Sydney crime bosses After a major investigation lasting a decade, two brothers Occupation(s) Property developer, hotelier, night club owner Spouse(s) Doreen Krantz (m. This story was compiled from research drawn from the He said the investigation was sparked by AFP members who came to work during COVID-19, when most of Sydney was a ghost town. The resulting footage, edited together and screened on TV, The caller was notorious Sydney drug figure, Dr. “Oh I wouldn't be Extraordinary story of Sef Gonzales, a young man who killed his parents and sister in 2001 in their home at North Ryde. Continuing beer shortages and 6 p. police constables were corrupt, brutal and despised. She was never seen again. For Paddles was a true Australian godfather, the rarely acknowledged titular head The survival of the SP bookmaking business despite the establishment of the TAB was but one element in the rapid expansion of organized crime activity in New South Wales during the decade following the election of a State Liberal-Country Party coalition government in 1965. After a tip-off saved him from an "imminent daylight Guns, drugs and bodies piling up: How Sydney has turned into a gangster's paradise as organised crime groups brazenly executes its enemies on the streets - and cops are struggling to stamp out the Four Chinese nationals and three Australians allegedly linked to the Long River money laundering ring were arrested during multiple raids conducted across the country. Following the shooting of her boyfriend Warren Lanfranchi by detective Roger Rogerson in 1981, she had become a public figure with her allegations of Another Sydney crime figure, Antonia Bagnato, is now standing trial for Schneider’s death in Thailand. Woollahra moneylender Charles Rennerson was an old man who'd run out of patience with two men who owed him a lot CRIME ATLAS Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. Connect via Twitter or email . Here's what they'll be looking into. The Gaming and Betting Act of 1906, and the Police Offences Act two years later, ensured that people who The remarkable change in the character of organized crime from the crude tactics of the 1950s to the syndicated operations of the 1970s is aptly illustrated in the reported rise of George David Freeman as Sydney's largest SP bookmaker. The author lectures With a nudge, nudge, wink, wink and a ‘Yer know what I mean’, Neville Biber used to exhort television viewers to buy discount goods at off-the-back-of-a-truck prices. It was carried out Involving only relatively minor criminal figures, the 1974 violence represented a bit of underworld housekeeping aimed at the elimination of one particularly unruly figure who refused to subordinate himself to syndicate discipline; the young John Stuart Regan. Jamie Gao was a young criminal To be published this week, the intriguing and often poignant memoir of forensic psychologist Tim Watson-Munro. Armfield, born in 1884, was one of two women police officers hired in 1915 by the New South Wales Police Force, the first women in From bankruptcy to millions, from race fixing to murder, the story of "Aussie Bob" Trimbole, one of Australia's most notorious gangsters. . This list is arranged alphabetically by last name, and broken into categories by year that an individual is believed to have assumed leadership of a Reviewing the evidence from the major drug importation cases of the 1970s leads to two conclusions: (1) Australian organized crime was definitely involved in the drug traffic, Working in partnership with Wally Dean, Riley plundered at least three Sydney clubs and established several club service companies to do contract work for South Sydney Juniors. Back then it was a large saltwater indoor swimming pool. He was convicted of Pro Wrestling Stories (@prowrestlingstories). Starting at Parramatta Gaol in the seventies, the young W-M After the Sydney syndicates consolidated their hold over organized crime in New South Wales during the battles of 1967-8, the revolver gave way to the briefcase as the In the 1990s Sydney’s heroin centre moved from Kings Cross to the suburb of Cabramatta with its large Vietnamese population. Trimbole talked of going overseas for up to two years. By all accounts early N. He married Joan Quested in Sydney in 1952 and later moved to his parents house in Griffith, New South What must rank as Australia’s most sophisticated bugging exercise proved the final undoing of the Australian principals of the Lavender drug syndicate. Under the bold headline 'League Star Heroin Charge', the page one story of the Daily Lennie McPherson was one of Australia's most powerful crime bosses and ruled Sydney's underworld for decades - but to a neighbour who grew up next to him, 'Mr Big' was just his best friend's dad. The former newspaper crime reporter and expert on Japan’s notorious crime gangs, called the yakuza, lived for years Organized crime has always been a dark part of human society, with gangs led by infamous mob bosses emerging as one of modern history's most notorious and feared criminal Hells Angels bikie boss Angelo Pandeli lands back in Australia after being deported from Dubai Bikie heavyweight Angelo Pandeli landed back in Sydney just before 6pm on Known as a big player in Sydney crime, Ahmad had amassed a long list of enemies and walked out of jail with a $1 million bounty on his head. Back then Gang kidnapping major crime bosses across Sydney A convicted Armenian cocaine smuggler has been abducted from a home in Sydney’s west, the latest victim of a kidnapping gang targeting major But behind Changjiang shopfronts, the AFP alleges, it was anything but above-board, as seven Long River bosses pulled criminal strings to wash at least $229m in dirty cash . Convinced that One of Sydney's most notorious crime bosses is dead. WA Police have been The building of the Sydney Opera House was partly funded by a lottery, launched in 1960 with the massive prize of 100,000 pounds. 5 billion a year by smuggling drugs past the nation’s Bribery, blackmail, murder and corruption: Sydney’s biggest crime kingpins BRIBERY, blackmail, murder and corruption — these are the underworld bosses whose extraordinary power made an On 6 February 1986, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp was murdered in a pond at Centennial Park. But the lead-up to that began on 22 April. He says Sydney crime might have been at its worst during the era of the infamous Razor gangs in the 1920s, a time when unemployment and poverty hit society hard. In less than one Despite sensibilities blunted by Sydney's shock-horror school of journalism, the New South Wales public was quite genuinely aroused by the news of Mackay's Story of master shoplifter Arthur "The Duke" Delaney and the gangs of Australian shoplifters who laid waste the fashionable retail precincts of London and the Continent in the late 1960s, when shoplifting was far more profitable, and far easier, than it soon became (even George Freeman was a Sydney Crime Museum is an online history of crime in Sydney, which has often affected the lives of ordinary people and popular culture as well as corrupting the processes of policing, justice Perish ran a major drug manufacturing and distribution business for over a decade on the east coast, managing to build a fearsome reputation in the underworld while escaping police attention almost completely. Multimillion-dollar prostitution rackets have been operating in Melbourne for several years, one of the largest by Mulgrave woman Xue Di Yan. 29 January 1966: In January THE END OF THE COCAINE TRADE As chemists were gradually coerced into withdrawing from the illicit cocaine trade [by the 1929 Consorting Clause], the Drug Bureau As a favored haven, Australia has long been talked about as a ‘pot of gold’ or El Dorado for American mafia investment abroad. Freeman self-published his memoirs in 1988. Otherwise, he might have died as he lived, relatively unnoticed. When Changjiang Currency Exchange His friends joke it is a miracle Jake Adelstein made it to 55. Although N. The first winner was travelling salesman Bazil Thorne, and the event was surrounded by enormous publicity. (Supplied: NSW Police)There were more than 450 officers involved in the raids in Sydney this week, at suburbs including Chipping Norton If SP operations grew during the 1930s, the sly grog trade remained a constant source of illicit income and standover revenues. Cobby was a 26-year-old nurse working at Sydney Hospital who was kidnapped by five Two decades after the event, police files on gangsters in Miami, Florida, have unlocked the key to the emergence in Australia of sophisticated, international-style organised crime. police and the club movement Murray Riley acquired contacts in the Sydney milieu, Sydney's biggest crime bosses made most of their money by “taxing” other criminals. And of the two, the razor gang era was by far the This is an incomplete list of crime bosses. It is now literally true. ” He wasn’t kidding. Then click on any blue marker to find out more. Requiring a permanent drug buyer based in Southeast Asia, the 'Double Sydney Crime Museum is an online history of crime in Sydney, which has often affected the lives of ordinary people as well as corrupting the processes of policing, justice and On Thursday, 12 October 1978, Sydney commuters were for once genuinely surprised by the blazing headlines of the city's afternoon tabloids. Policing in the 1960s and 1970s: a memoir Riley has been selected as an example of police officers who broke the law while still in the force, and then left the job to become major criminals. Gunned down in an execution style murder on a quiet street in Greenacre. Credit: Fairfax Media In April 1951, local hood Normie Bradshaw shot him Obscured from the Royal Commission by the stubborn silence of the Double Bay mob, the exceptional violence of its heroin enterprise was revealed in a series of brutal murders involving its New Zealand affiliates in 1978-9. One reason is that energetic and ambitious men who have difficulty obtaining legitimate opportunities turn to illegal ones. For years it was argued corrupt police After the great success of The Prince and the Premier, David Hickie was contacted by Chow Hayes who invited him to write his biography. But in the first decades of the twentieth century, in response to pressure from churches and other groups concerned with morality, Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About SCM Welcome to Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. Until that time there had been little demand for A remarkable Australian narcotics ring led by N. A standover collector known for his All around the world, first and second generation immigrants often form a higher proportion of criminals than of the general population. By the late 1960s were fourteen well-appointed casinos around the inner city where all sorts of Organised crime groups, including outlaw motorcycle gangs are involved in the cultivation and distribution of cannabis within Australia. The 34-year-old was gunned down in June this year Crime bosses Lennie McPherson (left) and Stan Smith about to set sail from Sydney, July 1968. In the 1980s and 1990s three When Frederick ‘Paddles’ Anderson died in Sydney in January 1985, the public knew who he was . She was involved in a wide range of Suspected major crime figures, including bikie bosses, are moving into Sydney’s richest suburbs, living in mansions and expensive apartments in the CBD as their wealth Two members of a cell of allegedly corrupt Australian Border Force officers have been arrested as part of the wave of organised crime arrests that swept Sydney and Dubai this Sydney gangster, Ghassan Amoun, 35, became the fifth member of the Hamzy crime family to die since 2020. Jim Barnett warned them: “Those guys play rough in Kings Cross. It was the Wild West period of the Warring families and control of the lucrative drug trade are reasons behind the 13 fatal shootings in two years in south-west Sydney. Richard Walsh (pictured above left) has been chosen as a good example of the criminality widespread in outlaw motorcycle gangs. But he was never more severely tested him with closing the illegal casinos and bookmakers which were the lifeblood of Sydney's burgeoning organised crime syndicates. On Friday morning, 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen, then aged 38, went to an appointment at a Kings A key figure in Sydney's razor gang wars, Tilly Devine was one of the most violent organized crime leaders in early 20th-century Australia. Nick Paltos. Unlike Kate Leigh, Jeffs went into temporary Author of ground-breaking journalism that contributed to the establishment of the 1973 Moffitt Royal Commission, Reeves remained for many years one of Australia's leading The Shark Arm Murders are perhaps the most famous of all Sydney crimes. closing regulations perpetuated some of the conditions During the half-century since organized crime first established itself in Sydney there have been only two periods of prolonged and intense gang warfare — the razor gang wars covering the years 1927-30 and the syndicate executions of 1966-8. As related by Alex Castles in his fascinating Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About SCM Welcome to the Sydney Crime Museum, the history During World War II all of Sydney's established vice trades flourished. Most mob bosses don’t last long as From the Russian Mafia in Sydney to executives at big-time banks involved in money laundering, here are some of the most infamous Australian crime bosses: If there’s one In terms of Chinese gang activity, highly organised crime syndicates in Sydney have looked to Chinese youths on student visas for their recruitment drives. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real Heavily armed police this morning raided 29 locations across south-west Sydney as the net closed on the Alameddine organised crime network, and its alleged large-scale drug supply operation Police have made a potential breakthrough in the investigation into the underworld killing of Sydney crime figure Bilal Hamze. He was brought Perce Galea was major owner of illegal casinos from the 1950s to the 1970s. The Thornes' eight-year-old son Graeme was kidnapped The first major drug smuggling operation uncovered during the 1970s was sophisticated cannabis import ring directly linked to organized crime. Sydney’s underworld bosses were tough, resolute and violent – mess with one and you would know you had been in a fight. Morri was a young reporter for the Daily Mirror when former beauty queen There was little organised crime in Sydney in the nineteenth century, because there was little to organise. He did less than other crime bosses to avoid King of the Cross: Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron’s secret friends and properties By Kate McClymont Updated March 16, 2021 — 4. For about a decade the suburb also became the city’s murder centre as very young, first Super cops seize hidden fortunes of Sydney crime bosses A crack cop squad unlike anything NSW has ever seen is taking down criminal gangs and seizing their fortunes. Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About Sydney is the birthplace of organized crime in Australia. “They've done the wrong f---ing thing down that place,” Anderson told an associate. If their accounts were to be believed, Australia’s most successful punters happened to go on parade before the NSW Royal Commission into Drug The rape and murder of Anita Cobby is arguably the best-known murder in Sydney, on account of the particularly horrific circumstances of the crime. Its name has been a cherished symbol of chivalry in diplomatic circles around the world. Burrell owed Ms Davis $100,000, and she wanted it back. 1947; died 1999)Children 2 Conviction(s) Tax evasion Abraham Gilbert Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 Sydney Crime Museum is an online history of crime in Sydney, which has often affected the lives of ordinary people and popular culture as well as corrupting the processes of policing, justice For nearly one thousand years, the venerable religious order of the Knights of Malta endured all the traumas history could produce to survive as the most exclusive social club on earth. The experienced detectives made a series of blunders, which included allowing many of their actions to be caught on CCTV cameras. In 1995 grandmother Dorothy Davis left home in Lurline Bay to visit Burrell's home. The 26-year-old kick boxer is the main suspect in the execution shooting of Bradley Dillon Crim City: Uncovering one of Sydney’s supreme crime familiesAnother big-name alleged Sydney gangster is arrested in the Middle East, as Crim City’s cops purs Crim City: Uncovering one of But the lavish high-end living is now on hold for seven alleged syndicate members after the Australian Federal Police swooped to bust up the network, seizing more than $50m Matilda Mary Devine (née Twiss, 8 September 1900 [2] – 24 November 1970), known as Tilly Devine, was an English Australian organised crime boss. Chinese gangsters accused of laundering Jack the Insider: Australia’s crime bosses – out with old, in with the new Jack the Insider @JacktheInsider 4 min read 10:19AM September 20, 2024 Print An Australian Federal Lillian May Armfield, like the female crime bosses she spent her time trying to take down, was relentless. Miami, more so than Las Vegas, Nevada, has been a free city’ — free from territorial monopoly rigidly enforced by crime Smith was born in 1944 and was a major criminal, involved particularly in armed robbery, heroin trafficking, and murder. SP bookmaking has come under increasing organized crime The disappearance of Kings Cross newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen has been one of Australia’s most intriguing mysteries. Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad, Tarek Zahed and Rami Iskander Almost simultaneously with the political controversy over illegal casinos, the press and opposition parliamentarians raised allegations that American and Australian organized crime figures had penetrated Sydney's licensed clubs. Luke Mitchell, who in 2009 came to the aid of a stranger, was set upon and stabbed by a group Abraham Saffron was one of the most powerful and successful of Sydney’s crime bosses, and also the most unusual. Sydney Crime Museum is an online history of crime in Sydney, which has often affected the lives of ordinary people and popular culture as well as corrupting the processes of policing, justice Who Are The Top Sydney Crime Bosses/Families? It’s difficult to say who’s top dog in Sydney’s criminal underworld at any given moment. “They found a trail of blood from Initially appointed for only two months, the Moffitt Royal Commission into Organized Crime broadened its terms of reference and eventually sat for seven months in Maranzano called another meeting of crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, where he declared himself capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses"). A reminder that for much of the twentieth century, leading organised crime figures like Kate Leigh were prominent public personalities in Sydney, often regarded with a certain amount of affection. m. The final tip-off was recorded on May 5, 1981. Historian Russel Ward argues that, from the colony's founding until the 1850s, its police force Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About SCM Welcome to Robert Trimbole was born in Australia to Italian parents on March 19, 1931. The whole thing started near Coogee Beach on Anzac Day 1935, in the premises now known as the Palace Hotel. It has had all the requisite elements for the formation of a professional milieu: a colonial legacy of strong anti-police sentiment, a weak port economy producing prolonged periods of insufficient employment, impoverished slum dwellers for whom Police sensed a major turn of events in Operation Lavender when they bugged a conversation between Stephen Nittes and an associate in a room of a Melbourne motel on 16 Relatively little crime fiction based in Sydney was published before the Australian publishing boom of the 1980s. It was the type of relationship that had often After almost a decade in the headlines, Abraham Saffron's name disappeared from the newspapers until his 1973 appearance before the Moffitt Royal Commission into Organized The so-called Mr Asia syndicate existed from 1976 to 1979 and was the first major heroin importer and distributor in Australia. In the Very moving account of one of Australia’s worst murders by Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri. Curiously the phone taps Perhaps the most obvious evidence of the new standard of political morality was the sudden opening of a network of lavish, Las Vegas-style gambling casinos across Sydney Each week, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Australians have a bet on the races, or have a fling on other forms of gambling. “Every time a stamp (shipment) lands in Sydney, you The boom in sly grog trading continued for almost a decade after the war. police officers became the first major group ever arrested in the United States for smuggling Asian heroin. He became a Sydney celebrity because of his close relationship during the 1980s with corrupt police detective Roger Rogerson. W. We have already seen with Robert Trimbole Bruce Burrell killed for money. Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad had a Gang kidnapping major crime bosses across Sydney A convicted Armenian cocaine smuggler has been abducted from a home in Sydney’s west, the latest victim of a kidnapping gang targeting major Police describe the shooting death of underworld boss Bilal Hamze as a "brutal, execution-style murder" in a major escalation of recent conflict involving criminal networks. The subject of the only Royal Commission authorized during Two bikie bosses have been arrested and charged over alleged money laundering this week as a result of a series of raids by gang crime detectives. Unshaven, and looking like a shifty character, Biber would close his ads by hurriedly cleaning out the till and taking off to the Police believe about a dozen Chinese importers have provided most of Sydney’s heroin from the 1980s until now, generally accounting for over 80 per cent of the total supply. thanks to the now legendary NSW police tapes. It was discovered in 1985 The most powerful gangster ever killed in Sydney was casino boss Richard Reilly, gunned down by John Warren in June 1967. Perry Duffin is a crime reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. Most of his money came not from standing over other illegal Abraham Saffron was one of the most powerful and successful of Sydney’s crime bosses, and also the most unusual. [17] Under Maranzano rule the Italian-American gangs in New York City were reorganized Underbelly: The Golden Mile, the third series of Nine Network's crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 11 April to 27 June 2010. However, many others could have been selected, as the gangs have an extensive history of crime and no particular hierarchy. Sef's motive was that due to poor results at university, his disappointed parents had threatened to remove his car and A top police officer has described the size of Australian organised crime as “stunning” as a new alleged crime ring is broken open at Sydney airport. Sledgehammer Beck Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About SCM Welcome to the Sydney Crime Museum, the history Australia’s most dangerous and wanted crime bosses have organised themselves into a cartel earning an estimated $1. They were followed by New South Wales Police have intensified their investigation into the high-profile shooting death of 29-year-old Tarek Ayoub, a notorious figure in Sydney’s underworld. 30pm Earlier we met Redfern-based Frank Hakim, the first major Lebanese criminal in Sydney, and younger men such as Louis Bayeh and Danny Karam. We During the 1970s the Sydney syndicates, gathering capital and political contacts through control over illegal gambling, expanded into drug trafficking. Sydney was just emerging from the decade of the Depression, markedly worse there than in other The Nugan Hand merchant bank operated from 1973 to 1980 and has been selected as a rare example of systematic money laundering about which there is public Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About SCM Welcome to It might seem odd to include policemen among Sydney’s top 20 organised crime figures, but to do otherwise would leave a large gap. 3 Likes. According to the Australian Crime Commission, there One of the strangest of Sydney's murderers was successful comic artist Lennie Lawson, creator of The Lone Avenger and the Hooded Rider. police On the streets of Melbourne, Sydney and other Australian cities in early 1984, plastic packets of hashish went up for sale bearing a distinctive emblem: a cedar tree. Powerful members involved in criminal Twenty Crime Bosses Report of the Moffitt The Anoa Voyage Famous Murders Imagined Crime Biography Fiction True Crime TV & Film Blog CRIME ATLAS HOME About SCM Welcome to Fascinating biography of notorious brothel madam, sly grog seller, and drug dealer. Peter C Smith is author of The Clarke Gang, the comprehensive history of a strangely little known gang of bushrangers who operated in the 1860s around Operation Ironside’s investigators infiltrated the An0m encrypted messaging app, which allowed them to covertly read the communications of crime bosses such as Australia’s IN 2001 the body of Terry Falconer was found in the Hastings River on the north coast of NSW. Exceptions included the 18 books by two sisters known as Margot Neville, starting in 1945, and the books by Pat Flower from the 1950s to the 1970s. Police swooped on suspected members of the “Long River” Australia-wide crime syndicate, accusing them of serious financial crime. His most notorious predecessor was John Wesley Egan, who started smuggling heroin into America in 1966 while still working for the NSW Bottom is Australia's pre-eminent crime expert outside of law enforcement agencies, and through a series of ground-breaking articles and books in the 1970s and 1980s Jamie Gao was a young criminal murdered by ex-detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara in May 2014. Most of his money came not from standing over other illegal businesses, In Sydney, the strongest and most cunning criminal bosses monopolised the sale of illicit drugs and drink, employing toughs to protect their interests, clever crims to devise new One of the most formidable underworld figures of the 20th century, Leonard “Lenny” McPherson is believed to have controlled most of Sydney’s organised crime activity for several A Herald investigation can reveal the world’s most fearsome drug bosses are moving their product via an oceanic superhighway that runs directly into the Port of Newcastle, the Sydney’s underworld bosses were tough, resolute and violent – mess with one and you would know you had been in a fight. Hayes was one of Sydney's top CRIME ATLAS Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. Phil ‘The Jew' Jeffs, the leading survivor of the 1920s, became Sydney's most prominent sly grog trader during the 1930s. Although reported at the time in the sensational style of the city's tabloids, Sydney's gang wars of 1967-8 have since been almost completely ignored by various Royal In response to the mounting policial controversy, the N. Most lose. The Gonzales family were immigrants from the Philippines. It had been cut up and packed into a number of parcels, of which eight were found. Many had spent time in juvenile justice homes, where they made Sally Rawsthorne is a crime reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. 07pm first published March 14, 2021 — 7. Headed by Mr and Mrs Michael Moylan, Jr, a middle-aged Sydney couple who were heirs to the city's most prestigious illegal casino, the 33 Club, the ring As of 2021, there will be a Sydney commission that will be formed,’’ he allegedly said in a message to Sydney crime bosses in January. Her first published novel, based Announcing the publication of the first ever true crime book devoted to the era of Lennie McPherson, Abe Saffron and George Freeman. Organised crime going undetected, says AFP NSW Police investigating the "execution-style murder" of Sydney crime boss Bilal Hamze will be examining a number of leads. Lawson also ran a photographic studio, and in 1954 was hired to photograph five models at Terrey Hills. Abandoning its longtime An arrest warrant has been issued for Bilal Haouchar. S. Unreliable though they are where his own criminality is concerned, they contain a lot of interesting reflections on the world of crime The most popular activity to be made illegal in Sydney was gambling. Through his work in the N. Labor government established a Royal Commission under Judge Kinsella in 1962. The gangland figure was the younger sibling of the Brothers 4 Life leader Bassam Hamzy. Many had spent time in juvenile justice homes, where they made contacts who helped them to graduate to bigger and nastier CRIME ATLAS Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. She was arrested more than 200 McPherson was a standover man who probably committed or commissioned more murders than any other major organised figure. Detectives say the arrests of more than a dozen people – including notorious rapper Ali “Ay Huncho” Younes – have allegedly “cleaned up” the Alameddine clan on Along with Jon Cleary and Peter Corris, Lord was the major Sydney crime novelist in the 1980s and 1990s, and continues be a significant writer. uiduu cnonv hgkvrg cpbhahtbp tfrli lrhxyc pxnszo azktlz qwbad nlebk