WEBVTT - Lewis Moran's last stand 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.680 We're talking here of a callous and self centered man, 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.360 probably a form of sociopath. As most crooks are. They're 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.200 in their sixties, they're not overly well or overly fit. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.360 They live mostly on rich food and beer, and they're unarmed. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.599 So they are very tempting targets. And guess what happens 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.280 to tempting targets. He turned to Bertie Rout and he said, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.920 I'm off here. That's criminal slang for I'm going to 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.680 be killed. I'm Andrew Rule his life and crimes. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.000 We've talked about the. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:41.040 Sudden death of Andrew benji Veneman, who ran into several 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.239 thirty eight caliber bullets in a back room of a 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:50.919 Carlton restaurant while having a private chat with mcgatto, And 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.720 as everyone knows, that was twenty years ago plus a 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.520 couple of weeks. It's sort of the anniversary period now, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:03.400 And as everyone knows, mcgadow was charged with Andrew Vanneman's murder, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.640 but subsequently was acquitted with a defense of self defense, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:14.600 which is always the best defense, although it doesn't always work, 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:19.920 as we're about to find out. Eight days after benji 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.000 Venomen was shot dead, there was a tit for tat 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:30.640 revenge shooting. It happened in the Brunswick Club hotel in 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.600 Sydney Road, Brunswick, and it was on the thirty first 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.120 of March two thousand and four, which makes it exactly 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:46.160 midweek and eight days after Venomon's death. Now that evening, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.280 let's say five point thirty six o'clock, there was a 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:55.360 gathering of interesting people in another place in Sydney Road. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.280 This was at the bellefora restaurant in Sydney Road. Right 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.160 up was a Brunswick Police station. And at that gattering 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.560 of people there were at least three people of interest 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.400 to us. One was Tony Mockbell, another was his brother, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:15.320 Milad Mockbell, and a third was a highly skilled speed 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:21.480 cooker or am fhetamine's production cook who worked for the 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:26.120 Mockbell family business producing and fetamines. We can't name that fellow, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.040 but I have seen a document that he signed for 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.800 the police later on, and in that statement he says 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.760 that early in that evening, while sitting in that restaurant 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:44.440 opposite the Brunswick Police station, Millard Mockbell leaned over and 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.040 said to him and I quote, that I should go 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.200 straight home that night because lewis Moran was going to 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:56.840 be killed unquote. Now soon afterwards, while our man, the 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.680 speed Cook and the Mockbell. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.520 Brothers are still at this rett. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.680 Suddenly they look out the window and they see a 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.240 huge number of police cars speeding out of the police 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:12.480 garage and turning south and heading down the Sydney Road towards, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:17.360 as it turns out, the Brunswick Club Hotel. So the 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:23.040 balloon had gone up in the prophecy had come true. Now, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.760 unless the Mockbell brothers are psychic or worse psychic, they 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.880 must have had inside knowledge of this hit. And I'm 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.720 tipping that's what happened. They knew because they'd been told, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.320 and they will have been told by the man who 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:45.000 undoubtedly ordered the hit, the late Carl Williams. It's striking 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.920 that Andrew Venomon had been buried just the day before, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.320 So the biggest news story of that day and of 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.880 that week was the burial of Andrew Venemon. There've been 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.160 a big funeral. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.600 Out at a Greek Orthodox church. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.440 In where Sunshine, the same church where Benji Venerman, as 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.120 a nice little clean cut kid, had once been an 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:13.760 older boy, which could be a story in itself, but 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:20.039 now interestingly, the day after his funeral, the Empire strikes back. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.880 Carl Williams has organized the tit. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.160 For tat hit on. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.919 Really the last surviving member in a sense, of his enemies, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.360 the Morans. Now it's not strictly true to say that, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.960 because Lewis Moran's brother, Des Morane or Tappan's Marane, was 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.359 still around, but he wasn't really a big member of 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.520 that crew. From where Carl Williams was sitting, which is 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.400 in a position where he really hated the Mornes. He 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.440 hated the Mornes because five years earlier, in nineteen ninety nine, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.400 on his twenty ninth birthday, he had been shot in 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.200 the belly in his rather large with a very small pistol, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.800 and that had wounded his belly a little bit and 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.400 wounded his pride a lot. And that, of course, as 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.159 everyone listening knows, was the starting point of this underworld war. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.120 It was really a vendetta waged by Carl Williams using 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.720 lots of drug money to pay hit men to shoot 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.440 at his enemies. And his key enemies were the Moran brothers, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.799 Jason and Mark, by this stage already dead one killed 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.000 in the year two thousand one, killed in the year 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.400 two thousand and three, and now their father Lewis, and 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.000 so this was really a sort of a royal flush 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:45.960 of Moran's and clearly organized paid for by Carl Williams 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.960 and or his associates. It's possible that Tony Mackbell was 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.680 mixed up in it as well, because obviously he knew 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.520 about it, so he must have been fairly close to 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:56.599 the organization. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.880 Now let's talk about Barol Lewis. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.880 Lewis at this stage was sixty two years old, fair 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.040 age for a crook who has led a tough life, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.880 done a lot of drinking and smoking, and had a 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.800 lot of fights and all that sort of stuff. It 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.440 seemed to some people at this point that he'd sort 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.120 of lost interest in life, that he didn't have the 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.800 sort of competitive edge that he used to have. We're 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.679 talking here of a callous and self centered man, probably 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.400 a form of sociopath, as most crooks are. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.520 But he was a fellow that had lost. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.839 His own natural born son, Jason. He'd lost Jason's half 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:40.320 brother Mark, who was his basically foster son or adopted son, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:46.120 and he clearly would have been knocked about by those events, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.400 and he would have been deeply aware that his name 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.960 was on a list somewhere and that he was in danger. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.040 He had been warned by the police that, you know, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.680 he shouldn't do routine things and make himself an easy target, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.960 and he had stopped drinking at the Laurel Hotel in 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.559 nasket Vale, much to the relief of the people who 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.400 owned the Laurel. I should point out those people had 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.480 been so keen to get rid of him as a 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.520 regular drinker for some time that they took note of 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.240 his favorite habit of drinking beer from what they call 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:26.320 ponies pony glasses. Older people will recall generally it's a 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.840 reference to five ounce glasses, which are half the size 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.600 of a pot of beer, so they're very small. Some 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.560 people claimed that six ounce glasses or ponies, but I 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.880 don't believe that. And the ponies were used by a 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.480 lot of those old timers who spent a lot of 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.760 time in pubs, a lot of crooks like them, because 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.320 it meant the beer was always cold. You weren't holding 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.960 a great big thing of beer and making it warm. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.560 It meant that they could drink a lot of them 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:59.080 without getting maggoted drunk. They could have you know, a 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.520 dozen ponies, and in the end it wasn't that much 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:08.360 beer compared with drinking seven pots, so they would ultimately 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.800 drink less, I think, and it was colder, and that 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.080 was just their habit. That's what they like to do. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:20.320 A bit of an old fashioned thing among those older crims. Nowadays, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.400 of course they just take drugs. But anyway, so Lewis 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.680 Moran had finally decided that he would leave the Laurel 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.400 hotel and go elsewhere. Before he went, he was the 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.959 subject of a bit of plotting by the owners of 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.520 the Laurel. They said, oh, those ponies, those small glasses 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.960 that you like, Lewis. It's a pity, but they've all 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.560 been broken in the dishwasher and we can't get any more, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.720 and that's a bit sad, So maybe you'll have to 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.680 go to a pub where they've got some. Next day, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.720 a huge carton of brand new pony sized glasses arrived 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.960 at the pub, a gift from Lewis, who had found 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.080 the glass manufacturer who could supply them. So the Publican 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.760 no longer had an excuse to stop him drinking at 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.000 his pub, but where he couldn't get Lewis to move. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.480 The police persuaded Lewis that he was in danger if 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.920 he kept going to the same local pub every night, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.320 and so he moved camps. He went over to very 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.600 tricky this. He moved at least one postcode. He went 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.640 across to the Brunswick Club in Sydney Road. And obviously, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.120 if he was smart, he wouldn't go there every night. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.000 If he was smart, he would have gone to other 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.360 places and broken up his pattern. And perhaps he wouldn't 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.360 have gone at exactly the same time and left it 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.160 exactly the same time and not got home at the 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:44.640 same time, because that makes. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.240 You a very easy target. But he's the problem. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.880 Even though he was a crook who often made a 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.880 lot of money, or had at different times made a 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:59.599 lot of money, he was enormously mean and stingy. And 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.800 he got into the habit of drinking at the Brunswick 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.440 Club hotel because it was a pokey pub and it 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:08.880 had quite cheap beer. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:09.880 The beer there was cheap. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.160 He had a membership card which would get him in there, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.800 and he didn't want to go anywhere else where the 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.720 beer was dearer, and so he and he's old on again, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.520 off again mate. Bertie Rout, who was an old, reprobatant 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.160 rat bag and not nearly as tough or mean or 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.040 bad as Lewis Moran, but he was a crook himself 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.840 in a minor way, and he hung around with all 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.520 those guys, and he was a contemporary of theirs, and 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.600 they were all mixed up with Carlton Football Club, which 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.880 is one of the reasons all that crew were called 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.520 the Carlton Crew because some of them lived in Carlton, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.240 but all of them were heavily associated with watching the 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.800 Carlton football team. In fact, Bertie Rout's father, Jack Rout, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.640 had been a very significant figure at the Carlton Football Club. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.400 I think he'd been one of the early presidents something 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.040 like that. So they were connected up in that sense. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.880 So we've established that Lewis and his old mate drinking mate, 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.359 Bertie Route. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.120 They go to. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.679 The Brunswick Club at a round five point thirty most 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.240 nights and they stay there for like three hours and 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.720 drink fever to beer and then they leave and go 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.880 home and cooked dinner. Lewis was quite an accomplished home cook. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.920 He used to watch cooking shows. They were his favorite things. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.760 And that's what they would do now they saw it. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.400 I think as a bit of a. 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.600 Point of honor that you know, where old style hard men, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.560 crooks blah blah blah. We're not going to be pushed 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.240 out of our routine, We're not going to be told 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.040 what to do, We're not going to dodge around, et cetera. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:54.640 And so they pigheadedly kept going to this Brunswick club. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.400 At this point, both of these guys were on bail, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.760 which meant they couldn't really be carrying guns or weapons 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.520 because that would break their bail conditions. And if they 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.720 were picked up, which I easily could buy, and checked 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.480 by the police, it would mean they'd go straight back 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:16.120 inside on romand because they had certain charges that they 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.880 were facing. And there they were there in their sixties. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.680 They're not overly well or overly fit. They live mostly 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:29.880 on rich food and beer, and they're unarmed, so they 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.640 are very tempting targets. And guess what happens to tempting 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:40.520 targets the week after benji Veneman is killed. Lewis really 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.200 does have a bullseye on him, and so it was 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.040 that at about six forty pm on that day, thirty 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:51.360 first of March two thousand and four, according to Bertie Rout. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:57.040 This is what happened, he says, and I'm not sure 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.640 if the police have established if this is true. Bertie 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:06.319 Rout always claimed for years afterwards that Lewis Moran took 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.959 a phone call which rattled him. He took a phone 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.800 call which left him frightened or in fright and he 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.280 turned the phone off, and Bertie said he looked terrified. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:25.920 And seconds later they hear footsteps running into the bar. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.920 Now it's got a hard wooden floor, and when somebody 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.240 actually runs hard, it would echo, and it would obviously 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.560 be something violent about to happen. And as soon as 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.960 they heard these footsteps running towards them, Lewis who must 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.840 have got some warning on the phone, either a literal threat, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.760 we'll get you now you're dead, or perhaps a call 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:56.720 from someone he knew, which he correctly intuited, was someone 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.520 checking where he was so that that person could give 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.239 the okay to the hit team. Because in the underworld 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.360 there are plenty of people who will play the role 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.440 of Judas, and one of the ways to set up 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.680 a hit in the underworld is that the hit people 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.120 organized for someone known to the target to help them 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.360 tip off where the target is, and it's a funny thing. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.600 In the underworld. There's nearly always someone who will sell 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.560 themselves out for whatever reason, either for money or for 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.640 a favor, or because the other people have threatened them, 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.880 whatever it might be. There's no doubt I think that 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:42.040 Lewis did have a short warning that he was about 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.680 to be attacked. He turned to Bertie about and he said, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.360 I'm off here. That's criminal slang for I'm going. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:49.800 To be killed. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.480 If you're off, someone says I'm going to put him off, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.920 that means I'm going to kill him. It's shorthand. And 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.640 as soon as he said that, he started to run 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.440 across the gaming room from the bar into the gaming 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.640 room and he yelled out to the woman who was 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.080 managing the gaming room, a lady called Sandra Sugars, and said, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.120 out of the way, Sandra words that effect. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.360 But it was too late. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.600 One of the gunmen who had run in, there were 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.880 two of them. They were masked, you know, balaclavis or masks, 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.880 and they had guns plural. One of them had pursued 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.360 Lewis Moran and he went to shoot him at close 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.400 range with a shotgun. I'd presume a sawn off shotgun 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.960 and no, and behold, the shotgun jammed would didn't work, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.400 which makes you think it was probably a sawn Off 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.120 automatic shotgun because the other ones don't jam much. The 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:46.120 single or double shot guns very rarely jam. And that 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.120 didn't work. So that hitman pulled out a heavy caliber 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:55.200 pistol I'd think a revolver and shot Lewis Moran twice 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.000 in the head at point blank range, which killed him instantly. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.840 He was dead before he hit the floor. Sandra Sugars, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.120 the woman who was right there watching this. She said 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.880 the last thing she saw was his hands up trying 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.680 to protect his face, and a terrible scene for her 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:18.000 to see. Meanwhile, while that shooter, Shooter one, is shooting 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.160 Lewis Moran, the main target the second shooter, Shooter two, 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.440 and there's some debate about who's who and the zoo 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.880 and who those shooters were, which is one of the 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.880 points of today's episode. Shooter two shoots for old Bertie rout. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.680 Now Bertie Routes only sin is to be a drinking 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.520 companion of Lewis Moran. But anyway, while they're cleaning up 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.680 the Carlton crew, they thought they might get him too. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.640 The shooter said something like I've got you now, old man, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:51.560 and shot him with a I think a heavy caliber pistol, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.280 but it basically rendered his right hand inoperably. It was 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.600 almost shot off high in the arm, and that was 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.480 not so good for Bert. Bert claims, we can't be 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.720 sure of this unless someone's got the security footage. But 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.040 Bert said he took a bit of a kick at 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.760 this bug. He thought he might try and kick him 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.000 and kick the gun out of his hand or something 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.320 good thinking. But it apparently missed because the fellow shot 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.640 him again. And in fact, I think the shooter might 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.880 have emptied his pistol in the general direction of Bert route. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.960 Not every bullet hit him, but plenty did, and he 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.640 was very badly hurt and was enormously lucky to survive, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.320 and he did survive. He survived for another eleven years. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.880 He lived until the year two thousand and fifteen, which 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.800 was eleven years later, and died in his early seventies. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.160 So he lived to tell the tale, and the tail 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.879 he told was that his tough mate Lewis had turntail 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.040 and run and that he tried to kick his shooter 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.000 but didn't get there, which made him look a bit good, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.960 and it really became. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.880 The greatest story of Bert Route's. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.920 Fairly undistinguished life is how he survived the hit men, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.320 and his memories of that day were something he talked 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.119 about quite a lot to myself and several other reporters. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:22.320 So who done it well? Clearly Carl Williams, with a 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.720 bit of help, possibly financially from Tony Mockbell, had organized 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.359 this and paid for it. There's I think phone records, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:36.120 phone taps showing that Carl Williams said something to one 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.000 of these fellows. There's one hundred and fifty thousand reasons 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.840 to smile, referring to a payment of one hundred and 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:49.000 fifty thousand dollars for the hit. In fact, I think 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.720 a total of one hundred and forty thousand was delivered. Somehow, 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.440 for some reason, they clipped tenth off the price, made 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:57.960 little mistake their own way. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:58.840 As some of these fellows do. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:05.840 The shooters were not immediately picked up, but the police 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.520 would have a fair idea of who was in the 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.800 running to be doing such a thing. There's only a 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.320 handful of people around who would be up for it. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.679 I think one giveaway for them was that the security 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:25.800 footage of the Buntu Club might have shown that just 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.199 behind a glove on one guy's hand or something like that, 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:35.280 they saw a bit of a tattoo which identified or 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.119 tended to identify one of the shooters as a fellow 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:44.040 called Noel for A or Nol four. And Noel four 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.000 was one of a big family of habitual criminals and 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.359 career criminals, third generation criminal in fact, four, like the Marines, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:57.040 were crime royalty in Melbourne. Fathers and grandfathers. You know, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.960 they'd all known each other. I think some of the 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.680 known each other working on the docks and abatwars all 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.080 that sort of stuff. So on both sides of this 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.800 hit the shooters and the shot came from families that 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.200 would have known each other for fifty years or longer more. 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.280 And it just shows you how destructive these underworld wars 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:23.680 can get when drug money is introduced and sends everybody 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.600 crazy and creates these big vendettas. And soon the police 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.480 had a bit of a head start on this and 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.399 they were drawing conclusions about who might have been involved. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:39.240 Thirty nine days after this, that's just six weeks and 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.920 a bit after this, there's another shooting in Melbourne. And 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:48.320 this happens on the night of May the eighth, which is, 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.400 as I said, thirty nine days after the previous shooting 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:57.120 of Lewis Moran. And again I think the police had 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.960 a fair idea who might have been responsible, because within 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.480 days really they raided the SOG, the Special Operations Group there, 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:10.480 the swat team guys. They ambushed three men near a 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.040 shopping center and they arrested a man whose name we 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.080 cannot reveal here and probably cannot name. 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:19.320 Until he dies at least. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.879 But let's say, an old career crook. 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:23.920 That's who that guy is. 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:30.199 A career crook, been a crook all his life, vicious, evil, scheming, 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.000 very bad man. We will call him the old Crook, 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.280 or variations on that theme. The other two, well, one 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.560 of them was a young fellow called ange Goosis an 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.440 ange Gooss, it's a Greek name. Ange Gooss had been 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:50.080 a really promising boxer, middleweight boxer back in the eighties. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.399 He was supposed to go to the Seoul Olympics in 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.639 nineteen eighty eight, as I think a light middleweight to 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:03.239 box for Australia country. He didn't go. He sort of 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.040 started to hang around with the bad guys, he'd been 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:10.040 trained by a very fine boxer called Paul Ferrari, who 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.760 was well known around Melbourne because he was one of 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:17.240 the great heroes of the TV Ringside era. He was 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.120 a small, fast boxer that could box very very well 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.840 and he could teach other people how to box well. 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.879 And Paul Ferrari and ange Gooss's brother, who was a 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:34.199 really good guy, Ane's brother, they were very upset and 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:38.200 distraught at how ange Gooss, who was a pretty nice 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:43.280 young bloke of extremely good boxer, great reflexes, relaxed, knew 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:45.120 what he was doing and knew how to do it, 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.840 and also could take a punch. It didn't get upset 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:49.600 when somebody else hit him. So he had a lot 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:53.880 of the attributes of a champion fighter. But the other 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.600 bit of him that didn't suit was he was easily led. 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:01.680 He was too low to friends that he shouldn't have 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.439 had friends that were the wrong sort of friends, and 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.840 good boxes, particularly if they've got a little bit of 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.040 size about them, attract the wrong people and the wrong 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:17.520 people in these terms of some of the sort of 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.080 guys who go to the fights and they duchess the 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.560 boxes and they want to sort of keep them as pets, 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:29.280 and they use them as quote marks, drivers or bodyguards 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:33.119 that sort of stuff, because those gangsters like to have 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.840 someone around who can use their fists to drive them around. 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:39.840 It means it's a sort of a safer way to 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:42.840 be defended than having guns in the car or whatever 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.280 if you don't want to get arrested. And so Ange 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.080 Goose's had become one of these guys. He would hang 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:51.680 around with tough guys and bad guys and drug dealers 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:53.679 and all the rest of it. And he became a 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:58.240 bouncer in a dandy nightclub, which is code for dealing 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:00.639 with drugs and all the rest of it. And so 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.600 Ange had fallen into bad company and one of his 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.520 previous bosses had been shot dead. That was Nick Radev, 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:13.080 the Bulgarian drug dealer. And after that he fell in 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:17.000 with his old crook. And the old crook he's a 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.320 good con man. He was a bad guy, but he 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:22.919 knew how to engage with this younger boxer, and the 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:25.639 young boxer really took to him, really trusted him. And 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:29.199 the reward he got for that, listeners, was that the 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:33.120 older guy just used him up. And when they're arrested. 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.600 The older guy the bad old guy. 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:40.240 He manipulated Ange Gooss and he said, look, Goose, I 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:44.960 can't afford to take the rap for the shooting because 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.919 I've got so much form, etc. But you are virtual 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:54.000 clean skin, which Ange really wasn't. He did have some form, 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:57.040 but he said, you'll bet it on self defense. 0:24:57.800 --> 0:24:58.119 Now. 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:03.320 Funnily enough, just weeks earlier, Mick Gaddowood shot venemone and 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:07.240 he did subsequently bet it on self defense. And the 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:10.720 dirty old crook assured Ange Gooses that this would be okay, 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:13.720 that if he took the blame that they would he'd 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:17.879