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The Rockpool brawl, the Mafia ties and the gangster links
It was a Saturday night in August at one of Sydney's most exclusive restaurants when two men from rival crime families came head-to-head.
Ava Benny-Morrison is crime reporter with the Sydney Morning Herald
It was a Saturday night in August at one of Sydney's most exclusive restaurants when two men from rival crime families came head-to-head.
A gun has been uncovered during a raid on a house linked to a crime figure gunned down in Sydney's south-west.
Underworld figure Pasquale Barbaro spent his last day alive coming and going from the Earlwood home of construction industry figure George Alex.
A Sydney underworld figure with strong Mafia ties has been shot dead hours before phone intercepts in which he featured were about to be played at a trial for the murder of a rival.
A former kingpin in the street gang Brothers For Life and three other senior figures have been found guilty over a string of bloody shootings that transpired during the group's violent unravelling.
In the early hours of the morning and under the umbrella of an immunity, Michael Atkins returned to the Royal National Park.
A man acquitted seven years ago for the murder of his then boyfriend has led police to his possible grave site in rugged bushland south of Sydney.
In the days before he was gunned down in the driveway of his home in the city's south-west, Sydney crime figure Hamad Assaad knew he was a marked man.
A toxic fall out between crime figure Hamad Assaad and the son of one of Sydney's most notorious bikies may have contributed to the city's latest gangland execution.
Following Megan Jean Haines' conviction this week, the problems that have shadowed her nursing career can finally be revealed.
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