Melbourne’s crooks, cops and celebrities aren’t afraid of getting down and dirty. And “bravo” we say, because their antics fill Deadline each week. Here’s the worst of their naughty behaviour for 2023. You’ve been warned.
The collection of cretins and imbeciles who kidnapped an innocent man they believed to be a paedophile called themselves the Australian Freedom Fighters, but one detective had a different title for them: “drug-f—ed white trash.”
It’s been 20 years this week since contract killers shot Graham “The Munster” Kinniburgh in his Kew driveway, with the anniversary bringing out more stories about the master safebreaker and wisest of Melbourne wiseguys.
Graham Kinniburgh and his crew were long gone by the time a police inspector stuck his head through a hole in the safe and uttered a line that would appear on front pages across Australia: “They got the lot”.
Their cars boast number plates like ‘GILTY’ and ‘BAILIN’, and their founder started out giving legal advice in a Coburg tyre shop. Burn City Legal is aiming for a flamboyant point of difference from traditional firms.
That Peter Forni is accused of plotting to import half a tonne of Peruvian marching powder will have shocked friends, students he taught at St Kevin’s College and the homebuyers he lent money to.
Luke Moloney, said to have quit the Hells Angels, has a leg up on other former one percenters seeking gainful employment with his college education.
War is not glorious but galloping horses are, which is why the stories of the men and horses who lived and died charging the wells of Beersheba in the Palestine desert endure more than 100 years later.
Even with a smoking gun at his throat, Les O’Hagan didn’t cower; his steadfast bravery won him two valour awards during his career. But despite his appetite for risk, he lived a long and interesting 95 years.
It seems Gotham City customers are a little gun-shy about strutting around in merchandise indicating they’ve been at the South Melbourne brothel.
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