Friday, August 25, 2006

Crimestoppers has received a number of calls since appealing to the public for information in relation to the Iaria inquiry.

Coroner's findings in Iaria case

After another rather apparent tangle with the Blogspot leprechauns please find below..

I know many people have been searching for the coronial findings in the Iaria case, I can't vouch for the website as I am unfamiliar with it, however this is a link to a website that has published the findings.

Old school

Former bank robber and journalist of note, Bernie Matthews, is also bringing out a book about his life.

Matthews is one of the few survivors of a NSW hellhole called Katingal, which violated so many human rights conventions, it was judged unlawful for it to even be called a prison.

Mr Matthews has made a lifetime of fighting injustices perpetrated against him and others in the prison system, covering freedom of speech, transparency and law reform.

So far as tough guys go, this guy wrote the book, about crime, justice, turning one's life around and the zen of incarceration and rehabilitation.

The book is on the shelves in October, and if you wish to be able to view life from a higher perspective, read it.

More postcards from the edge

Derek Pedley has had a second go at getting Brenden Abbott's story right, with the "Postcard Bandit's" ongoing guidance in the preparation, apparently.

The first book was littered with public sector protocol, fear of crime and good old newspapers' good guys-bad guys them & us type social exclusion, amongst a number of fairly romanticized realities from a young journalist, Pedley, who I am assuming also lacked experience of the other side of the tracks life.

The QLD prison authorities have taken the definition of hard time to heart and disallowed Brenden Abbott from reading the final copy despite him having read all the drafts up to that point.

Let's hope the book explores the true reality of the Rivervale bank robber's gritty existance and evil genius, where miscast flick, The Postcard Bandit, tragically didn't.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Does your blog have soul? Well now you can profit from it, someone's willing to buy it for $16 p/hr(is that close to any award wage for a writer?)

Friday, August 18, 2006

The Flute returns, or is he just teasing?

Bovine profanity

Twenty Major examines the flexibility & the multifunctionality of the cuNext Tuesday word and decries the lack of progress in swear words - not a post for well-mannered or faint-hearted.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Coroner releases report on Iaria murder

This week Coroner Paresa Spanos released the final report into the murder of 20 year old Rocky Iaria, who was bound and shot in the back, most likely, by his former co-ee and other parties unknown.

In what no doubt has been a long ordeal for the Iaria family, the coroner named the probable suspect, who was arrested two weeks ago on unrelated charges, in a raid on an alleged organized crime syndicate.

Mr Iaria went missing in September 1991, the coroner said it was likely he was killed by a number of people at Shepperton Cemetery where his body was found in 1998.

At this stage no one has been arrested in the fifteen year old murder case and the $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest remains unclaimed. Police are seeking a possible witness who sent evidence to them which was linked to the case.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Leprechauns ate my post...after trying to post two times on Saturday only to have the blogspot leprechauns hide them, or parts of them, I threw in the towel.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Gone Fishing...back Satdee