VINCENZO Mannella was nearly everyone’s friend — he was outgoing, generous and funny — but some time during his life of wheeling and dealing, he managed to make at least one serious enemy. And Mannella moved on the fringes of a world in which it doesn’t pay to rub the wrong people the wrong way...
DETECTIVE Inspector Graham ‘Chook’ Fowler was filling his car with petrol at a service station when the Royal Commission investigators swooped. But Chook was used to having anti-corruption officers breathing down his neck and kept his hand calmly on the nozzle. For once, his confidence was misp...
Then a policeman wouldn’t have slipped away to buy his wife some sheets and then he wouldn’t have been a little bit late for a briefing on a drug sting to be carried out by a visiting New South Wales undercover detective. Perhaps then he would have heard the exact instructions on when to move in ...