John Silvester

Mark “Chopper” Read once declared: “Sydney may have all the razzle-dazzle, but most of the deadly serious work gets done in Melbourne.” Times have changed.

What the overwhelming majority of lawyers fail to see is that the biggest failing in the justice system is ... lawyers.

After a couple of mafia-related murders, I tried to go undercover at a wholesale market, a bag of onions as my bluff – but instead wandered around, narrowly avoiding being hit by forklifts.

Perhaps we need to triage crime as we do injuries in hospitals. Prioritise those on multiple bail counts to fast-track court.

No one (least of all Tony) is suggesting he wasn’t a major drug trafficker but rather that some of the evidence showing he trafficked drugs had been unfairly gathered.

From inside prison, crooks have organised murders, run drug empires and accessed witness lists. One even wrote a book.

The premier and the commissioner were, in effect, holding each other’s testicles with an understanding neither would squeeze.

There is one aspect of the justice system that must be urgently changed to stem the violence against women. That’s in the hands of government. But there is a part men can play now.

There is one aspect of the justice system that must be urgently changed to stem the violence against women. That’s in the hands of government. But there is a part men can play now.

A US crime profile says Mr Cruel was a burglar who escalated to abducting girls. “It is an addiction. You build a tolerance and have to up the game to get the thrill.”