Life on the run for Australia’s most wanted
The fugitive legend is one of the most powerful stories we tell each other and history is studded with tales of the ones that got away, but some criminals still meet a deservedly bad end.
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How Mokbel found himself in shark tank without a cage
The gashing that followed the bashing of Tony Mokbel was the moment of truth for the master manipulator who had spent a fortune over the years arranging “friends” and protectors to keep him safe. When he needed them in Barwon Prison last Monday, they weren’t there.
The worst attacks inside Victoria’s dog-eat-dog prison world
Tony Mokbel’s brutal stabbing this week was “straight from the prison bashing manual”, one ex-prisoner says. But his attack isn’t the first in a long history of brutal jailhouse blindsides in Victoria.
Mokbel’s condition updated as new stabbing details emerge
Tony Mokbel’s condition has been downgraded from critical to serious. It comes as new details emerge of the brutal prison attack on Mokbel launched as he walked past a birthday party held by a group of Pacific Islander inmates.
Kingpin’s fragile grip on prison power
As one of the nation’s biggest drug barons, Tony Mokbel once wielded the sort of power only the super rich can have. But behind bars, there’s only so much protection his shrinking wealth and influence can offer. NEW CRIME PODCAST
The horse ‘some might suggest beaten by cheats’: text
Sent in the frantic minutes after last spring’s Victoria Derby, this text shows why the racing community was shocked, but not surprised, by Darren Weir’s downfall. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW
Black Saturday, the story we owe 173 Victorians
Ten years on from our bleakest day, the greatest lesson of all is hard for broken hearts to handle. It is that life goes on, and that green shoots grow from ashes. ANDREW RULE reports on life after Black Saturday.
What is a ‘jigger’? It’s nothing new to racing
A “jigger” — used to shake and stir racehorses with a harmless but highly illegal electric shock — is one of racing’s nasty little secrets. But it’s not new, writes Andrew Rule.
Cup-winning jockey powering up racing ranks
Jamie Kah has been likened to Melbourne Cup-winning jockeys John Letts and Kerrin McEvoy and now she is carving her place in the racing industry with outstanding skill – a talent further enhanced at Flemington on Saturday when she captured her first Group 1 win.
Fear chills Melbourne’s heart again
It’s a story tragically familiar to Melbourne that has again caused outrage. Aiia Maasarwe was returning after a night out before she was killed at random, sadly too similar to the murders of Jill Meagher, Masa Vukotic and Eurydice Dixon, writes Andrew Rule.
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