They've knocked the door and rushed in or kicked it in, doesn't matter.

But they entered the place and they've terrorized this family.

Think about it.

People coming in a ballet, labor spoiler, suits on and sawn off shotguns.

They writ and sent divers in.

They retrieved one hundred and eight items.

Now that's quite a lot of items, but I think I think that in relation to the total hall, it's not a lot of items.

This is where it gets cloudy.

I'm Andrew Rule.

This is Life and Crimes.

Our guest in the studio is Fabian.

Fabian has several names, but today he's using the name Fabian Christian because that is his pen name.

And he's here because he has written what is a novel, and yet it is something a little different from a novel.

It is a novel based loosely on true events, and that is where Life and Crimes comes into this, Fabian, because true events is where we live.

And as a very very old crime reporter, I can recall back in the mid nineteen eighties most fascinating and interesting crime where a bunch of armed and masked people raided a property, a homestead property up in the air, a valley there at Glen and made off with a fantastic treasure trove of opals and gems and other valuables that sort of stuff, collectibles essentially, which depending who you listen to, were worth many millions or tens of millions, or a fantastic amount of money, all of which was a bit hypothetical for the crooks concerned because they weren't insurance, so the person they robbed didn't get an insurance.

And b it was such a big heist of so many readily identifiable objects that the crooks bit off more than naked chew and it was sort of too hot to handle.

But you have written or produced a novel based, I believe on a manuscript, an old, faded, tatted manuscript that fell into your possession way back in the nineties.

Yeah, true or false?

True around ninety five.

Tell us what happened.

It's actually in the author's note at the start.

But I was working actually at a Blockbuster as a store manager at the time.

I was playing music and stuff down here in the nineties.

And down here being in Victoria.

Yeah, down in Melbourne.

You are from being in Victoria for long since sort of grade too, so yeah, before that moved around a bit because my father's in the army.

But yeah, so obviously in the store we'd get to know customers pretty well.

They're in every week.

And one particular customer was talking to me about, you know, some of my writing endeavors, so screenplays and whatnot, and just said, oh, I've got an old manuscript.

Would you be interested in having a look at it writing a screenplay?

You know?

The guy who wrote it wants to see it on the big screen.

Said yeah, no, alblems, give us a look at it.

So, yeah, I ended up with it in my hands.

This is where St Kilda.

No, this was actually in Mount Waverley.

Yeah, you were the Quentin Tarantino of Mount Verly and so you were the kid in the video.

Still who's thought I'm going to write one and go to Hollywood.

That's right, good on it.

Yeah, it didn't quite work out that way, so that's right.

So I wrote a rough screenplay and then basically it went into storage, both the manuscript and my screenplay for years.

Because we're talking about thirty years ago.

Now you don't look that old.

Oh, thank you.

You must have been you must have been just a teenager.

Yeah, it was about twenty so yeah, but only five years ago.

My partner and now wife, Adriana.

Whom you did?

You did?

She?

I told her all about it, and she being a lover of Australian novels and crime and all that sort of stuff.

So give us a look at the screenplay, what have you gotten, and really encouraged me to actually get about writing the story.

Right.

Good.

So the story was written by the crook who ended up in this heist that you just mentioned.

So we're talking here in the real world.

We're talking about a man called Leon O'gary correct, And this is where our paths collide.

He or a messenger from him, someone known to him as turned up at your store thirty years ago with this manuscript.

Around that same time.

This is about the time, just after Gary got out of jail for this particular crime.

He was buzzing around Melbourne talking to people like me, you know, crime reporters, looking to promote himself.

It was in the mid nineties, actually early early to mid nineties.

I was in the news a bit with producing books and you know the chop of books and so and so.

Yeah, the crooks would sort of all queue up saying I've got a story too, you know, don't worry about drop of read.

Look at mate, mine's better.

Your mine's better.

And as they all do.

And he was certainly at the top of a short list of people doing that.

And I can recall because it was quite an unusual name, Leon Gary Gary.

Yeah, it's an easy name to remember and it sticks in the mind.

So when you've produced duel book, which you showed me at a literary festival recently, I was instantly remembered that and was quite fascinated by it and turned to the back to the robbery section where they robbed the property had Yarra Glenn because that probably is one of the largest robberies in Australian history in a sense, if you estimate the value of the opals and things it is, it's a very big one.

And to be so unknown he is fascinating.

I think that is because the newspapers at the time we're talking about fifteen million, others were talking about thirty million yees and in today's value, it's crazy.

Off the scale, a bit hypothetical in the sense that that sort of stuff it makes, it establishes its value at auction, and anything at auction is only what somebody will pay for it, and what it might be worth on the open market in the international market is rather different from what you can get for it in Australia, and especially get for it on a black market industry, when you might get ten percent of its.

And the story actually says that when he finally gets to that point with Frankie the Fence, as the character's known, getting rid of it quickly meant it wasn't going to get what it was really worth.

We are going to take our listeners back to the start now and explain exactly what happened so they don't get confused.

So you can tell us what went on.

We're talking about Thursday night, twenty fourth of October nineteen eighty five.

It's ten days out from the Melbourne Cup.

It's that time of year, it's late spring.

The Yarravelli be looking lovely, be all green and beautiful.

The Lang family have moved there, not many years earlier.

I would suggest I hadn't been there long, I don't think.

And this is a middle aged man, a man around sixty sixty one called Bert Lang.

I think he's Jeff Burt Lang.

His middle name was Burt.

His much younger wife, Sandra, was around forty.

They had four children aged between two and ten or ten or nearly eleven, and they were living there, having moved there from Hawthorne.

Mister Lang was I don't know if he was a recluse, but he'd made apparently a lot of money running a chain of all night pharmacies around in Melbourne, and clearly was quite a wealthy man.

And he'd sold a big house in Hawthorne for pretty big money, and he gone up there and bought this property for what at the time was regarded as a faverit of money.

Eighty hectare property I think, which is you know in the Aravellley's had a Rolls Royce in the garage as well as a lot of other stuff.

Was clearly that sort of collector person that would like having Rolls Royce.

He loved beautiful things.

They are sitting at home on that Thursday night at ten thirty, the kids are in bed, mister and missus Lang watching television.

What happened?

Well, Leon and his associates had crafted a plan and according to that original manuscript which I kept the thread going in, that screenplay had been a tip off from someone who Leon had been living with and was part of the group that eventually went to court about this, right, and his version of events were quite different to what the media said in that Lang was involved in some nefarius stuff as well.

So who's saying this?

So the person, Yeah, his contact had said that he was involved in some other dealings.

Which weren't totally kosher.

And that yes, he was a collector and had, you know, potentially a lot of valuables.

So they're saying he's essentially a big, wealthy collector who's a bit of a crook.

That's what that was one view of him, which may not be true, may not be you're certainly a big collector with cash, but we don't know for sure whether he's a crook or not.

So we'll allow that through to the keeper.

That's right.

So this is just what was claimed in this original manuscript.

Makes for a hell of a story because effectively, Leon and his cohort went out there with the intent.

White knights almost yeah, yeah, they were squaring up from the little guy.

Yeah.

Well, well, Leon was also on a bit of a vendetta himself with you know, against the crooked cops and some of the drug trade that was going on and some killda So he kind of lined it up that this was a bit of a you know, have your cake and eat it too, so a chance to take someone down who was up to no good and apparently had a lot of collectible stuff that he could actually make some money off.

Do you believe, as the police seemed to that gang, the Locust Gang of no better phrase also known as the collector gang of them, that they had pulled, you know, a dozen other raids over the previous couple of years, sixteen raids or something smaller.

Do you believe that to be true.

I believe it to be true.

Yeah, certainly.

According to Leon's manuscript, his version, Yeah, they were very active and very very good and the crooked cops actually, according to him, were involved in it as well, so as in getting a cut from some of his jobs.

Now that shock you, well, I think it was pretty well known.

There was a lot of corruption around in the eighties, and there was a Royal commission in the early nineties.

I think you'd know probably better than me with vic Pole, but there was definitely a bit of a clean out after that.

I think some Kilda and Praan notably, but also some other places.

Probably Collin would probably fit through it, probably Footscray that there was a lot went on, but particularly Sinkilled in those days.

The least used to call it the sin killed the police force.

The joke was it was its own municipality, you know, they ran things their own way and it was a hotbed of corruption and I think that spilled over into Pran and wins them and.

Well, a lot of this novel is centered on the streets and killed her in the eighties, so it's kind of got a nostalgia feel.

About it as well.

Totally, Yeah, because Sinkila did change a lot in that forty years.

It has a lot there.

So back to your question, they went there with intent for sure, and they went in and they did the job.

So they've gone in at ten thirty at night.

They've knocked the door and rushed in or kicked it in, doesn't matter.

They entered the place and they've terrorized this family.

Mister Lang is sixty one.

I think he was home from hospital with it a haart thing, an angina or something.

It was just home on leave from the hospital.

His wife's forty.

She's a youngish mother of four kids.

Lang must have had a bit of go about him.

He refused to open the safe, but his wife was terrified, particularly because a couple of the crooks clearly knew the names of the kids.

I think one of the raiders was a woman.

They're all wearing the same sort of kiar, but I think one of the raiders was a woman, and she knew the names of the kids, which was chilling to the mother, and said, you know, I'll go up and get candy kay.

I think her name was the oldest girl, all little Opal, which I believe that had a child called open.

And so the crooks go and drag the ten year old out of bed and bring it down and say to the parents, if you don't open the safe, we'll blow her brains out, and we'll blow that all their brains out, one by one in front of you until you open the safe.

Now, whether they would actually do that is another thing, but they said it, and by saying it, they absolutely terrified the mother and the girl, the effect of which ultimately was that that little girl ended up having psychological issues and treatment for years, and her mother, Sandra, died of a heart attack months later.

And it was described by a coroner as dying of fright, because she died one night a few months later when somebody knocked at the door at night and she got such a fright she died.

Now, this is a terrible effect, terrible that's not white night.

These guys too much.

That's what happened.

Yeah, it destroyed that family.

And there was definitely no mention of any children in the account, the original account.

There was definitely some correlation because my wife and I did a lot of research, or was best we could in the State Library going through the old films, which was really laborious and hard work, but we found some great articles about it, and that was one of the first things that struck me.

There was no mention of children in the original account, aren't.

But there was a correlation with one of the members going berserk, and actually in some of the articles, Leon actually put that forward that he actually tried to settle things down because one of them had gone off his head.

So you know, this is all.

Different versions of events or different accounts, I suppose, But as you said, the reality is missus Lang died later, obviously suffering terrible stress as you would at home invasion.

Think about it people coming into Ballet Clavis, boiler suits on and sawn off shotguns threatening to blow.

And the older child that was old enough to be terribly frightened.

It's probably ruined her life.

I mean, I'm not sure she's still live or what, but there's no doubt that it would effect her forever.

On any telling, it's a self serving account by Leona Gary Gary wherever we say it.

So on the night to get back to the action, they do open the safe, they do clean it out.

It must have been a very big safe and there were saying a lot in it.

Then they go around and scour each of the rooms.

Now there's so many collectible things in this house.

Our man Jeff Lang had been buying stuff for years, clearly, and they'd come prepared with two vans and thirty odd sports bags you know, Thomber those sausage bags that people used to carry their footy gear or whatever, and they filled them.

They filled all these bags and filled two vans with stuff.

Now this is opals, this is diamonds.

This is also ivory figurines, all sorts of.

Couple of solid gold statues which were the real thing.

Yeah, the real value, the real thing which.

You know, just on weight of gold worth money.

Then they vanish.

First of all, they call landline days.

Of course they've cut the phones, pulled them out, and they've slashed all the tires of the cars there, and Jeff Lang ends up driving one of those cars on the flat tires to get help from neighbors.

By this time all or some of the robbers have gathered at some venue in Eltham, which is not that far away, and there they have done a quick divvy up of the loot or something and worked out what they should keep, what's saleable or what's not.

And Gary, it would appear, has thrown a bit of stuff in the era there and then down at Fairfield.

Whether he did it all in one that night or not, I'm not sure, but he certainly threw stuff in the era at two points, and later when he was arrested about three weeks later, he put it.

He telled the police pretty well everything.

They went and sent divers and they retrieved one hundred and eight items.

Now that's quite a lot of items, but I think I think that in relation to the total hall, it's not a lot of items.

That's This is where it gets cloudy, is it one hundred and eight out of a thousand, or one hundred and eight out of two hundred and sixteen, or one eight out of one hundred and fifty.

This is where it gets.

It gets tricky, and no one knows.

Is no one alive to tell us that.

Well, that's right because according to and this is what Bandital priests, the book actually relays Leon's version of events.

So his side of the story is that he did mention that he'd thrown stuff in the arraw, but it was as a decoy to get rid of crooks who were actually trying to catch him and torture him for it.

And then he goes on to claim that he actually buried most of it down the coast, which I assume would be down on Thaggy Away from where the family.

Hard to know, ye, well, hard to know whether it's a true story or a throwoff.

Absolutely just to make himself look good.

And that was one of the reasons why, you know, when I eventually wrote the book, that I really tried to find him.

I hired a private investigator and other things, because I was actually genuinely interested in hearing his side the story.

Yes, and looking back in Old Blood.

And what happened to the rest of the treasure, like what happened to it?

I doubt he got his hands on it because he was in Pentridge and the cops ale knew about it and all the rest of it.

But what actually went on.

This is a very interesting question, and it's one of the reasons I've been so keen to write anniversary piece, which I've done.

But by the time this interview is seen, that story will have been in the paper, the Herald's Son.

It is a fascinating question.

Was there a hell of a lot more?

Did some of it get sold offshore through their usual fences and so on them?

It is alleged that there were people in a syndicate who would send stuff to Europe via Asia that's great, and it would get sold over there.

And there were stories disseminated by the police.

In the days after the robbery, the head of the arm robbery squad was briefing crime reporters and saying, look, earlier this year we tipped off Amsterdam police, the Dutch police about a Renois painting with a million dollars, a lot of money.

In those days.

There was two houses in two Racive million dollars back then, which what's that now you know, might be forty fifty A lot of money tipped them off that there was a renmix coming in and the Dutch police arrested four men and retrieved the painting.

And so clearly there was some sort of network that the police knew about, and it would appear that this Locus gang stuff had some of it had been sent off shore before.

Now the question is did that happen in this case at all, or was the stuff you know, buried and sort of lost or buried and dug up by other crooks somehow because they got the leon, or buried and dug up by police who'd got the leon.

Those are the questions.

That's where my mind goes.

He's always been my gut feel when with or without finding leon and verifying And you think I've got a really good thread for a sequel just based on the what if what could have been?

Totally?

Yeah, Yeah, it's a very interesting question.

And you can see the potential for this story to make a or version of to make a good streamer.

Absolutely, you could elongate it and you can sort of can be episodic.

It's a good action story with lots of a cast full of interesting heads, you know, the old crook, the young crooked, the young, pregnant crooked, married couple, father and daughter.

Yeah, the Bent Cops in the eighties.

You know, it's just amazing, and it's actually written that way.

So I broke it into four sort of Maine chunks.

So the first part sort of his early life.

And moving to Melbourne.

Then the next part is kind of he gets mentored by another criminal.

Then the Locus gang happens, and then obviously he's got his crusade against some of the dealers and the Bent Cops that he legitimately goes after some of these people, and then of course it all spirals downwards as crime usually does, Andrew it does.

It ends badly for nearly everybody.

Leon.

Yeah, interesting character.

I did speak to his former sister in law, well, I suppose it is his sister in law really she still is, And she said, look, he was a fantasist.

Really he always put the best spin on things that make himself look good or better or smarter, and which makes you wonder about that.

There's no doubt that his manuscript will be self serving.

It'll cast himself in a better light than well, even the absence of the children from it.

He doesn't want to write something where they're rubbing a house with four kids in it.

Well, that would look bad.

Yeah, and you know, crooks in jail will beat you for that, that's right, because they want to make themselves look better than the other guy.

And it's interesting his comments while it was at court that he had tried to settle the situation and and you know had I think he said in one of the articles that he'd actually grabbed one of the kids, and you know, so so even even sort of well, you.

Know, perhaps he mightn't, although mister Lang didn't seem to think so he pointed out him and said he leapt up while he was in the box and said, yeah's him.

That's the man that killed my wife.

You're a rat, that's right, a rat.

It didn't sound as if he thought he'd be kind of the kids for it.

Anyway.

That's what's fascinating though, because the story in the book.

Leon's view of Lang is.

The opposite to what was actually put out in the newspapers as well.

Sorry explain that.

So his version of Lang, or known as the Doctor the Pharmacist in the book is completely it's not the poor family man that was terrorized with his absolute criminal according to leon.

Or could all be versions of the truth.

It could be or somewhere in the middle.

Who Well, you know, crooks can have families all they do and love them and you know, yeah, yeah, So let's look at this.

We've got a band that none of us know anything about, really, and that is Jeff Flang.

Jeff Flang apparently owned a series of overnight all night pharmacies, which is nothing wrong with that good idea.

That's like, you know, being first with Kentucky Fried Chicken, that's a thing, you know.

But the thing about all night pharmacies around inner Melbourne in the eighties, they would be the perfect place to trade in drugs in that sort of gray area where where you know, drugs can sort of drift out of the official channels into the unofficial channels, and that gray area where there's doctors in places like St Kilda would prescribe opioids and junkies would be in there getting lots of them, et cetera, et cetera.

It would be a great way to distribute illicit drugsies via under the counter at such a place I mean in Sekila was at hamburger shops where you could buy heroin in the hamburger.

Yeah, you tell, I'll have one hundred dollars hamburgers and they go with a lot and that's what you get in it was the heroin a lot.

So this would be an obvious thing to do, and it makes a lot of sense.

And there'd be no doubt that the Bent coppers who then Rnson killed he would be in on it and taking a cut.

Yeah, and it might be a reason why the police acted were so hot on the trail and because it's burnt their man.

Yes, and perhaps, And that was probably one of the things that struck me the most is, you know, according to Gary, the level of corruption and the Bent cops controlling, Like obviously you'd be a lot more across it.

But as I was sort of reading it as a young guy in my twenties, I was like, could this be right?

These guys are actually every bit as bad as well, they're crooks as well totally.

Oh and indeed some of them were and Sint Kilda was notorious and rightly so.

And you know, to this some ex police some will tell you about the things that happened in Sinkilda and the way that Sint Kilda police treated police from beyond Saint Kilda, they thought they were beyond approach.

And one yesterday was telling me that he was sitting in his I think he was in one of the squads, crime squad.

He was sitting in a police car in Saint Kilda, riding up official stuff and they said knock on the door from a very young female constable who says, what are you doing here?

And he says, excuse me, and she said what are you doing here?

You know, what are you down?

What are you down here?

For an outpatch?

And he was there on squad business, whether we could have been homicide squad or whatever it was.

And he said, I'll talk to you an divvan the minute.

And when I finished doing this and he was, let's say a sergeant and she was, you know, let's say nothing much.

And he went and gave her a blister.

He wrought at her for doing this, and then he got blowback from her senior offices, well, from a senior sergeant or an inspector or somebody at Sint Kilda.

They thought they were running their own private five and to some extent they were, well.

I think that's right.

And the other thing about the end result of this is and this what was in the paper lined up with the original manuscript too, that Leon claimed that he was captured and tortured to know the whereabouts of where the loot was, and it's actually in the paper.

A couple of the detectives were questioned about it and said, yeah, he made that allegation, but we never followed it up because we didn't believe it round about.

Yeah.

So, but I find those correlations interesting because what was in the newspaper is actually you know, what he'd spoken about.

There's no doubt that that sort of stuff went on, and that even if Leon is a self centered, narcissistic, lying, self justifying crook, that doesn't mean that the bent coppers weren't the same thing.

It's just a big snake pit and the biggest snake gates the others.

So as that chopper read once said, so it's a very interesting tale of a crime that notionally, if you add up the potential prices of these stolen opals and gold things and jewels, it could be the biggest done robberie ever in Australia.

You know, technically technically, had of course, had it been in cash, it would would have been without doubt.

But this is what it's nine years after the great bookie robbery in the city here at the Victorian Club or Victoria Club, and it netted no one really knows, but several minutes.

It might have been three and it might have been five.

But whatever, it gets inflated too much.

But in cash, yeah, mostly color cash.

And that was a very big robbery.

But this one, if it's all true about how much of the stuff there was, it was bigger.

So it's an astonishing thing it is.

And I think it's another reason why, as you said, it'd be great, it'd be great for the story itself even to get on the screen, because it really is part of Australian or Melbourne crime history.

It is because something this size it just had never happened and wouldn't happen again.

Wonderful story just uses a basis for some somebody like you, this doctor or pharmacist or whoever it might be, the bent businessman type who's a sort of a shadowy figure and a bit of a foot in both camps.

That is a very productive you know, the sort of characters that we see in the British dramas, aren't they absolutely the sort of not all white and not all black.

Yeah, I think that's what you know, a lot of us love about true crime and the Melbourne and Sinkilda and King's Cross.

Is it that it's got its own character about it because it's Australian.

I've got the European obviously ancestry and very hard people like these people were hard nuts and the cops as well, like it was there was no mucking around.

No, it's of good stuff.

So when did you start doing the book?

You worked on this way back in the day when you were young, you put it away and when your partner you've had another look at it just a few years ago.

Yeah, the old the screenplay cod that's right, it was so well just before we started.

So, but it was about five years ago and and the book came out a little while ago now, so it's been it's got a distribution, so it's available sort of pretty easily if you search for it online.

Some of the good old readings in Melbourne of stocked and supported it, which is which is great.

But yeah, so five years ago started to work on it a couple of solid years of work, and yeah, ended up with a good product.

It's called bandit or priest.

That's right, bandit or priest.

And my question to you is could it easily be called bandit or bent cop?

Yeah?

Yeah, well about it?

Who took the money?

That's right?

Yeah, And that's I think that's the interesting thing banded or priest.

With a lot of these guys, like you said, a lot of these crooks were you know, they had some of them.

Sounds weird to say, but they were still good family people.

And there was a kind of a code of conduct with the crooks from those days of them, some of them.

Yeah, of course there were.

There were extremes as well, but you.

Know, no, no, there was, and they were hard a lot, and some of them their good points, although preps not quite as many as people like to think.

I suspect they always notice it with crooks.

They always want to look down on someone else.

Well, you know, you might think I'm bad, but I'll tell you what, I'm not bad.

I'm not a sex offender like that, but you know, because I'm better than that.

So they all want to point at somebody else when in fact, a lot of them are rapists.

A lot of them are.

If you go into their history history, it doesn't actually bear out the way they talk.

They talk a big talk, and a lot of them have got very patchy records.

In every way, aberrant behavior is a behavior.

Well, yeah, I mean, and to get on that side of the law or that sort of underworld.

You know, there's there's some pretty shady behavior happening, isn't there.

Yeah, but the yeah, the there is.

A you mentioned earlier about the Collector's Gang and the Locust Gang and their history of the dozen or more you know, big jobs that they did, and it certainly is a thread throughout the book, so a cast of different characters that he pulled into jobs along the way.

And as I said earlier too, that very much the sin Kilda cops had their hands in his pocket, much to his disgust.

According to Leon that this was just a constant theme.

Either he paid them or he would be put out.

Of business permanently.

So, oh, no doubt about it.

Yeah.

So the Locust Gang known as that because they went in there and they cleaned absolutely everything.

Everything out, Yeah, like a plate of locus.

It does appear that while they were doing relatively low profile jobs, even though they were big paintings or whatever, that they weren't jobs that got big headlines because the people who were robbed weren't particularly kean on headlines because it made them look foolish.

And also it means they could be targeted again another time, but this time they'd overstepped the mark.

It was big, it was violent, and involved children, and we think you and I think that probably the target was someone who thought he had some sort of police protection or tie up.

So all of those things went against the crooks in this instant.

Yeah, and that's the fascinating part.

As the story unfolds, it is just a nightmare that just gets from bad to worse to worse to worse for him, including the recount of the torture that happened when he was caught by this other.

Rival rhetoric last night.

There's no doubt that would happen.

Oh, you know, if you've stolen lots and lots of millions of and they sent heavies after you, and they're certainly going to give you a horrible bashing to try and get it back.

I guess the other interesting thing earlier on in the book, it recounts the story of a heist done at the Melbourne Airport.

So it's a little bit harder to find information on that because it was done in the seventies.

But you know, he was eventually caught for that as well and retold the story that he did seven years hard time in Pentridge.

Over a heist at Melbourney.

That's correct, Yes, so that one, because I didn't have any specific dates.

As opposed to the second big job at Yarra Glen, that one would have been like literally for me, a needle in the haystack at the State Library because you're literally searching via kind of dates with those old reels.

So but the.

Reality is, you know he did hard time for that one as well, seven years and that was kind of the early genesis of the Locust Gang itself, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Was that money being transported?

Was it money being moved from a crate full of money being transported from from Melbourne to somewhere?

What was it?

According to him, it was coming into Melbourne from Singapore and it was cashion and diamonds.

Cash and diamonds.

Yeah, okay, and must have been inside information.

It was inside information.

Again, he knew exactly where to go, what day it was, what the flight number was.

He was, he was very much tipped off about it, and yeah, they were caught.

One of his cohorts ended up talking and they got onto it, and yeah, eventually he got put away.

And the lesson here is if he gained to be crook, never took.

Never talk, that's right, say nothing, and careful of who you bring into these jobs.

Two people know a secret, it's not a secret.

Yeah, and on that note we shall end this episode.

We look forward to seeing the sequel to bandit or Presolutely and we'll do it again.

I thank you, Fabian Christian, thanks for having real name.

Shall remain a mystery.

Thanks for listening.

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