1 00:00:05,921 --> 00:00:07,281 Speaker 1: Approche production. 2 00:00:18,121 --> 00:00:20,281 Speaker 2: I can't say. Look, I was looking at ten years 3 00:00:20,281 --> 00:00:22,441 Speaker 2: and got six, and I was a prick for two 4 00:00:22,481 --> 00:00:24,281 Speaker 2: years that I had to learn to shut his fucking 5 00:00:24,361 --> 00:00:27,521 Speaker 2: mouth and just deal with it and move forward from it. 6 00:00:27,761 --> 00:00:31,441 Speaker 2: You had thirteen years, brother, thirteen years of constant kicks 7 00:00:31,441 --> 00:00:32,601 Speaker 2: in the guts. 8 00:00:33,641 --> 00:00:35,601 Speaker 1: And yet I could have went the other way. 9 00:00:35,641 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: But you know, one hundred percent, I don't know too 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,121 Speaker 2: many men that wouldn't have gone that way. 11 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: But I've been That's what I'm saying. I've been blessed. 12 00:00:42,281 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 3: You know, when I say blessed, I believe that I've 13 00:00:46,241 --> 00:00:49,361 Speaker 3: been blessed because I had a lot of good people 14 00:00:49,441 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 3: around me, you know, like and that's why he molded me. 15 00:00:54,001 --> 00:00:57,041 Speaker 3: You know, the time that I spent in the first 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,321 Speaker 3: couple of years, I was angry, but he molded me 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,521 Speaker 3: into a softer person, and he made me look at 18 00:01:03,561 --> 00:01:07,041 Speaker 3: life a lot different more the years that I've done. 19 00:01:07,321 --> 00:01:09,361 Speaker 3: You know, it should have made me more miss he 20 00:01:09,401 --> 00:01:11,881 Speaker 3: should have made me miserable. But what he done, he 21 00:01:11,961 --> 00:01:14,001 Speaker 3: blossoed me. You know, it was like a flower and 22 00:01:14,081 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 3: it came from nothing. 23 00:01:15,241 --> 00:01:18,041 Speaker 4: You know, I don't remember in the in the slot 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,121 Speaker 4: whatever call them, is it some flowers, then orange little 25 00:01:24,601 --> 00:01:29,201 Speaker 4: I remember in the conk from like a crack concrete. 26 00:01:28,721 --> 00:01:30,761 Speaker 1: They used to come out some flowers. 27 00:01:30,801 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 3: And I used to look at it, and I'm thinking, 28 00:01:32,721 --> 00:01:36,121 Speaker 3: in the hardest place in the world or just all 29 00:01:36,161 --> 00:01:40,401 Speaker 3: concrete everywhere, it was still beauty. And it was like, 30 00:01:41,241 --> 00:01:46,041 Speaker 3: look what he had to go through to blossom lot 31 00:01:46,081 --> 00:01:49,201 Speaker 3: to just like to open his arms and just like 32 00:01:50,761 --> 00:01:53,281 Speaker 3: to become the of the flower it was, you know, 33 00:01:53,481 --> 00:01:55,001 Speaker 3: to call it Sun's flower, you know. 34 00:01:55,401 --> 00:01:58,081 Speaker 1: And I used to look at it and I'm thinking, out, 35 00:01:58,281 --> 00:01:59,841 Speaker 1: that's what That's what I wanted to know. 36 00:02:00,281 --> 00:02:04,321 Speaker 3: I don't want this joint to make me a miserable person. 37 00:02:04,321 --> 00:02:06,921 Speaker 3: I don't want this want to make me hard. You know, 38 00:02:07,121 --> 00:02:08,521 Speaker 3: a lot of guys to come out of a job. 39 00:02:08,881 --> 00:02:11,841 Speaker 3: I'm a tough camp whatever, you know, because the time whatever. 40 00:02:12,441 --> 00:02:14,481 Speaker 3: But what for men like at the end of the day, 41 00:02:14,561 --> 00:02:16,721 Speaker 3: on all these guys you're trying to impress, You're not 42 00:02:16,721 --> 00:02:17,921 Speaker 3: going to know him five years, is not. 43 00:02:17,921 --> 00:02:19,641 Speaker 1: Going to know him ten years. This guy's not going 44 00:02:19,721 --> 00:02:20,081 Speaker 1: to come here. 45 00:02:20,361 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: No one cares about the wall stones. 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:23,041 Speaker 4: You know. 47 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,561 Speaker 3: And and to me it was like, you know what, 48 00:02:25,721 --> 00:02:29,361 Speaker 3: I want to leave a mark in this world and 49 00:02:29,401 --> 00:02:30,081 Speaker 3: I want people. 50 00:02:30,321 --> 00:02:31,041 Speaker 1: I want to live. 51 00:02:31,161 --> 00:02:33,641 Speaker 3: When I say I want to live forever, I want 52 00:02:34,161 --> 00:02:37,401 Speaker 3: my my my story and my soul to live forever 53 00:02:37,481 --> 00:02:40,081 Speaker 3: because I want I wanted to live for others in 54 00:02:40,121 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: the sense of your leave. 55 00:02:41,841 --> 00:02:44,361 Speaker 1: When you live a mark with someone. 56 00:02:44,641 --> 00:02:48,601 Speaker 3: They carry that, They carry that and pay it forward 57 00:02:48,641 --> 00:02:51,721 Speaker 3: and it's it's it's you living through them. 58 00:02:51,921 --> 00:02:55,801 Speaker 1: Even if you pass away, you still live. Can I 59 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:56,441 Speaker 1: ask you something? 60 00:02:56,841 --> 00:03:02,281 Speaker 2: Yes, you have dreams of having a family children. 61 00:03:03,361 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: I want a big family now, I want six seven kids. 62 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: Got me good, bro, got me good? 63 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:19,561 Speaker 1: Got me real good? 64 00:03:19,881 --> 00:03:20,201 Speaker 3: M hm. 65 00:03:21,361 --> 00:03:25,441 Speaker 2: Your legal team A lot of people get sacked that 66 00:03:25,601 --> 00:03:28,081 Speaker 2: representing people convicted wrongly. 67 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: You know a lot of a lot of people go through. 68 00:03:32,601 --> 00:03:38,321 Speaker 2: Different barristers, different lawyers, just turn them over. Can I 69 00:03:38,321 --> 00:03:40,721 Speaker 2: can I ask without being rude and please tell me 70 00:03:40,841 --> 00:03:40,961 Speaker 2: you do? 71 00:03:41,001 --> 00:03:41,761 Speaker 1: I have to answer it. 72 00:03:41,761 --> 00:03:46,481 Speaker 2: But how have you been able to maintain that that 73 00:03:46,481 --> 00:03:50,721 Speaker 2: that affording that too? I mean that's hundreds and hundreds 74 00:03:50,721 --> 00:03:51,921 Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars. 75 00:03:52,481 --> 00:03:57,721 Speaker 3: My family suffered a lot. Yeah, they gave up a 76 00:03:57,761 --> 00:04:03,521 Speaker 3: lot to fight for my freedom. You know when I 77 00:04:03,521 --> 00:04:07,921 Speaker 3: will never forget it. Whatever I do in life, would 78 00:04:07,921 --> 00:04:11,121 Speaker 3: never pay back what they've done. For me, you know, 79 00:04:11,241 --> 00:04:16,641 Speaker 3: and the suffering and everything else they're going through. And 80 00:04:16,721 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 3: my lawyers, my first lawyer, Bill Douges, he's he's a 81 00:04:21,241 --> 00:04:27,281 Speaker 3: beautiful man. I remember after my trial, I left the 82 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: firm like because I was so upset. It wasn't his fault. 83 00:04:31,201 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: I went to a different firm. And I've done what 84 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,441 Speaker 3: they've done and didn't get the verdict. And and Bill 85 00:04:38,801 --> 00:04:43,801 Speaker 3: even Christmas times and that I'm a Muslim and all, 86 00:04:44,201 --> 00:04:46,401 Speaker 3: like would I celebrate Christmas. 87 00:04:46,401 --> 00:04:48,481 Speaker 1: But the end of the day, he used to send me 88 00:04:48,561 --> 00:04:51,001 Speaker 1: Christmas cards. I used to send him Christmas cards. 89 00:04:51,001 --> 00:04:51,161 Speaker 3: You know. 90 00:04:51,841 --> 00:04:53,161 Speaker 1: He used to write me letters. 91 00:04:53,161 --> 00:04:56,681 Speaker 3: You know, you know, you guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna 92 00:04:56,761 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 3: make sure that your name gets cleared. And I'll never 93 00:05:00,361 --> 00:05:03,641 Speaker 3: forget that, you know. And yeah, he's still with me now, 94 00:05:04,281 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 3: finding the killing my name. And I remember even after 95 00:05:07,361 --> 00:05:12,321 Speaker 3: my trial, he wrote, he wrote this beautiful letter and 96 00:05:12,401 --> 00:05:15,601 Speaker 3: put it up on his law firm, and I'll never 97 00:05:15,641 --> 00:05:16,001 Speaker 3: forget it. 98 00:05:16,041 --> 00:05:17,241 Speaker 1: Like my sister read it to me. 99 00:05:18,841 --> 00:05:21,281 Speaker 3: And he said, you know, I didn't do a trial 100 00:05:21,521 --> 00:05:23,601 Speaker 3: after yours for a very long time. 101 00:05:23,681 --> 00:05:27,161 Speaker 1: And he affected him. He goes in some cases. 102 00:05:26,801 --> 00:05:30,001 Speaker 3: In life where you don't get over it, and he 103 00:05:30,041 --> 00:05:32,161 Speaker 3: goes one of your cases, one of them things. He 104 00:05:32,201 --> 00:05:36,081 Speaker 3: goes because I truly believe and I know that you're innocent, 105 00:05:36,081 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: and he goes and I never will give up on you. 106 00:05:38,201 --> 00:05:39,801 Speaker 1: And he's still here fighting for me. 107 00:05:39,761 --> 00:05:40,161 Speaker 3: Now you know. 108 00:05:40,281 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: And he's a beautiful man. 109 00:05:41,961 --> 00:05:46,681 Speaker 3: And yeah, Bill Dougs, it's O'Brien and Dugs in Melbourne, 110 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,521 Speaker 3: very very good lawyer. If you ever looking for anything, 111 00:05:50,121 --> 00:05:50,841 Speaker 3: and if. 112 00:05:50,761 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: You ever looking for a lawyer, look up Bill Dougs. 113 00:05:53,521 --> 00:05:56,121 Speaker 1: He's a great man. And yeah, a great team. I've 114 00:05:56,161 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: got a great team now, very special human to be 115 00:05:58,561 --> 00:05:59,041 Speaker 1: still there. 116 00:05:59,161 --> 00:06:00,161 Speaker 2: Now what are we going into? 117 00:06:00,241 --> 00:06:00,401 Speaker 3: Now? 118 00:06:00,401 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: How many years? 119 00:06:01,201 --> 00:06:04,161 Speaker 3: Fifteen years he's been with me? 120 00:06:06,281 --> 00:06:09,201 Speaker 2: How far at the moment do you feel you are 121 00:06:09,361 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: with getting closer to your innocence? 122 00:06:12,201 --> 00:06:13,281 Speaker 3: This year? 123 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:13,921 Speaker 2: Closure? 124 00:06:14,281 --> 00:06:17,961 Speaker 1: Yeah? Closure? Are you able to pursue it? 125 00:06:18,641 --> 00:06:19,481 Speaker 2: Found not guilty? 126 00:06:20,001 --> 00:06:22,241 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what that's that's all we were looking for. 127 00:06:22,481 --> 00:06:24,961 Speaker 3: This is how I look at it. All all the 128 00:06:24,961 --> 00:06:26,801 Speaker 3: money in the world ain't going to bring that time back. 129 00:06:27,641 --> 00:06:29,361 Speaker 3: All I want to do and I've said it from 130 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,721 Speaker 3: day one, Yeah, I just want to clean my name. 131 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,921 Speaker 3: The way, the way I'm going to live. I can 132 00:06:35,961 --> 00:06:38,681 Speaker 3: make money. You know, and that's the honest truth. I 133 00:06:38,801 --> 00:06:41,881 Speaker 3: hear with my with my career and what everything I've 134 00:06:41,921 --> 00:06:44,641 Speaker 3: been through, and I'll write a book whatever I don't. 135 00:06:44,801 --> 00:06:47,881 Speaker 1: I don't need any handouts, you know, like I survived. 136 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,601 Speaker 1: I've survived this long. I don't need anyone to help 137 00:06:51,601 --> 00:06:52,201 Speaker 1: me in that sense. 138 00:06:52,281 --> 00:06:52,441 Speaker 3: You know. 139 00:06:52,921 --> 00:06:54,761 Speaker 2: I think, I think from from the point of view 140 00:06:54,841 --> 00:06:58,201 Speaker 2: of hearing your story and how beautiful and supportive your 141 00:06:58,201 --> 00:06:59,041 Speaker 2: family have been. 142 00:06:59,721 --> 00:07:03,601 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know for me, people like you lost a lot. 143 00:07:04,161 --> 00:07:07,481 Speaker 3: You know that may be taken a lot, but they 144 00:07:07,601 --> 00:07:10,321 Speaker 3: gave me more than they've ever taken. And people never 145 00:07:11,081 --> 00:07:15,041 Speaker 3: I can never explain that properly. They made it. They 146 00:07:15,161 --> 00:07:17,521 Speaker 3: might have taken a bit, but they gave me more 147 00:07:17,641 --> 00:07:20,201 Speaker 3: than they're ever taken because they made me the man 148 00:07:20,241 --> 00:07:21,201 Speaker 3: that I am right now. 149 00:07:21,361 --> 00:07:23,201 Speaker 1: That molded me into this person. 150 00:07:23,561 --> 00:07:28,281 Speaker 3: And I'm very thankful for that because the way I 151 00:07:28,481 --> 00:07:33,881 Speaker 3: look at life and the way I live my life, 152 00:07:34,001 --> 00:07:35,321 Speaker 3: I'm very thankful for that. 153 00:07:35,641 --> 00:07:38,201 Speaker 2: Because can I can I ask you going back to 154 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:42,681 Speaker 2: because you know you were selected for the Commonwealth common 155 00:07:42,721 --> 00:07:47,401 Speaker 2: Wealth Games naturally and I'm only just speculating here, so 156 00:07:47,481 --> 00:07:50,361 Speaker 2: pull me up. They would have wiped it like a 157 00:07:50,361 --> 00:07:55,121 Speaker 2: dirty ass you were just that's it gone. You're a criminal, 158 00:07:55,121 --> 00:07:58,321 Speaker 2: you're a murderer. We can't have any communication contact whatsoever. 159 00:07:58,361 --> 00:08:01,321 Speaker 2: He's gone done, not wait for a verdict. You're just gone. 160 00:08:01,321 --> 00:08:01,841 Speaker 2: You're finished. 161 00:08:02,001 --> 00:08:05,361 Speaker 3: They came and they came and testify against against Smith 162 00:08:05,401 --> 00:08:09,041 Speaker 3: or like to them, it was the prosecution, brang the 163 00:08:09,201 --> 00:08:12,721 Speaker 3: Olympic Board against me Insida. He was an Australian champion, 164 00:08:12,761 --> 00:08:15,361 Speaker 3: blah blah blah. It had nothing to do with the case. 165 00:08:15,641 --> 00:08:16,561 Speaker 3: But they bring him up. 166 00:08:16,961 --> 00:08:19,081 Speaker 2: To me, it was like whatever, so you could be 167 00:08:19,121 --> 00:08:21,321 Speaker 2: seen as some sort of lethal weapon that was actually 168 00:08:21,361 --> 00:08:24,361 Speaker 2: there in a violent act, that had some sort of 169 00:08:24,361 --> 00:08:27,401 Speaker 2: connection with what was going on. They wanted you to 170 00:08:27,481 --> 00:08:31,841 Speaker 2: be portrayed as this machine, this this this dark man 171 00:08:31,921 --> 00:08:35,241 Speaker 2: with this fighting ability that could have caused this to happen. 172 00:08:35,721 --> 00:08:39,201 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why when I came out, that's why 173 00:08:39,201 --> 00:08:41,121 Speaker 3: I didn't go back to the amateurs to you for 174 00:08:41,201 --> 00:08:44,601 Speaker 3: you to go to the Comwell or the Olympics. 175 00:08:44,841 --> 00:08:45,761 Speaker 1: Year, stay amateur. 176 00:08:45,921 --> 00:08:48,361 Speaker 3: And even if I came home, this is how I 177 00:08:48,361 --> 00:08:50,961 Speaker 3: looked at Even if I came home and I bet 178 00:08:51,161 --> 00:08:54,601 Speaker 3: every person in front of me, they would never select 179 00:08:54,641 --> 00:08:57,801 Speaker 3: me to go to the games because it's under the 180 00:08:58,121 --> 00:09:03,001 Speaker 3: it's their choice to select me. It doesn't matter. And 181 00:09:03,241 --> 00:09:05,361 Speaker 3: I looked at I'm not going to waste my time 182 00:09:06,201 --> 00:09:11,361 Speaker 3: sitting here after one one and bet all the all 183 00:09:11,401 --> 00:09:13,881 Speaker 3: the fight is for them to say no, you can't know. 184 00:09:13,961 --> 00:09:16,121 Speaker 3: I said to myself, I'm gonna turn, pray, I'm gonna 185 00:09:16,121 --> 00:09:17,241 Speaker 3: be in them more, and I'm gonna do it. 186 00:09:17,561 --> 00:09:19,561 Speaker 1: Take my TV again here, I fucking have it. 187 00:09:20,081 --> 00:09:22,241 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it the way I want to do it. 188 00:09:22,361 --> 00:09:25,241 Speaker 3: When I turn, I'll do what I want to do. 189 00:09:25,241 --> 00:09:28,281 Speaker 3: I want to fight that they can't hold me down. 190 00:09:28,881 --> 00:09:31,481 Speaker 3: The only the only person who's going to beat me, 191 00:09:31,881 --> 00:09:32,481 Speaker 3: no one. 192 00:09:32,401 --> 00:09:33,401 Speaker 1: You know. 193 00:09:33,481 --> 00:09:35,201 Speaker 2: Like I said, I know that we're getting to that 194 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:38,281 Speaker 2: point where we probably shouldn't go too much further into 195 00:09:38,641 --> 00:09:41,401 Speaker 2: what now is going to happen. So I do want 196 00:09:41,441 --> 00:09:44,561 Speaker 2: to sort of close that that part of our journey 197 00:09:44,601 --> 00:09:47,961 Speaker 2: together today and really start to focus on some really 198 00:09:48,001 --> 00:09:49,961 Speaker 2: positive stuff that I think people are going to love 199 00:09:50,001 --> 00:09:51,801 Speaker 2: to hear of where you are today and you know 200 00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:52,481 Speaker 2: what's happening. 201 00:09:52,521 --> 00:09:55,841 Speaker 3: But I honestly believe after all the laws have changed 202 00:09:55,841 --> 00:09:59,041 Speaker 3: and everything now like the truth it's going to come 203 00:09:59,081 --> 00:10:00,401 Speaker 3: out right now. 204 00:10:00,441 --> 00:10:01,521 Speaker 1: I'm a convictim murderer. 205 00:10:01,801 --> 00:10:04,441 Speaker 3: And that's the and that's the troop about it, Like, 206 00:10:04,561 --> 00:10:05,401 Speaker 3: let's not out of. 207 00:10:05,321 --> 00:10:06,641 Speaker 1: It right now. I am. 208 00:10:06,881 --> 00:10:10,881 Speaker 3: I'm still a convicted murderer in the court of the law, 209 00:10:11,001 --> 00:10:13,201 Speaker 3: the under the law, I'm a convicted murder. Me. 210 00:10:13,481 --> 00:10:16,361 Speaker 1: I know that I'm an innocent man. And it's gonna 211 00:10:16,361 --> 00:10:16,721 Speaker 1: come out. 212 00:10:16,841 --> 00:10:19,721 Speaker 2: Life starting again for mister Baker. 213 00:10:20,641 --> 00:10:22,641 Speaker 1: Now, I said, life never stopped, never. 214 00:10:22,481 --> 00:10:24,481 Speaker 3: Stop, all right, I love it, I love it all right. 215 00:10:25,481 --> 00:10:26,241 Speaker 1: Let me rewind. 216 00:10:26,401 --> 00:10:27,521 Speaker 3: Life has never stopped. 217 00:10:27,521 --> 00:10:28,521 Speaker 1: For mister Kulibaka. 218 00:10:29,121 --> 00:10:32,521 Speaker 3: Yeah, life never stopped because you got to remember life 219 00:10:32,841 --> 00:10:35,961 Speaker 3: is not about all the good times. Life is about 220 00:10:35,961 --> 00:10:39,681 Speaker 3: the rollercase st Yeah, we've got to remember, like you're 221 00:10:39,681 --> 00:10:41,121 Speaker 3: gonna have your ups and downs. 222 00:10:41,161 --> 00:10:43,561 Speaker 1: That's a part of life. And people always say, oh, 223 00:10:43,641 --> 00:10:45,961 Speaker 1: I know the good times and good times. Listen, you've 224 00:10:45,961 --> 00:10:48,641 Speaker 1: gotta go through the ship to enjoy the good. 225 00:10:49,361 --> 00:10:52,481 Speaker 3: If you always have it good and you go have 226 00:10:52,601 --> 00:10:54,841 Speaker 3: some ship times, you never come out of it because 227 00:10:54,841 --> 00:10:56,041 Speaker 3: you've never been for harship. 228 00:10:56,121 --> 00:10:57,361 Speaker 1: You never how to survive