22. TOOLING UP BIG TIME

 

 

 

30 May 1988: Ken Kim’s Sports Store, Altona, Melbourne Take: Eight or nine firearms

CHRIS:

There are three people involved in this robbery but I’m not naming the others. We have a vehicle outside with the engine running and someone in it, while two of us go in and jump the counters. I have an imitation handgun and my comrade has a knife.

We steal between eight and nine shotguns and rifles.

Ken Kim’s is a couple of shops down from the Altona State Bank. I rob that later using firearms from the sports store.

I’m a busy boy; I’m fucking hectic.

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This crime is unsolved until Chris contacts police in 2015 and volunteers his responsibility. He is subsequently charged and in 2016 pleads guilty in Melbourne Magistrates Court.