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.
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Rule: Who killed Colonel Duncan? A swinging sixties murder mystery
It was a society crime replete with affairs, scandal and a trail of blood. Andrew Rule examines a killing that shocked a state.
Geoff Clark’s criminality as ingrained as his belligerent sneer
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.
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First rule of cop corruption club — there is no corruption club
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Aussie cops turn nose up at sniffer dogs
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