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Amazing Australian Crimes
Melbourne school boy steals two trams !
Crime tours in MelbourneInterested in crimes? In Melboure you can book on a tour that takes you around the city and tells you all about the illegal things that have gone on there. More info.... Bankers gone badOver the last few months of 2003 four foreign-currency dealers at National Australia Bank managed to hide between $180 and $600 million in losses caused by their own private rogue trading by faking multi-million-dollar profits until discovered in early 2004. Just before that WA bank manager Kim Faithfull, 36, stole nearly $19 million from the Commonwealth Bank Karatha branch that he managed and gambled it away. He pleaded with the bank to show some compassion and not sell his house, which would leave his partner and five-year-old son without a home. Yeah right, we all know banks are really compassionate don't we? Over a period of five years he managed to win and lose half to one million dollars a week but never managed to get all the money back that he had "borrowed" from the bank. At the time these sounded like big deals, until Leeson in Singapore managed to totally eliminate and bankrupt the bank he worked for, and then a Frenchman broke that record again with a whopping seven billion or so share trading fraud in 2008. Barefoot bankrobberSimplicity can be the key to success! In 1989 a 'bushie' looking character walked into the Bank of South Australia in Knuckey St. Darwin, barefoot and dressed in an old pair of shorts and singlet and a big beard and sunglasses and demanded money. The teller gave him a handsome sum and he walked out the door and around the corner( he had no getaway car). Later it was found he had changed his clothes in a public toilet just down the street before he disappeared and the case has never been solved! Being drunkVictoria is the only state in Australia where being drunk in a public place is a criminal offence and is punishable by a $100 fine. But in March 2006 a parliamentary inquiry recommended that this law should be changed to decriminalise public drunkenness. Bible basherThe assistant pastor and two bible study teachers of the Open Door Korean Church at Chatswood, Sydney, had noticed that 19-year-old Angela Kim did not attend church services as regular as they would like to see. So they arranged a meeting with her in a park in north Sydney, where they kicked an punched her severely. The leader of this stupidity got 12 months jail and the helpers 6 months. Bridge throwerArthur Freeman is no longer a free man, since police arrested him for killing his own four-year-old daughter Darcey by throwing her off Melbourne's West Gate Bridge in January 2009. Can not eat moneyAn old Indian American Cree philosphy says; But 34 year old Robert Hulme tried it anyway in December 2004. After he had stolen $800.- from a woman in Sydney his getaway car got stuck at a traffic light and witnesses to the robbery held the doors of the car closed while they waited for police. When police arrived they found him in a not too healthy looking state and then, much to their surprise, started throwing up $50.- bills until he reached a total of $600.- He had come up with the idea to hide the evidence and eat the money! Another couple of notes were found between his buttocks and then he was taken to hospital and kept in custody. Child sex chargesIn June 2007 a 44 year old truckie from Cairns appeared
in court charged with no less than 103 child sex offences.
Dumb and dumber
Get it Indiya!! A Sydney couple was a bit hungry, so they got on the phone
to the local Indian restaurant and ordered some curry. Family massacre24 Year old Sydney student Sef Gonzales was on his way to
failing his pre-law course and did not want his family to find out so
he came up with a plan; kill the family and that way they will never know,
and that way he'd get the family money too. He bought some poisonous seeds
that he fed to his mother but she survived so in July 2001 he stabbed
both his parents to death and stabbed, strangled and bashed with a baseball
bat, his 18 year old sister. To divert attention from himself he painted
"F#&! off Asians" on the kitchen wall, faked his own abduction
and wrote emails pretending to originate from a Filipino businessman's
hitman. Father killerIn April 2008 a 17 year old boy in Mudgee NSW shot his sleeping father dead in his bed with a stolen double barrel shotgun. He and his brother checked up on their d(e)ad and then, instead of calling police, returned to their bedrooms, where they continued to watch TV for the rest of the night. F%#* the landlady!If your landlady evicts you from your flat you might think or say "F%#* the landlady!" but most people would leave it at that. Not bricklayer Antony Welsh, he took this literally and in May 2004, a month after being evicted, went to his (ex)landlady's house together with his mate Lachlan, and equipped with knife, video camera, hood and rope. When the landlady came home she was bound, gagged and hooded and for the next two hours Antony F%#*ed the landlady while his mate videotaped it all. Now Anthony does not need to worry about being evicted again for the next 20 years, as this is the jail sentence both he and his mate received. Order the tape here Head stolenIn 1978 thieves stole the head of Ned Kelly that was on display at the Old Melbourne Gaol and it was never seen again until a bloke from the Kimberleys declared himself the custodian of the skull. HIH collapseHIH became Australia's biggest ever corporate collapse when
it failed in March 2001 with liabilities of $5.3 billion. Many people
lost their life savings, and with most doctors and others in the medical
business being insured here the collapse also lead to a health care crisis,
as suddenly they found themselves working without insurance cover. The
government had to step in with temporary arrangements to avoid a country
with no doctors but many in the medical profession found the new insurance
schemes to expensive and stopped working or went into early retirement.
Hitch-hiker from hellJohn and Alois McDonald picked up hitch hiker Ashley Appoo in Queensland in November 2001 and invited him over for lunch at their house. They must have got on well as he ended up staying at their house but two days later during a conversation about religion Alois told him that she and John were atheist and the devout christian Ashley snapped. He started punching Alois and when her husband came to the rescue Ashley killed him with an axe. Alois survived but with multiple injuries and an axewound to her leg. Ashley is spending 18 years in jail. Holiday from hellIn June 2003 18 year old Kiwi backpacker Aryan Hendrickson had the holiday from hell when within a day of arrival in Australia he was held hostage, stripped, burnt and bashed with a cricket bat for a whole night by homeless men who wanted his bank PIN. With a pillow case over his head and a wooden contraption with a rope around his neck he had his legs, toes, stomach and backside burnt, his testicles pulled, was whipped with cord, and bashed with a cricket bat around the head and body. He was fortunate that one of his tormentors thought it all too much at one stage and called the police who raided the place early in the morning. Icecream warOn February 5, 2002, Melbourne icecream vendor Francesco Mangione, 46, of Moonee Ponds hacked to death competitor icecream vendor Denis Giunta with a home-made sword and stabbed him 55 times because they had disagreements on who could sell icecream on what streets. Denis' missus jumped out of a window to escape and broke her leg. Victorian Supreme Court judge Justice David Harper jailed him for 22 years with a minimum non-parole term of 18 years. Jealousy murderSydney bloke Gabor Ziha was not all that pleased with his ex-missus Marija rooting her new bloke Barry Corbett, so he went up to their house in Parramatta where he found them in bed and he stabbed and killed Barry and then also chopped his penis off and hid it in one of the bedside drawers. The judge thought this was all a bit over the top and sentenced him to 24 years in prison. Lesbian killersAussie girls Jessica and Valerie also went to jail for 24 years in 2008, they had killed their 16 year old friend Stacey by bashing her head with a concrete block and strangling her with a chain, after which they videoed the bloodied bedroom and kissed eachother over Stacey's half naked body, and then dumped her in a wheelie bin. Melbourne's sexy train announcementsAnnouncements on the train are usually hard to understand
and pretty boring and predictable, but in January 2006 Melbourne's sexy
train announcer struck again, entertaining amused train passengers. Mothers Day from hellA 62 year old woman from Brisbane had the Mothers Day from hell when her 24 year old son stabbed and killed her with a pitch fork in her sleep on Mothers Day 2004. Musician's fingers hacked off21 Year old saxophonist Phil Evans arrived at his Brisbane home in July 2003 and found a couple of men who tied him up, taped his mouth up, and then started hacking his fingers off with an axe. After he had screamed when the first finger was cut off the attackers told him that his flatmates were doused in petrol in the room next door and would be set on fire if he screamed again. The attackers cut off a total of three fingers during the ordeal. Nagging mumDoes your mum nag and drive you nuts? Let her read this
article and she might shut up... Nigerian scamWe all get the regular email from Nigeria with the great
news that millions of dollars can be ours as long as we provide a bankaccount
to funnel unclaimed fortunes from Nigeria to a western country but in
October 2003 police arrested a 39-year-old Sydney man in relation this
scam commonly known as "Nigerian fraud". Norfolk Island mystery murderNorfolk Island is an Australian administered Territory,
about 1600km northeast of Sydney, which is a quiet and peaceful place
with a small population. Penguin prankIn April 2012 Rhys Jones and Keri Mules from Wales broke
in to Gold Coast Sea World and stole a fairy penguin named Dirk , after
emptying a fire extinguisher in to the shark tank and a swim with the
dolphins. Peter FalconioPeter Falconio, 28, and his girlfriend Joanne Lees were
driving their Kombi van north on a very remote stretch of the Stuart Highway,
near Barrow Creek, on the night of July 14, 2001. Phone fury
In June 2005 Aussie actor Russell Crowe was staying in
SoHo's Mercer Hotel in New York while he was promoting his new movie Cinderella
Man. Vogue Magazine has described this place as the hottest hotel in New
York, and this night temperatures certainly ran high. Russell wanted to
call the missus back in Oz to let her know everything was OK in the Big
Apple. With the phone in his room he was not able to ring Australia, a
bit pathetic as one would expect a phone in a $4,000-a-night room to be
working very smoothly. Aussies going on holidays to the US should be aware that Yanks are a bit sensitive, early 2006 Aussie woman Pauline Clayton was in a cinema in Texas watching Brokeback Mountain when a local woman started talking on a mobile phone. Everybody knows that talking into your mobile in a cinema is a big no-no but this woman did not want to listen to Pauline's requests for silence, and then when Pauline tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention all hell broke lose with the Yank yelling at the Aussie, storming out of the cinema and calling the cops, who promptly arrived to march Pauline off to the nearest cop shop where she was fined $176.- for invading private space and assault! And in August 2007 another Aussie sheila managed to get
herself in trouble in the States. And we just heard that Aussie uni student Andrew Thistleton is in court in the US for throwing a snowball at someone at a ski resort in Colorado, he has pleaded not guilty to serious charges of third degree assault, which could land him in jail for 18 months. Pissed off about a parking ticketWe all get pissed off from time to time when we get a parking ticket, but most people just grumble about it, pay and forget. Some enterprising individuals in Darwin took it a step further by breaking into Darwin City Council headquarters where they lined up five motorcycle helmets used by parking officers and urinated in them. Nothing else was stolen or damaged in the break-in. The parking officers are now keeping their helmets in another safe place at night. (This gives a whole new meaning to the term 'pisshead'.) Poisoned cat43 year old Tasmanian psychologist Stephen Alexander Harper was very fond of his cat Tootie, so when it died in August 2006 and his mother laughed about it he presumed she had poisoned the cat and he exploded with rage and killed both his parents with an axe. Port Arthur Massacre
On April 28 1996, 28 year old Hobart resident Martin Bryant managed to kill no less than 35 people including children in the tourist town of Port Arthur, Tasmania. Well equipped with several semi-automatic rifles he started the killingspree in the Broad Arrow Cafe and ended up in Sea Scape Cottage with several hostages. Police reinforcements were flown in from far and wide, negotiations continued through the night and then the next morning at 08.25 am smoke started billowing from the house and Martin ran out with his clothing on fire and was arrested. Several more bodies were found in the remains of the guest house bringing the toll of this 19 hour ordeal up to 35 men, women and children dead and another 18 wounded. People that knew him described him as a loner and a quiet lad. Also he was, due to an inheritance, a millionaire, but instead of living it up in a tropical holiday destination like he could have afforded he now spends his time behind bars serving his sentence of 35 life imprisonments, (one for each person killed) and twenty 21 year imprisonments, one for every other person injured. Although he lives in a specially constructed cell, ife behind bars has not been real enjoyable for him, he's not real popular with the other prisoners and has been bashed up several times and has attempted suicide at least four times. Psychological reports give him the mental age of an 11 year old and an IQ of 66, he has also gained 30kg. during his time in captivity.
Possessed by public transport
Some boys dream about becoming train drivers when they grow
up but one Melbourne boy could not wait that long. At the age of 15 he
had already stolen two trams, a schoolbus and attempted to take off in
a train. Rabbit massacreIn October 2005 36 year old Kiwi businessman Brendan McMahon appeared in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on charges of bestiality and cruelty involving rabbits and was ordered to stay away from pet shops and farms. In and around his office police had found at least 50 dead and mutiliated rabbits, which had also sexually been interfered with. Restaurant robberyIn June 2004 a gang held up an entire restaurant in Sydney,
demanding customer's cash. This turned out to be not overly succesful
as Aussies rely on their credit cards for most purchases these days so
the robbers made off with a lousy $600.- Russian bride shoe murder66 Year old John Kiseljev from Sydney thought he was a pretty
lucky man when he married his 22 year old Russian bride Nadejda Zassoukhina
in September 2002. Tank against towers45 year old John Patterson used to work for Telstra, but
ran in to strife with them when he reckoned the radiation from mobile
phone towers was damaging his head. He put in a medical compensation claim
but of course Telstra was not forthcoming with money, and John got to
the point where he was that frustrated with the situation that he stole
an ex-British Army tank from a garage where it was being restored. The angels made me do it
The reputation of the appetite of crocodiles received a bit of a dent when early March 2004 the bodies of two Thai prostitutes were found in the Adelaide River near Darwin. They had been thrown off a bridge weighed down with car batteries and had drowned and their intact bodies were found by a boatload of croc-spotting tourists 30 hours later. Although first it was reported in the media that this was the start of an underworld war in Darwin to gain control of prostitution it turned out to be two eighteen year old lads who had fled to Queensland and were arrested fairly soon. Many people have come up with the excuse "the devil made me do it' over the years, this time the excuse was "the angels made me do it". The boys claimed they owed the Hells Angels 50 grand and had done this job to pay their debt, though they later admitted to making this up. The Backpacker MurdersIn the early 1990s the tradition of hitch-hiking around
Australia came to an end when through out 1992 and 1993 police kept finding
bodies of European tourists in the Belanglo State Forest near Berrima,
New South Wales. A total of seven bodies was dug up and after lengthy
investigations Ivan Milat was arrested in 1994 and charged with their
murders in 1996 and was locked away for probably the remainder of his
life. After this the tradition of hitch-hiking has never recovered again.
He had been hitchhiking on the outskirts of Sydney, only weeks after arriving in Australia, when he was offered a lift by Ivan Milat ( who called himself Bill), and soon after the pickup the driver pulled out a gun and told Paul this was a robbery. Ivan then tried to tie up Paul, but he managed to get out of the car and ran away while Ivan fired a shot at him that missed. In November 2010 police found the dead body of an 18 year old man in a shallow grave in the infamous Belanglo State Forest, he had been killed on his birthday. Three teenagers were arrested in connection with the murder and would you believe it, one of them was a relative of Ivan Milat! The Cheeky BanditIn December 2003 a thief left a rather unusual clue after breaking into a Darwin office. The cheeky thief left several images of his/her bottom, created by the office photocopier! Detectives are yet to identify the thief's gender but forensic testing is being carried out and results will be known soon. The CollectorPest controller Hendrikus "Hank" van Leeuwen managed to carry home more than 2,000 items from the Australian Museum in Sydney in a five-year spree from 1997 to 2002, they included skulls, skeletons, skins and even a large stuffed lion. The Lost BanditA bandit who robbed a rural service station missed his getaway car. The man, armed with a rifle and wearing a balaclava, entered the Mobil service station on the Gore Highway at Southbrook, southwest of Toowoomba, about 9.45pm on Thursday. The truck stop was packed with staff and a room full of truckies having their dinner. He told everyone to get down on the floor and demanded money from a woman behind the counter, then fired a warning shot into a fridge and fled into a back paddock. Instead of speeding away in his getaway car, he became lost in the heavy rain and turned up at a property 10km down the road at first daylight the next morning -- eight hours after the robbery and hitched a lift from a local property owner. The Mower MurderDarwin's heat has been known to drive people "troppo"
and that's what might have happened to Alan Forscutt; the noise of his
neighbour William Caldwell's lawnmower annoyed him that much that he stormed
out into the yard and shot him point blank in the suburb of Nakara in
1986. His excuse later was that it made him "feel good". He
is still in jail twenty years later and the way it looks he might stay
there for the rest of his life, though in February 2004 Forscutt was allowed
out of prison last for two hours, escorted by a guard and two mental health
nurses. The Darwin newspaper reported this and the court issued a suppression
order making it illegal for the media to report when this killer, who
was officially declared insane, would walk through the city again. The Postcard BanditBrendan Abbott traveled around Australia for years robbing
banks in the days when police in different states could not yet see the
point of working together so all he had to do was move from state to state
to elude capture and felt that confident he even used to tease the authorities
by sending them postcards. The Speargun KillerSpearguns are normally used for fishing but in March 2004 John Myles Sharpe from Victoria used one to kill his wife Anna with two shots to the head, after which he dismembered the body with a chainsaw. Four days later he used the same speargun to kill his 2 year old daughter Gracie and then dumped both bodies in bins at the Mornington waste transfer station. This earned him a minimum of 33 years in jail. The Tomato KillersIn June 2010 millions of tomatoes and salad crops around
Bowen were poisoned by saboteurs, 30 out of 48 growers were affected in
this area. The Tomato Terrorist34 Year old Anthony Donohue appeared in the Gold Coast's
Southport Magistrates' Court in November 2005 charged with two counts
of threatening to endanger the safety of an aircraft. The Umbrella MurderNot only in James Bond movies are people killed with umbrellas, 18 year old Chris Williams got into an argument with another teenager at a tram stop in Melbourne in October 2003 and was fatally stabbed with an umbrella and died several days later. Two dollars at a timeCanberra man William Grzeskowiak worked at the Mint where the Australian money is produced. Everyday he used to put a couple of two dollar coins in his shoes and lunchbox and when police finally raided his house and some other properties they found over $100,000 in two dollar coins! He was arrested in Bendigo, Victoria in February 2005 after a local business owner became suspicious when he tried to exchange large amounts of two dollar coins and called police. SantaOn October 23, 2003, Kevin Hyder, 61, a Melbourne pensioner of suburban Coburg, robbed a paint store wearing a Santa hat fashioned into a balaclava by slashing two eye holes near the hat's peak. Armed with a claw hammer he confronted the 67-year-old owner of Leos Decorators at McKinnon and escaped with $852 in cash but through the exertion of his quick getaway suffered an angina attack and was forced to knock on the doors of several nearby homes requesting they drive him to a doctor or the nearest railway station. He was taken by ambulance to Monash Medical Centre where police arrested him. Santa 2In December 2003 Tasmaniac Gregory John Hartland-White also dressed up as Santa Claus and armed himself with a fake gun and robbed a Tasmanian branch of Westpac of $13,451 . He purchased a Santa suit from a nearby store, found two pieces of pipe, which he bound together to make the ends look like a double-barrelled shotgun and only one hour and 20 minutes after coming up with the idea he held up the bank dressed as Santa Claus. After the hold up he changed his clothes in a horse-float for hire at a nearby service station in full view of witnesses before pedalling away on a bicycle and was still wearing red Santa pants under his trousers when later apprehended by police. He was sentenced to four years. Sex educationAll responsible parents know they have to give their children
sex education but one 54 year old fundamentalist church pastor from South
Australia took this a bit too serious. For nearly ten years he used to
have sex with his 13 and 15 year old daughters, for the purpose of educating
them how to be good wives. Spam sendersDo you hate all that spam that you get in your email everyday? You will be pleased to hear that at least one of those spammers got caught. The Perth based company Clarity1 Pty Ltd went to court in 2006 for sending no less than 280 million spam emails of which about 74 million were successfully delivered between April 2004 and April 2006 and they were fined $5.5 million. It was the first time an Australian company has been fined for sending spam and hopefully others will be caught too. Why did the woman cross the road?This sounds like a joke but the reason 83 old pensioner
Pat Gallen crossed the road was to buy some groceries in her home town,
the sleepy little village of Malanda in the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns.
Unfortunately this got her in trouble with the law in an incident that
made national headlines.
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