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Anthony Dowsley is a senior journalist based in Melbourne for the National News Network who has a special interest in investigating crime and the justice system. In 2018 he was named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year and won the Gold Walkley the following year for his investigation into the Lawyer X scandal involving lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo. Contact Anthony at anthony.dowsley@news.com.au

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Police on high alert for all-out bikie war

EXCLUSIVE: POLICE officers have been ordered to be on high alert as two bikie gangs get set for an all-out war in Victoria.

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IMP Jewellery store manager Stevan Morrow confronted armed robbers yesterday at the Toorak store. Picture: David Caird

‘Instinct took over … I’m not a hero’

UPDATE: A BRAVE Toorak jeweller who stood up to an armed bandit holding a pistol to his head has modestly said: “I’m no hero.” WATCH VIDEO

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Motorcyle riders gather to protest at Parliament House in Melbourne. Saturday, July 4. 2015. Picture: David Crosling

Police on guard as bikie war fears rise

POLICE are on high alert as two of the state’s leading bikie gangs could be set to reignite a war, after tit-for-tat attacks on each other by the Comancheros and Rebels.

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Echo task force Raid a property atThe Circuit Pakenham. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Bikie gang member charged over shooting

LATEST: A COMANCHERO gang member and a suspected associate have been charged after police raided five locations across Melbourne as they probe an unsolved shooting in Carrum Downs.

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Detectives and forensic have returned to the scene of yesterday's fatal shooting at Officeworks in Campbellfield. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Carpark execution suspect is behind bars

UPDATE: A MAN charged with murder after the daylight execution of another man at a northern suburbs carpark has been remanded in custody until early next year.

VIC News

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Workers compo system has flaws: Ombudsman

THE Victorian ombudsman has warned the state’s workers compensation scheme under Worksafe must be “recalibrated’’ and was failing “some vulnerable people’’.

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This image has been ID-ed by Paddy Murphy. Gavin Preston arrives at Supreme Court for the beginning of his murder trial on Monday, May 18, 2015, in Melbourne, Australia. Picture: Hamish Blair

Jailed killer gets a patch

ONE of Victoria’s most dangerous prisoners has been recruited in jail by the Comanchero outlaw bikie gang.

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Stephen Dank walking through queens square Court today. After appearing in the Supreme Court after being awarded no damages following a deformation case against news Corp

Dank’s secret meeting with bikie boss

DISGRACED biochemist Stephen Dank has held a secret meeting with the nation’s most powerful outlaw bikie boss, in the wake of a near-deadly gun attack on his Melbourne home.

True Crime Scene

Secret report casts cop kill doubt

EXCLUSIVE: A POLICE report has found there was no evidence one of the men convicted of the Silk-Miller murders was at the scene on the night.

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Man shot dead had history of violence

THE young driver shot dead by a police officer, whom he had pinned against a wall while revving an allegedly stolen van, had a history of violence and firearm offences.

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