Deadline: Neo-Nazis are an intolerant bunch, so what’s their view on child abuse?

Neo-Nazis are a notoriously intolerant bunch, so one wonders what their view will be of one of their own being busted with child abuse material.

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Mark Buttler with his weekly dose of scallywag scuttlebutt.

Not so pure?

Neo-Nazis are an intolerant bunch.

They insist their brand of hardline attitudes is the way to make things right, so you’d think they’d have some very firm views on the issue of child pornography.

We ponder this because one former prominent fascist has recently been busted with child abuse material.

Legal considerations mean we can’t say too much more but the charged man has a background of terrorising those not of an Aryan background.

He was once very fond of setting fire to businesses belonging to those who didn’t fit in with his narrow view of who was welcome in Australia.

If he is jailed, he may get a taste of his own medicine in an environment where such interests are very much frowned upon.

Cobram cop has runs on board

There must be a few country towns where folk are wishing they had cops like Marcus Boyd and his team at Cobram.

The Herald Sun this week outlined how local police, working with the Melbourne-based Echo Taskforce, had taken down the drug empire of Mongol Joshua Eddy and his many associates.

Maybe the syndicate should have seen Boyd coming because he’d been involved in this type of challenging and delicate work before.

Joshua Eddy and his drug dealing empire was brought down by a collection of determined country and city cops.

There must be plenty of country town that wished they had cops as diligent as Cobram’s are.

About two decades earlier, he had been part of a sprawling inquiry involving the activities of Italian organised crime figures in the northeast.

Local farmers’ properties were torched, water lines cut and dogs poisoned in a racket run by standover thugs operating from the shadows to extort their own.

One of the main players took hush money from a rival or he would tell his wife of a sexual indiscretion.

The blackmailer was such a pig that he still torched the victim’s farm shed, cut down his trees and demanded $100,000 to stop.

Sgt Boyd said the co-operation of local police and crime command specialists had yielded success in both the Latorre and Eddy cases.

“To these guys’ credit, they scooped up the whole cereal bowl,” he said of the Eddy result.

Cop unloads on bungling crooks

There was some old-fashioned straight-talking from one of the cops investigating a brutal home invasion at Yea last month.

The culprits, armed with a gun and other weapons poured fuel over the unfortunate 68-year-old victim, assaulted him, threw him in the boot then burned his house down.

Detective Sergeant Flyn Loughlin said it was evident those responsible – who were looking for guns and money – had got the wrong house.

He said this was the kind of crime which explained why our prisons are full.

“Sometimes we don’t deal with criminal masterminds in Victoria Police, hence (why) most of them end up in jail. This might be the case here,” Sgt Loughlin said.

The 68-year-old man was tortured and had his home torched in a case of mistaken identity. Picture: 3AW

Leif Finks charge is dopey

Former Finks bikie gang standover man turned Crime YouTuber Leif Hughes is back in strife.

In the scheme of things, the two grams of cannabis police found on him isn’t exactly going to send his reputation to pot.

Our colleague Craig Dunlop tells us that Hughes makes a buck these days reeling off war stories of his time in prison on his YouTube channel and TikTok account “The Chaos Chronicles”.

Hughes has a criminal record about as thick as a phone book, but when a police prosecutor slipped up and said he had “a large amount” of drug priors, he went bananas.

“How about you start telling the truth mate? I’m 42 and I have got two drug possessions my entire life,” Hughes said in a tone that suggested he was definitely not under the influence of the happy herb.

Hughes has multiple sclerosis, and claims the dope was prescribed by a doctor.

But he could only come up with an out-of-date medical document.

The Magistrate suggested police should just drop the charges, but the prosecuting sergeant held firm, and demanded Hughes prove his prescription was in-date.

Drunk crossed the lion

The horrific story of a woman having her arm ripped off by a lion at a Queensland zoo brought to mind a, thankfully, less serious case in our own city many years ago.

A Deadline associate recalled how a mate had visited Melbourne Zoo one evening and got in the jungle juice at some kind of fancy gathering.

He then went for a wander and decided to stick his fingers into a cage.

“He got full as a goog and said `hello, Mr Lion’. The lion just went BANG.”

Our man is pleased to reveal the loss of multiple digits did nothing to impede the victim’s modelling career.

Rap turns real

A lot of drill music tends to have gangster-style lyrics laden with violence.

That means one western suburbs exponent of the genre may have some fresh inspiration after real gangsters fired shots into his home this week.

The Outlaw Media news site has reported that the target of the shots, fired from a vehicle, was a drill rapper.

Police believe the gunplay, which happened at 1.15am Monday on Twain Way, was no random attack.