The Snitch: Identity of killer Daniel Holdom’s ex finally revealed
The Snitch — The Sunday Telegraph’s law and order column — gives you all the news and gossip from police and the courts, including revealing the identity of double murderer Daniel Holdom’s ex, and just what gangster Pasquale Barbaro left in his lawyer’s office.
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The Snitch — The Sunday Telegraph’s law and order column — gives you all the news and gossip from police and the courts, including revealing the identity of double murderer Daniel Holdom’s ex, and just what gangster Pasquale Barbaro left in his lawyer’s office.
THE KILLER’S GIRLFRIEND WHO KEPT HER MOUTH SHUT
SHE managed to hide behind a non-publication order for a year but the ex-girlfriend of killer Daniel Holdom can now be identified.
Hazel Passmore listened to a confession from her ex-lover about killing Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce and found photographic proof but stayed silent. In 2015 cops got her to agree to give evidence in return for avoiding charges.
But since the NSW Supreme Court lifted the non-publication order on her name on Friday, Snitch can reveal she has moved from her housing trust home in Adelaide’s northern suburbs and is living near the Gold Coast with her partner and kids.
Word is the move was made easier by a payment she received after suing Holdom for causing a car accident that left her in a wheelchair and killed two of her children.
SHE’S A PARTNER IN CRIME
SHE got Mustapha Dib out of jail, another man cleared of a gang shooting and helped ex-gang boss Mohammed Hamzy beat a murder rap.
Now Ruth Parker, the go-to defence lawyer for some of Sydney’s high-profile crooks, is cracking the glass ceiling.
Ms Parker has become the first female partner in Melbourne-based firm Galbally Rolfe’s history, and next year will become principal at the city’s oldest exclusively criminal law firm.
“I am very proud to be the first female partner in its 42-year history and to have further expanded our practice into NSW,’ she said.
“It is important not just that women do these things but that they are seen to do these things,” Ms Parker said.
“It’s the only way my daughter and all of the young women out there will see that we don’t need to choose between being a professional woman, a mother or partner.
“We can be all of it.”
A LESS SUBTLE FORM OF PILL TEST
BOTH Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Police Minister Troy Grant are refusing to countenance pill testing despite the deaths of two young dance party-goers at Defqon.1 this month.
Maybe that is why there was a riot-worthy number of cops pouncing on everything from public urination to drunkenness at yesterday’s Listen Out festival in Centennial Park.
Privately most senior police believe pill testing would never work, with one officer saying: “It would just encourage more people who probably wouldn’t consider taking anything to get tested.”
PASQUALE’S SHADY MEMENTO
Sartorially elegant gangster Pasquale Barbaro was known for his high-end tastes and the memory of his love for fashion lives on in a Sydney barrister’s chambers.
Babaro’s Louise Vuitton sunglasses are still sitting in the chambers of barrister Greg Stanton where the mafia figure left them just days before he was shot dead in 2016.
At that time, Babaro was facing charges relating to the manufacturing of ice on properties in Goulburn and south west Sydney and had scheduled a visit with Mr Stanton in the lead up to a court hearing to vary his bail conditions.
But the meeting ended and Babaro walked out of Mr Stanton’s office in Queen’s Square Chambers on Macquarie St and left the eyewear behind.
Today, the morbid souvenir is still sitting on the top shelf inside Mr Stanton’s partner’s desk.
And with the previous owner’s reputation bolstered by his grizzly demise, their value may have jumped.
“I’ve been occasionally tempted,to offer them at public for auction but I feel ethically constrained from doing so,” Mr Stanton said. “I asked my instructing solicitors to come and pick them up but they are still there.
“He never came to pick them up and days later he was shot dead,” Mr Stanton said.
“He was a man of great style and distinction,” he said. “I don’t wear Louis Vuitton, preferring the reserved and tempered style of Cartier”.
Barbaro was shot dead outside a house in suburban Earlwood in November 2016.
CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING VICTIM-TO-BE
A MAN walks into Merrylands cop shop claiming a knife-wielding terror suspect is chasing him.
Sounds like an unbelievable tale but on this occasion it actually checked out. Only problem was the key witness in the case — the victim — went missing in action and the police forgot to take down his name.
The saga started when the man burst into the foyer of Merrylands Police Station on September 17 huffing and puffing and claiming a man armed with a knife was trying to kill him.
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The panicked man claimed his attacker had links to terrorism, which matched police intelligence.
A couple of keen general duties officers tracked down the alleged assailant not far from the police station but there was no knife in sight. The accused attacker was charged with affray and refused bail but police realised their victim had done a Houdini in the process. Whoops.
STOP PRESS: TV PRODUCER BUSTED WITH NOSE CANDY
WHICH senior producer of a popular TV show got busted buying cocaine in inner Sydney?
Things got worse for the TV exec when the police called them as a witness in their dealer’s court case.
Snitch was set to reveal the details this week when the prosecution gave the nervous producer a reprieve by deciding they weren’t needed to give evidence. A jury is about to be called in the coming days, so details have to be kept to a minimum.
What can be revealed is that police were watching the alleged dealer’s car and saw the producer get in and out in the space of a very short period of time.
It’s a tell tale sign of a deal.
Police moved and voila: 27 bags of cocaine. Allegedly, of course.