Youth crime: brutal, dangerous and out of control
Nobody can say when and how the youth crime crisis will end. Maybe only when the victim of a serious crime lawyers up and finds a loophole to sue the state, writes Andrew Rule.
Nobody can say when and how the youth crime crisis will end. Maybe only when the victim of a serious crime lawyers up and finds a loophole to sue the state, writes Andrew Rule.
Being welcomed to the best seats in the best AFL corporate box wasn’t enough for the then ATSIC chair Geoff Clark — an unusual demand revealed a sense of entitlement as big as the MCG.
It was once one of Melbourne’s most popular restaurants — and remains the topic of an enduring crime mystery — but the Cuckoo has suffered another false start.
It was a society crime replete with affairs, scandal and a trail of blood. Andrew Rule examines a killing that shocked a state.
As a boy, Geoff Clark was so embarrassed by the sandy hair and blue eyes he’d inherited from his Glaswegian father that he’d rub mud on his face. That distress might explain what turned him into a rapist, a thug and a brazen thief.
Tensions rose with every Winx victory as her unbeaten streak stretched from 2015 to 2019, but while the Bradman of racing could take the stain, her connections couldn’t.
If you rule by the gun you die by the gun, which fruiterer John Latorre learnt the hard way. His murder has rattled some Italian organised crime players and now one top mafia figure has taken security to a new level.
It wasn’t his love of brothels or his penchant for topping up his testosterone that brought this former education department bureaucrat down, but a passion for “cooking”.
An explosion of carjackings, muggings and aggravated burglaries across Melbourne is finally being acknowledged by those who spent years pretending there was no youth crime problem.
Bart Cummings said you shouldn’t compare the champions. But Black Caviar, the greatest racehorse of all-time, must be celebrated.
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