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Bandidos during a police operation at Penguin. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD

Rise of the Insta-Gangster

GONE are the days of the handlebar moustache, ripped jeans and leather jackets and men who fought over the patch you wore on your vest. Now cash is king, loyalty is dead and business is conducted between historically bitter enemies. Welcome to our bikie scene in 2018.

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Response to death ‘left me stunned’

A FORMER co-owner of the farm where a young man died in a workplace shooting told an inquest of the moment he phoned the site after hearing of the shocking death, only to be left “flabbergasted” by the response at the other end of the line.

Dead Wrong: Farm of fear and loathing

Dead Wrong: Farm of fear and loathing

JEFFREY Brooks told of fears he’d be killed at the farm where he worked, saying hostilities had turned his dream job into a nightmare. His former employer told him he’d been “watching too much TV” but the next he heard of Mr Brooks, he was dead.

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What really happened to Jeffrey Brooks?

JEFFREY Brooks feared for his life. The young scientist believed he was going to be murdered at his Brisbane workplace – and that those involved would try and make it look like an accident.

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10 reasons to reopen death investigation

THE Courier-Mail today launches Dead Wrong, a special investigation into a shooting death where everything pointed to murder, but the investigating officers couldn’t see it. The victim’s family wants the case reopened so justice can finally be delivered.

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Shelsea Schilling died after being bashed by Bronson 'Lizard Man' Ellery inside his Southport unit. Photo: Gold Coast Bulletin

What really happened inside Lizard Man’s lair

TWO people cowered in the apartment as Bronson ‘Lizard Man’ Ellery beat his ex Shelsea Schilling to death, only coming out once the screaming had stopped. For the first time, new details can be revealed about one of the Gold Coast’s most shocking murder-suicides.

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