached for a pistol and was shot:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 3 April 1985.

p. 186

In May 2006 a coroner ruled:
Paula Doneman and David Murray, ‘Police Kill Serial Bandit',
Courier Mail
, 20 October 2002.

p. 186

At the time of his death, he was wanted for robberies:
Andrew Rule, ‘The Man with a Double Life: Ian Turner, The Country Bandit' in
Outside the Law
.

p. 188

At the time of his death, he was suspected:
John Silvester, ‘Fatally Flawed: The Death of Graeme Jensen',
Age
, 4 January 2003.

p. 189

The actual robbers are now alleged:
Tom Noble,
The Walsh Street Killings
; Adrian Tame,
The Matriarch
; Mark Read,
Chopper from the Inside
.

p. 190

As Detective Constable Stephen Canellis:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 13 July 1984.

p. 191

The Court of Appeal disagreed:
R v Noble v Verheyden
[1994] QCA 283; Fiori Rinaldi commenting on
R v Fletcher
, (1980) 4 Crim. L. J.

p. 191

They were refused leave to appeal.
R v Cole
[2004] QCA 109;
Gold Coast Bulletin
, 22 March 2005.

p. 191

At the time of the robbery, veteran lawyer:
Herald Sun
, 13 July 2011.

CHAPTER 15

p. 192

At the relatively low end:
Courier Mail
, 16 October 2012.

p. 194

At the time of the Lang robbery:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 27 October 1985;
Age
, 21 April 1988.

p. 194

He had claimed the sentence:
R v Mackley, Neville Graham
[1988] VicSC 404;
R v O'Garey, Leon James
[1988] VicSC 651.

p. 194

In the meantime:
Canberra Times
, 8 October 1987.

p. 195

After surgery to reattach his fingers:
Australian Story
, ‘When a Stranger Calls', Part 2, 3 April 2006.

p. 195

As other types of targets:
Carlene Frost and Mark Morri, ‘Home invasions the new “fad”',
Daily Telegraph
, 27 March 2012.

p. 196

Given that there are conflicting:
Perth Now
, 23 February 2016.

p. 196

While at first this was a sneak-thief:
Herald Sun
, 15 March 2016.

p. 196

Justice Philip McMurdo said although:
R v Pryce
[2016] QCA 43; Geoff Egan, ‘Machete Attacker Has Plea for Shorter Jail Term Rejected',
Sunshine Coast Daily
, 2 March 2016.

CHAPTER 16

p. 197

There is now CCTV:
Janet Fife-Yeomans, ‘Screaming Tyres and Sawn-off Shotguns',
Daily Telegraph
, 13 April 2013.

p. 197

The car was found soon afterwards:
Age
, 23 October 1987.

p. 198

Kovacs was identified as a known:
‘The Robber Crushed to Death',
Daily Telegraph Mirror
, 23 July 1991.

p. 198

Despite a reward of £1000:
Sydney Morning Herald
, 14 April 1945.

p. 198

They are defined by the risk-to-yield:
Lance Smith and Erin Louis, ‘Cash in Transit Armed Robbery in Australia',
Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
, No. 397, Australian Institute of Criminology, July 2010.

p. 199

Upon his departures, he would:
Tange v The Queen
S224/1999 [2000] HCATrans 614.

p. 199

Amateurs tend to be opportunistic:
R Matthews,
Armed Robbery
; Smith and Louis, 2009.

p. 199

There's limited premeditation in robberies:
Sarah Vogler, ‘On the Beat',
Gold Coast Bulletin
, 2 June 2007.

p. 199

Intermediate armed robbers are generally:
Matthews 2002; Smith and Louis 2009.

p. 199

Professional armed robbers have:
Gill 2001; Katz 1988.

p. 200

This type of robbery produced:
Georgina Fuller, ‘The Where and When: A Profile of Armed Robbery by Location',
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
; M Borzycki and G Fuller (2014); ‘Armed Robbery in Australia 2009–10'; National Armed Robbery Monitoring Program report. Monitoring Report. Canberra: AIC.

p. 201

In February 2016 she was:
Brimbank & North West Weekly
, 23 February 2016.

p. 201

The year before, Santalab:
R v
Franjo Vlado Santalab
[2012] NSWDC 266.

p. 202

He appealed his life sentence:
R v Tilley, Peter Alan
[1983] VicSC 311;
R v Perrier, Pop & Tilley
[2008] VSCA 97.

p. 203

The trend towards this sort:
Kate McClymont, ‘Vincent Tribe Salutes Own in Going Away Party',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 November 2010.

p. 203

However, the total of 159:
Cosima Marriner, ‘Gold Coast Fugitives Moving South',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 7 August 2011.

p. 204

Benjamin Power received a nine-year:
R v Abell
[2015] QCA 144.

p. 205

Red Rat Pollitt became a successful painter:
R v Guider
[2000] NSWCCA 355.

p. 205

She claimed she had been forced:
Age
, 11–12 February 1999.

p. 206

When Pentridge, where he had been imprisoned:
R v Haildey and Alford
[1984] VR 229;
Age
, 6 August 1997.

p. 206

The authorities said he had committed:
Leanne Nicholson, ‘Barry Stuart's Family Call for Inquiry',
WA Today
, 22 November 2013.

Acknowledgements

Our thanks go first and foremost to Dock Bateson for her research, advice and help. Without her, this book would never have seen the light of day. They also go, in strictly alphabetical order, to Gary Adshead, Sunil Badami, Nicholas Cowdery QC, Sean Cowan, Paul Danilios, David Dixon, Michael Drury, Sally Heath, Lisa Anne Jones of the Queensland Police Museum, the late Paul Lincoln, the late Billy Longley, Foong Loon Kong, Bernie Matthews, Brian Murphy, Sybil Nolan, Mark Norman SC, John Rigbey, Russell Robinson, Adam Shand, Clive Small and Adrian Tame, as well as a number of people who have asked not to be named. Our thanks go also to the staff of the State Archives of New South Wales and Victoria, the National Library of Australia, the Mitchell-Dixon library in Sydney and the John Oxley Library, Brisbane, the State Libraries of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia, as well as the British Library and the National Archives, Kew, England. The following websites were invaluable: austlii.edu.au, newspapers.nla.gov.au, Fairfax News Store and paperspast, natlib.govt.nz.

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