Desmond Moran senior, father of Lewis and Desmond ‘Tuppence’ Moran, Christmas 1994.

Lewis Moran in 2003

Newspix / Ian Currie

Cardinal Patrick Moran from St Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic Church, North Melbourne. You decide: Church officials at St Mary’s Star of the Sea say that there is absolutely no evidence that Cardinal Patrick Moran is related to Lewis Moran.

Cardinal Moran officially blessed the West Melbourne church, in February 1900. Of course, his face had not been bloated by severe alcohol and cocaine addiction or literally flattened by the likes of Dennis ‘Greedy’ Smith.

St Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic Church, and Foundation Stone (inset).

Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran at Flemington Tabaret, 1994.

A recent photo of Joe ‘Chisel’ Fava.

Pasquale Barbaro was shot dead along with Jason Moran on 21 June 2003 as they watched Jason’s children play in a junior football clinic.

Newspix / Jessica Lee

CCTV still of Bert’s shooting in 2004, with victim (right) and gunman’s arm encircled.

Photo released by Magistrate Jane Patrick in March 2007

While Mr X pleaded guilty to Lewis’s murder as the getaway driver and was sentenced as such, I believe incorrectly, Evangelos ‘Ange’ Goussis copped the blame for the actual shooting of Lewis and pleaded not guilty. Once an Olympic boxing contender, Goussis was already serving a minimum of 15 years for the murder of Lewis Caine when the jury convicted him in May 2008 for killing Lewis Moran. As news of the jury verdict broke, it was also revealed that Goussis was a suspect in the murder of sex vampire, Shane Chartres-Abbott.

Noel Faure was the dog who shot me.

The Age, 27 February 2007, Fairfax Syndication

Bert Wrout at a footy oval and in the backyard of Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran, doing some paperwork.

Pastoral Hotel, Newmarket, Flemington.

Reproduced by permission of State Library of Victoria

The Prince of Wales, the former Polo Club Hotel and the Laurel Hotel, all in Ascot Vale.

Photography Brett Quine

Herald Sun front page, 18 June 2009. See inset of Bert with beer.

Newspix 

Front page of the Herald Sun, 20 April 2010.

Newspix

Bert’s first newspaper column from the Herald Sun, 20 April 2010. The same edition married my first news opinion story to one by Keith Moor – without my knowledge or consent – to run the banner below. Obscene!

The Flower Drum Restaurant, once part owned by ‘The Munster’.

Graham ‘The Munster’ Kinniburgh in 2002.

All images Newspix

How do you protect copyright on an idea such as Judy Moran being ‘little more than an evil Dame Edna’. It’s difficult. Brett Quine sent an email with those exact words to the then editor of the Sunday Age. Nine months later, on 21 June 2009, the above cartoon appeared in its pages. See chapter 5 for a full explanation.

Matt Golding, Fairfax Syndication

The grave of Alphonse Gangitano at Fawkner Cemetery.

Newspix / Alex Coppel

Carl, Benji and a bodyguard frolicking in the waves in 2004. Two down, one to go.

Newspix / Paul Trezise

A Costigan Royal Commission report excerpt from The Age, 18 January 1983.

Despite being a rogue of the highest order, Jack was immortalised in an Australian Racing Hall of Fame painting by Judith Leman, Inaugural Inductees into the Racing Hall of Fame, in 2001. While just a few centimetres on a metre-sized canvas, he nuzzled in near Australia’s most celebrated horse, Phar Lap. In the section pictured here, only a strapper separates Jack from the racing legend.

Reproduced with permission of Judith Leman and the Racing Hall of Fame

Jack Dow at the Kilmore Turf Club in February 2004.

Photo courtesy Anthony Dow

Jack Dow with his wife, Jean, in February 2004.

Photo courtesy Anthony Dow

Mick Cerchi became Mildura royalty in the Sunraysia Daily on 17 June 1997.

Fairfax Syndication

Mick Cerchi, trainer.

Photo by Quentin J. Lang

Boomerang House, Elizabeth Bay, on prime Sydney waterfront. The mansion had a 30-seat cinema, a yacht room and its own deep jetty, if you don’t mind.

Wikipedia

The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 1982, on the death of Peter Fox, who owned Boomerang House.

Fairfax Syndication

Journalist Adam Shand in the tracksuit used by Raymond Bennett to escape a European prison.

Photograph used with permission of Adam Shand

Raymond ‘Chuck’ Bennett.

Chris ‘Rentakill’ Flannery in 1986.

John O’Gready, Fairfax Syndication

Police mug shot of Brian Kane.

Police mug shot of Les Kane.

Detective Sergeant Peter ‘Stash’ Lalor, who allegedly faked an alibi for the killing of vampire, Shane Chartres-Abbott. Investigations saw Sergeant Paul Mullett, then the police union secretary, accused of tipping off Detective Sergeant Lalor that his phone was bugged.

Rodger Cummins, Fairfax Syndication

Police association secretary Paul Mullet appears tongue-tied as he arrives at a hearing at the Office of Police Integrity (OPI) in Melbourne on14 November 2007. He was appearing in the wake of two senior Victoria police figures who had both resigned as a result of the inquiry.

AAP Image/Julian Smith

Wayne Carey in 2004 during a press conference announcing his retirement in Adelaide. In 2008 Carey was charged with three counts of assaulting police and three counts of resisting arrest at his luxury Port Melbourne apartment and was summonsed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.

AAP Image / Rob Hutchison

Grossi Florentino, formerly Florentino Restaurant, Melbourne.

Photograph Brett Quine