Gangland Robbers (44 page)

Mrs Phyllis May Surridge was sentenced to death for the murder of Ernest Hofman in Kings Cross, Sydney, in 1942. News Ltd/Newspix

Sydney underworld identity Kathleen Ryan, better known as Kate Leigh, The Dowager Queen of Surry Hills, married criminal convict and artist Ernest A Ryan (Shiner Ryan) on 18 January 1950. Their nuptials did not make the social columns, but to the residents of the Surry Hills slums it was the event of the year. News Ltd/Newspix

Jean Lee is taken up the stairs of the watch house by Detectives Currer and Kellett on 25 March 1950. She was the last woman to be hanged in Australia. News Ltd/Newspix

Police show the guns used in the Great Bookie Robbery at the Victoria Club, 1976. Fairfax

Criminal Julie Wright née Cashman with her daughter after her release from Mulawa Jail, 22 September 1990. Frank Violi/Newspix

Leslie ‘Les' Kane, a member of the Victorian Ship Painters and Dockers Union, who was gunned down in his bathroom in 1978. This mug shot was taken in 1975.

Brian Raymond Kane was killed in the Quarry Hotel, Brunswick, in 1982, four years after his brother, Leslie Kane, was murdered.

Christopher Binse leaves the Supreme Court in Melbourne, 5 December 2013. Binse was arrested in May after a 44-hour standoff with police in Keilor East. AAP Image/Julian Smith