Consider this. After years of work there are no inmates under 18 in jail in Scotland.
The justice system has been blinded by science before. In Victoria,suspects were previously wrongly convicted based on what appeared to be black-and-white results.
Some columns are unforgettable – from the immeasurable pain of a young widow to the memory of a predawn excursion,where a father shared the wonder of wetlands.
Detectives work on facts but every now and again,you need a bit of luck to get the break.
The Age crime columnist unpacks the major breakthrough in the notorious Easey Street cold case – and takes us behind the scenes of the long police operation that led to it.
Perry Kouroumblis,now 65,is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.
Police in Victoria will seek to extradite the man from Rome over a double murder mystery dating back to the 1970s.
Peter Hiscock said the arrest of a suspect at an airport in Rome was a great relief:“I thought I would go to my grave with the case unsolved.”
For six years this masthead has agreed to keep the breakthrough secret to avoid alerting the suspect.
“I stood up,completely spent,utterly out of breath but relieved that I had survived the scariest and most dangerous arrest of my career.”
Victoria’s former director of public prosecutions was a magnet for controversy as she tackled cases where many have opinions and few have the responsibility.