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IT is, when you think about it, quite shocking that police have to continually remind people that Malcolm John Naden is no hero.

IT is, when you think about it, quite shocking that police have to continually remind people that Malcolm John Naden, the fugitive wanted over the murder of one woman and the disappearance of another, is no hero.

And it must drive police crazy when they hear his name mentioned alongside Ned Kelly and Captain Thunderbolt.

We all love a good yarn, and Naden's six-plus years on the run is a beauty. But Richard Guilliatt's story rightly dampens some of the mythology around Naden and brings the focus back where it belongs: on the two victims and the six children they left behind.