Kill The Morans – Brett Quine

The success of the Great Bookie Robbery itself had merely helped to cement already strong bonds. Armed with sub-machine guns, Bennett’s well-rehearsed crew relieved stunned bookmakers of their proceeds on their settling day at the central Melbourne club. Still officially unsolved, the heist saw robbers escape with what was reported to be $1.4 million, but it has long since rumoured to be worth up to $12 million in takings.

Some have suggested $15 million. Whatever the amount, it was extracted from the bookies with military precision and with such skill and authority that not a shot was fired. It remains the stuff of legends. Bennett was also a leader of the Kangaroo Gang, which toured many of the more ritzy jewellers and fashion boutiques across the United Kingdom and Europe so that they might relieve them of their overpriced trinkets and garments.

His career highlights have been well canvassed by various media. But what you will not have learnt elsewhere is the fact I’m about to land on your noggins right now. You see, Chuck Bennett was the one known to a very select and important few to have snubbed more than the Kanes, but also the very senior corrupt police who demanded a cut of the take through the Kanes.

That was the way it went. If our boys had a big score, certain police expected a sling so they would turn a blind eye or bugger up the investigation in some way. These police were long familiar with the comforts afforded them by a cut of the criminal action, even before the days of spiking any suspicions reported about mother Moran’s backyard abortion clinic in North Melbourne.

So these cops, the same ones who had copped a regular sling from the Morans and others over many years, thought something had to be done about this upstart Bennett. To some among my peers, the execution of Bennett, with glaringly obvious police assistance, was akin to the crucifixion of a criminal Christ. Some, like the Morans, saw it coming; others would never accept what remains a very public police sanctioned murder.

A natural leader with charisma and a good sense of humour, Bennett had the genuine affection of his crew, some of whom would acknowledge him as the General. His supporters were many and their anger boiled over with the police complicity in his assassination being all but brushed aside, neatly aired and shoddily dismissed by a heavily compliant media of that era. While some in the popular media have seen fit to pooh-pooh any real police involvement, remember this belief comes from people very close to the Victoria Police. For decades up to at least the late 1970s, senior newspaper correspondents and senior police shared adjacent offices at the Russell St police headquarters, and many drinking sessions.

They shared lives.

To Tommy Ivanovic and Paddy Barbaro, the forgotten men ‘There are only two types of people in this world. Those who can do jail and those who can’t.’ Bert Wrout ‘Just when I thought I was out…’ Brett Quine OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Cheap Beer Got Us Killed Chapter 2 Rest in Purgatory, Scumbag Chapter 3 Sheep, Soldiers and SPs Chapter 4 My Betrayal Chapter 5 Morans – or Morons? Chapter 6 Our Local Chapter 7 Truth or Tooheys?

Chapter 8 The Alphonse Execution Chapter 9 The Wake-Up Call that Wasn’t Chapter 10 Australia’s Most Feared Chapter 11 The Sport of Kings and Kanes Chapter 12 The Dapper Dow Chapter 13 Joker Takes All Chapter 14 Who Knocked Mr Rentakill? Chapter 15 Dirty Ds and the Sex Vampire Chapter 16 Strange Bedfellows Chapter 17 The Fall of Flash Floyd Chapter 18 Why the Morans had to Die Chapter 19 Millions, Baby! Chapter 20 The Final Whack OceanofPDF.com INTRODUCTION ‘Kill the Morans, and all their crew!’

Those words, allegedly screeched by a callow, hateful shrew called Roberta Williams, sum up the whole Melbourne gangland war as the famous blood frenzy immortalised on TV screens across the nation. The words haunt me still, and the hardest thing I’ve had to explain out of this saga, not only to myself but to everybody else, is why did I stay with Lewis Moran knowing he was a dead man walking?

It’s a question I’ve been asked countless times, by friend and foe alike. In the end there were two overriding reasons. One, he owed me a shitload of money I would otherwise have had little chance of collecting. And the other was a twisted sense of loyalty. At the end of the day, Lewis was a rat. He gave me up without any compunction at all when things got tough. He was a weak, cowardly dog who thought only of himself. Sure, we had many great times, as do any friends when there are no obstacles.

But this worm would have masqueraded as a woman on the Titanic to save himself.

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