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Court of Criminal Appeal
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Matter number 122,
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Button against the Queen.
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- I have concluded
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that the verdict must be regarded
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as unsafe and unsatisfactory
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on the grounds ...
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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
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- This is your vindication.
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Well it is, yeah.
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But our job was nowhere near done.
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We had really only
just scratched the surface.
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The Button case has shone
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an uncomfortable searchlight
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on police practice,
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stretching back many years.
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- Police, they were prepared
to cut corners
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if they were convinced
in someone's guilt.
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John Button wasn't the only case.
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Reporter: 19-year-old Beamish
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said he was tricked
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into signing a confession.
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- Two young men were sacrificed
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so that the police
could keep their careers.
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- I think the Police Department
are only part of it.
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The judicial system,
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the community and the press
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all combined to ensure
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that neither of those guys
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ever had a prayer.
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- How many other people
are out there,
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wrongfully convicted,
who are innocent and in jail?
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This can't keep happening.
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- And the police files
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were full of crimes
that Cooke had confessed to.
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Young women, home alone, in bed,
were being attacked.
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By stabbing, by strangulation
and by shooting.
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- As well as hit runs.
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One minute
he was coming down the road.
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The next minute,
I'm flying through the air.
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The police kept it quiet
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because there was a pattern
to many of these crimes.
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That's when I realised
there was a big cover up.
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They were happy to let two men
rot in jail.
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- It's like a stone in a pond.
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The ripples don't go out.
Everyone suffers.
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- It's made me nervous.
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- Probably never,
ever felt safe at night again.
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- Why did he run me down?
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The rampage of death.
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All of a sudden you lose a mother.
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I see it as a private holocaust.
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It only belongs to me.
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(MUSIC PLAYS)
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So you run run run
from everything you are
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And you're lost with every scar
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And you say my name
like it's a game
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But you can't hide
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I see you there
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Behind the lies.
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You never know
the pain comes and goes
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In waves that cannot be erased
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It only fades away
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Long enough to remember
the price we paid.
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John, is it in that first ...
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- In here.
- Mmm.
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I've got a bad back.
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But I don't want you doing it
with the back surgery on yours.
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- That was Helen and I
going out together.
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- Seven --
- 1967.
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In '67, yes,
after I came out of prison.
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- When... I was up at the studio.
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- Yeah, yeah.
- And you asked me for a dance.
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I said, "I'm not dancing with you."
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(CHUCKLES)
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That was Rosemary.
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She's, ah, just turned 17.
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- There's lots of stuff in there.
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- Rosemary's still part of my life
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and it affected my life with my wife
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and it's been very hard for her
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to basically...
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..be stuck in a marriage
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where there's...
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..there's three of us.
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- Very sad times,
when you look at it, John.
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- Pretty tough.
- Yeah.
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It is very sad at times,
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to be honest with you.
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Very sad.
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You know, there's times
he'll talk of her
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and you don't know
whether it's really worth the effort.
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- That's the detectives
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with Eric Cooke.
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Eric Cooke took them out
to where he had hit Rosemary.
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- There has been times
that I've been thinking,
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"I'm going to leave him.
I'm just going to walk away."
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He builds her up.
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It's this absolutely perfect,
perfect girl,
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and I just think,
"Well, I haven't been perfect."
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Um...
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Yeah, and it's hard to swallow...
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..at times.
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So you just have to go on.
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Keep going forward.
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Hmm.
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But I think as I'm getting older,
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I'm finding it harder to go forward.
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Really do.
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- I can see the love and tender care
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my Dad holds for my Mum,
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but I think they lose sight
of each other in that,
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because there is
this big gaping wound.
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It is just... it's just me.
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- My Mum finds it really difficult,
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because she lives in the shadow
of Rosemary.
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Yeah, I'll have a bit of time out,
if you don't mind.
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- Thirty-nine years on, the teenager,
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now a grandfather,
was no longer a murderer.
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With that in mind, I started looking
at another man in prison
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for a crime Cooke confessed to.
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And I discovered corruption
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in the justice system was systemic.
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John Button wasn't the only case.
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- The murder of a woman
called Jillian Brewer,
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who was one of the heirs
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to the MacRobertson Miller
chocolate fortune.
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- She was a socialite,
an heiress from Melbourne.
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- He had watched Miss Brewer
through a window in her flat,
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entered through the back door,
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and hit her on the head
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with a hatchet as she lay sleeping.
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(WOMAN SCREAMING)
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(WOMAN SCREAMING)
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- Darryl Beamish had confessed
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to killing Jillian Brewer.
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Here we've got Beamish's confession.
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"Did you get blood on you?
No.
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"Why?
I put a blanket over head of lady.
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"What did you do with scissors?
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"I put scissors on the table
and I run away."
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The witness is Owen Leitch
and Jack Deering.
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Beamish, he was convicted
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after a confession he gave
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to Detective Sergeant Owen Leitch,
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and he was serving life in prison.
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But what the cops did
in fingering Beamish
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was probably their lowest move.
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- If you'd look
at the document for me.
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It's written,
"Yesterday you took us and said
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"you'd killed a lady at night."
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And then, "Is that right?"
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And then someone's written, "Yes."
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Did you write that?
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- The CIB actually
wrote a copy out first,
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then asked me to copy it
in my own writing.
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- So they asked you to copy out
the answers
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that they'd written
on another piece of paper.
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- Yes.
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Ah, Darryl's deaf.
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He's totally without hearing.
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I mean, absolutely, totally.
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He can't ...
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some deaf people can hear something
with assistance, but he can't.
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A 19-year-old
with the verbal understanding
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of a seven-year-old.
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Interviewer: Right.
With that in mind, there's no way
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he could possibly have understood
what was going on,
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when Leitch was attacking him?
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No.
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- But he was forced.
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Leitch had a hand
on the back of his neck
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and a hand forcing his hand
to write this out.
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So when they wrote,
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"Did you kill the lady"
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you wrote "Yes" but you were just
copying out what they'd written?
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- Yes.
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The CIB wrote it and like I said
they said to me, indicated "yes."
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Did you at any point
turn to the interpreter
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and ask her
to tell the police for you
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that you didn't do it
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and to clear up the confusion?
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- Yes, I did. I said to her,
"Look, I didn't murder.
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"I didn't murder anyone."
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And she just basically
kept her mouth zipped.
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- Beamish. The same issue
was raised as to whether
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the police were too enthusiastic
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to get a conviction,
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and they took someone
with disabilities
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and took advantage
of those disabilities.
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- The police were behaving in a way
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where they took justice
into their own hands
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and determined guilt
without proper process.
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- Did the police cut corners?
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No one said those things.
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No one talked about
Darryl Beamish's rights.
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He was simply a man
who police had said
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had committed this horrendous murder
and charged.
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Then he was found guilty.
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- The confessions,
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Darryl Beamish's confession,
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four pages of handwriting.
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Very, very light on detail.
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And yet this is what
he was condemned to death on.
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This is the confession
to murdering Jillian Brewer
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by Eric Edgar Cooke.
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Great detail.
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Fourteen pages
of tightly typed confession.
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And yet they accepted
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Beamish's confession over Cooke's.
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- The police,
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led most often at that time
by Owen Leitch,
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went about their business
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unquestioned,
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uncriticised
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and generally doing things
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that were accepted as being necessary
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and generally being praised,
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because that solved cases.
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- Leitch raced up
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the promotion ladder
for Commissioner,
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largely on the strength
of the Beamish case.
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Publicly, he was a hero.
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That's hard to believe, isn't it?
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It was an appalling thing to do.
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And it has ripples
right through the family.
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- You're never at peace.
Your mind's never at peace.
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At night time you lie in bed there
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and think and think.
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And I have to get up and walk about
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and then perhaps take some tablets
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to go to sleep.
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I can't lie any longer,
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it's on my mind so much.
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- We'll do what we can
to get him out of that jail,
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because he doesn't belong there.
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Reporter: Darryl Beamish has spent
more than four decades
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trying to clear his name.
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Reporter: Mr Beamish
spent 15 years in jail.
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This is his sixth attempt
at having the conviction quashed.
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Reporter: Allowed by
the state government
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because of new evidence.
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The evidence includes
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a confession by Eric Edgar Cooke
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that he murdered Jillian Brewer.
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Reporter: But in the wake
of the Button decision,
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his lawyers want swift justice.
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And we're hoping that the government
will see fit
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to grant him a free pardon.
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In the end, the evidence we gathered
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cleared the name
of not only John Button,
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but Darryl Beamish, as well.
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Reporter: Darryl Beamish emerged
from the Supreme Court,
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surrounded by family and friends
who've helped in his fight.
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It means everything.
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We've lived with it
for so many years.
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We exposed the truth.
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Cooke had committed
both of these crimes
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and the police
let the wrong men pay for them.
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The court should have made
an apology to him.
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Said, "We're sorry
for what's happened.
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"We're sorry
what happened to you.
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"We're sorry
what happened to your family
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"and we're sorry we got it so wrong.'
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I'm just hoping
today's other innocent people
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that are still in prison
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won't have to wait
as long as we have.
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- Everyone makes mistakes.
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What matters is how we respond
to our own.
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The police,
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who sent these innocent people
to prison,
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they have never apologised.
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Eric Edgar Cooke,
he'd finally told the truth.
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And Sally Cooke,
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she has taken responsibility.
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But the West Australian Police
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have never been accountable.
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But the Button and Beamish
exonerations did lead to some change.
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- Based upon my concerns
about integrity in policing,
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I promised a Royal Commission
into police corruption
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with historic cases where people
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still protested their innocence,
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and about which
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there was considerable controversy,
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of whether the convictions
were proper in the first place.
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In its first week,
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the Police Royal Commission
has heard evidence of corrupt police,
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stolen drugs, falsified documents,
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verballed witnesses or...
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- During the investigations,
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a number of these historic cases
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kept coming forward.
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Reporter: Ray Mickelberg
was locked up for eight years,
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his brother, Peter, for six.
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Their many appeals
costing taxpayers nearly as much
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as the value of the gold
they're accused of stealing.
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- The Mickelbergs,
who were three brothers,
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spent a significant number of years
in jail.
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Reporter: To the police,
they were the obvious suspects.
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- One of the arresting officers
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came forward with a confession
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that the evidence
against the Mickelbergs
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was fabricated.
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The next case was a major one.
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Mallard.
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Reporter: Andrew Mallard
received a payout
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after spending
10 years in prison,
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following an enquiry
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that showed trial police
were corrupt.
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- He was convicted of murdering
a jeweller.
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Police and the DPP
withheld evidence
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which would have exonerated Mallard.
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All of these cases point to a measure
of malpractice by the police
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and that Royal Commission
did establish
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the Corruption and Crime Commission,
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to deal with police corruption
generally.
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And hopefully these sort of things,
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well, certainly on this scale,
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would not happen again.
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- Beamish, these days,
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would have had
a second interpreter,
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one interpreting for him
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as well as for the police.
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There is videotaping
of police interviews now.
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But there isn't enough.
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The issue is,
wrongful convictions still go on.
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And as it stands,
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if you get fresh evidence, as I did,
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and you want a new appeal,
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you have to apply
to the Attorney General,
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a politician.
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Currently in Western Australia,
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there's possible legislation
to change this,
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so these applications
are going to go before a judge,
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not a politician.
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But this legislation is being
held up in the Upper House,
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and this is legislation
we need to go through.
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We West Australians,
we pride ourselves
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on being honourable,
stand-up citizens
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who do the right thing.
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And we expect that
of everyone around us,
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especially the people
we charge to protect us.
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That's what we're fighting
to protect.
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And so I want you
to make your voice heard,
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to lobby your Member
of the Upper House,
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to tell him this is important,
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because we are all responsible
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for how we shape
the tone of our communities,
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so we can avoid corruption
in the justice and the police system,
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and innocent men in prison,
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like Button, like Beamish.
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Thank you for coming.
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I'm so angry
the police got away with it.
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Estelle Blackburn,
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I'm so in admiration
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of the research that she did
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and how she understood
that there were patterns
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that weren't made public
at the time by the police.
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We should, in the Western Suburbs,
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take some responsibility
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because we'd put the pressure
on the police too much.
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If there's any injustice
going on now,
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we have to ask as many questions
as we possibly can.
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- The police, I don't think
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I would ever trust them ever,
ever again.
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Interviewer: Do you remember?
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There was an exoneration.
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Button and Beamish were both --
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Yes, you're -- you're right.
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- They were found to be not guilty,
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and it was Cooke after all.
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No.
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I can't bring my mind
back about that.
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- Do you believe Button and Beamish
were both innocent?
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- Well Darryl Beamish,
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I couldn't imagine him doing that.
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00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,040
But I never did believe
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Button was telling the truth.
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(HEAVY DOORS CLOSING)
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- You know, I think about
my responsibility
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as a parent to grow...
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Hi!
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..and care for my child.
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Hi!
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00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,480
Hi.
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I remain in a position
of personal challenge
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because I need to teach my son
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respect and trust in authority...
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Shall we go and have a look?
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00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:27,840
..when I don't hold that,
entirely, myself.
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You see this one?
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Let's go in there.
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I stand here,
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knowing that my Dad
was put in this space,
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because as a 19-year-old
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he had a confession
beaten out of him.
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How do I teach my child
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to trust in a system that I don't?
399
00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,440
- (VERBALISES)
- Yeah, yeah.
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00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,700
- He has nightmares still
401
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,340
about being in the prison,
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00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,020
about being in police custody
403
00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,840
and John's gone through
the deep, deep, deep depression.
404
00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,220
My Dad, over the years,
405
00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,420
had a few occasions
of trying to take his life,
406
00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,920
resulting in psychiatric admissions.
407
00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,720
- Helen left me on my own
for the weekend.
408
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,060
I took a few too many
sleeping tablets
409
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and went for a drive.
410
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,800
I finished up falling asleep
at the wheel of the car,
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00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,860
felt my whole body shaking,
and when I opened my eyes,
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I was flying over
a freshly ploughed paddock.
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00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,580
- I love my Dad so dearly,
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00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,880
but he lives a life
of chronic psychological pain.
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The impact of Cooke's crimes
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created tremendous
and extraordinary pain.
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00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,440
- The police did not do
their job properly.
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The irony is, if they had,
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Eric Edgar Cooke would've been caught
a lot earlier,
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00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:25,940
before the Australia Day shootings,
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before Rosemary died.
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Two men would not have been
wrongfully convicted.
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00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,580
After Jillian Brewer was murdered,
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police investigated
known offenders first.
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They went through the usual list
of sex offenders,
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00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,120
and Cooke had been picked up
many times as a peeping Tom.
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00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,200
So they went around
and interviewed Cooke.
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- And Cookie said,
429
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,400
"I didn't do anything wrong."
430
00:20:58,120 --> 00:20:59,780
The door crashed open,
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00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,140
and Mrs Cooke arrived.
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00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,140
And she took over.
433
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Interviewer: What did Eric Cooke say
434
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on that day following
the Jillian Brewer murder?
435
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,420
He'd been reading the paper in bed
436
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,340
and he called me in, and he said,
437
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:14,900
"Look at this."
438
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,780
And I said, "Oh, how dreadful.
Another murder."
439
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,740
And he said, "Yes." He said,
"Now you know the record I've got?"
440
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:21,980
And I said, "Yes."
441
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,580
He said, "Well if anybody
comes checking up,
442
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,260
"would you please tell them
that I was home early
443
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"and that we spent the night
with relatives?"
444
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,220
He said, "Because with my record,
they won't be fussy,
445
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,980
"they'll pin it on me."
446
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,940
- She said he was home
at 1:00 in the morning
447
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,500
and got out of bed and fed the baby.
448
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,300
- I told them then
449
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:43,860
what Eric had told me to say,
450
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because it went through my mind,
451
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:46,460
"Oh, they're doing
452
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:47,900
"exactly what Eric said they'd do.
453
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,500
"They've caught him for prowling,
454
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:50,900
"and they're going to pin this murder
455
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000
"on him."
456
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Interviewer: Eric asked you
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to give him an alibi.
458
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,020
Oh... alibi?
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- To say he was home
the night of the killings.
460
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,780
Yeah, but I -- he was a thief, see.
461
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,140
I thought he was a stealer.
462
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,700
God, I wouldn't have had him
in the house
463
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if I'd have known he was a killer.
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I would have been too scared,
you know?
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Well I think she knew
more than she said.
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Mmm.
467
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- She gave him an alibi,
468
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probably because she was worried
about her husband.
469
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,700
She had suffered a bit of violence
in the home.
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She was probably scared.
471
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,460
If it weren't for that alibi,
472
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which had sent them off
in a different direction,
473
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who knows what other murders
might have been prevented?
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Cooke, once his game was up,
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he was happy to talk, really,
476
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,760
and what I find really unforgiveable
477
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,740
is that there's no doubt in my mind
478
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that the police did believe
Cooke's confessions.
479
00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,300
But they didn't want that out.
480
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,620
They were happy
to let two men rot in jail.
481
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,500
And when the detectives took him
482
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on a tour of the Western Suburbs,
483
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,580
something happened
that confirmed this for me.
484
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,640
We got him in the car
and drove around.
485
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He had a bloody good memory.
486
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He'd say, "Oh yes,
I was in that house,
487
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,100
"breaking and entering, stealing."
488
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,340
I thought, "Well, I'll go up
489
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past Jillian Brewer's place
490
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"and see what he'll think
about that."
491
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,500
I said, "Hey, Cookie,
492
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,680
"what about Jillian Brewer?
What about that?"
493
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Interviewer: But Darryl Beamish
was in the prison for --
494
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:43,740
Yeah, yeah.
495
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,680
- Why did you think that
he might have done Jillian Brewer?
496
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,040
Well...
497
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..you, you get your idea
498
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about what certain crims do
499
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,060
and Darryl Beamish,
500
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he was a minor thief.
501
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(WOMAN SCREAMING)
502
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But not that.
503
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I'd go and ...
504
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I'd go you that.
505
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,440
Not right.
506
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,180
- In 1983, when I became Premier,
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I found Commissioners
508
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were generally hardworking, honest.
509
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:29,860
But one of the things
that police always tried to avoid
510
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is having convictions
511
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that they've provoked, upset.
512
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The worst by a country mile
was Owen Leitch.
513
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He intimidated his officers,
in my experience,
514
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,660
and he was a frightening person
to deal with.
515
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,700
There was no one more fervent
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in his efforts
to keep innocent people in jail.
517
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,420
He wouldn't have a bar of the view
518
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,520
that Beamish was innocent.
519
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,340
Reporter: Former Commissioner,
Owen Leitch,
520
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the arresting officer in the case,
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couldn't be contacted today,
522
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,140
has always maintained
523
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that Mr Beamish confessed
to the murder
524
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and has had his day in court.
525
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,660
- Incredibly, Darryl Beamish
526
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wasn't the only deaf man
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that Leitch framed
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00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,880
for one
of Cooke's crimes.
529
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,980
A friend of Darryl Beamish's,
Alan Ellis,
530
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,620
spent two years in prison
531
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,460
for supposedly assaulting
532
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,140
a woman in bed.
533
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,660
- There it is.
534
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,500
Mrs Peggy Belleville, 21,
535
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,500
made her attacker release her
536
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,060
when she punched him twice.
537
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,560
He fled through the rear door
of the house.
538
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:37,700
So I interviewed the victim.
539
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,060
She described her attacker
540
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,100
and it was clearly not Alan Ellis.
541
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,300
I mean, he was taller,
542
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,700
he had brown hair,
not black curly hair,
543
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,540
and it was clearly...
it was clearly Cooke.
544
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,460
Interviewer: How'd you feel
when you discovered that?
545
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,460
Well I must say, I felt ill,
you know.
546
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,640
I thought, "How many other people
are out there?"
547
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,700
- And the police files
were full of crimes
548
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,480
that Cooke had confessed to
in great detail.
549
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,480
But the police
had done nothing about them.
550
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,780
The police kept it quiet
551
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,960
because there was a pattern
to many of these crimes.
552
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,780
Young women, home alone, in bed,
were being attacked
553
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,500
and if this information got out,
554
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,060
it wouldn't take long
for people to start to see
555
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,340
the similarities with the attack
on Jillian Brewer,
556
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,220
and that would put
a big question mark
557
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,320
on Darryl Beamish's guilt.
558
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,620
This meant the other victims,
559
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,800
they didn't know
what had happened to them.
560
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,940
So I thought, "I'm going
to have to find these women."
561
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,040
So I hunted them down.
562
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,940
- We're in 101 Smyth Road, Nedlands.
563
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,380
And this is the flat that I lived in.
564
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,220
- This one here?
- Yeah.
565
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,100
- So whereabouts did he get in?
566
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,780
So down here,
567
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,780
and there's about six foot up,
there's a little tiny window. So...
568
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,940
- Right. But look how tiny it is!
569
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,740
- No, you wouldn't think
anybody could get through that.
570
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,840
- He must have been
quite a skinny bloke.
571
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,300
Here I have
Eric Edgar Cooke's confession
572
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,400
to his attack on Carmel Reed.
573
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,980
"I climbed through an open window
on the side of the premises.
574
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,900
"I walked into a bedroom
and disturbed a young woman in bed
575
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,280
"by flashing my torch into her face.'
576
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,640
- I'd been out that night
to a 21st birthday party.
577
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,020
I woke up and I thought,
578
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,620
"What the heck is going on?"
579
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,660
- Right.
580
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,180
This figure appeared
at the door with a torch.
581
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,300
"I picked up an umbrella and stabbed
or jabbed at the woman two times.
582
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,700
"I did not assault her
in any other manner."
583
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,200
I just kept kicking out
and started screaming more and more.
584
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,140
And he took off.
585
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,700
So of course I started
belting on that wall there and said,
586
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,800
"Get the police! Get the police!"
587
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,740
Yeah, well, not long after,
588
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,140
Lucy Madrill,
589
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,020
she had woken up
when he was stealing.
590
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,980
He then just strangled her...
591
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,300
- Ohh!
- ..with the cord of her bed lamp.
592
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,780
- Oh, my god.
- So did you have a lamp by the bed?
593
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:54,860
No, thank goodness.
594
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,300
- But also you jumped out...
- Yes.
595
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:57,740
..so you were fighting and running.
596
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,500
- But do you know...
- So I think that did save,
597
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,600
possibly save your life.
598
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,320
- Cooke, why did he do what he did?
599
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,700
- Eric Edgar Cooke
was very badly treated as a child.
600
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,880
A violent, alcoholic father.
601
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,060
Beaten physically and emotionally.
602
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,820
He had a cleft palate
and he had quite a mumble,
603
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,760
so he was just ridiculed
by the kids at school.
604
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,660
He'd been disempowered as a child.
605
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,220
He went to the Western Suburbs,
606
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,740
where the really affluent,
powerful people lived.
607
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,260
So suddenly, he found the power.
608
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:30,860
"I can get back at you.
609
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,960
"I've got the power over you."
610
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,100
This is the confession on Mollie,
611
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,900
and it's just one of many
house breaks and enters.
612
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,020
"When coming back in, the back door
slipped out of my hand.
613
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,500
"Girl woke up, about 16 or so,
614
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,740
"so I hit her with something handy."
615
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:48,780
- Interesting.
616
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,300
I woke up in the middle of the night
with concussion.
617
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,340
- Oh!
618
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,420
So I was staggering around the house
and vomiting...
619
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,700
- Oh!
- ..and totally out of control.
620
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,780
- Yes.
621
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,500
And I got into my Mum and Dad's room
622
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,580
and then I was taken off
to the doctor the next day,
623
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,500
and I was found to have
a hairline fracture...
624
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,660
- Oh, my hat.
- ..in my head.
625
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,860
When did you find out
that it was someone
626
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,340
who'd actually been in the house?
627
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,220
Well I didn't find out
until Estelle contacted my father.
628
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,700
- Golly! So 30 years,
and you just fell out of bed.
629
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:19,900
- Yeah.
— You believed. (LAUGHS)
630
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,620
That's right, that's right, yeah.
631
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,060
- How extraordinary.
632
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,380
- You were right in this crime wave.
633
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,780
I do remember
being in the flat one day,
634
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,660
and these two men appeared
on the front lawn here
635
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,180
with a small man between them...
636
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,660
- Really.
- ..in the middle of the day.
637
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,980
And I thought, "What are
those fellows doing out there?
638
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,100
"There's something going on."
639
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,620
And suddenly it occurred to me.
640
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,980
I thought, "My god, that's the bloke!
641
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,300
"That's the bloke!"
642
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,180
And I just stood there
and watched them.
643
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,540
Well, they walked around the flat
and off they went.
644
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,680
- That's an amazing story.
645
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,420
- Knowing the truth is very powerful.
646
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,380
It can't undo what's been done,
647
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,220
but it's good
for the person who's suffered
648
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,080
and I'm very proud
of what we achieved.
649
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,760
But I still had
some unfinished business.
650
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,620
In 1959, Pnina Berkman
651
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,720
was murdered in her bed.
652
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,940
The police had convinced themselves
653
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,780
that her boyfriend had done it
654
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,880
and fled home to Greece.
655
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,880
In fact, this was Eric Edgar Cooke's
very first murder.
656
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,040
He gave a detailed account
of how he had done it.
657
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,260
While the police
accepted his confession,
658
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,300
they didn't inform any of the family.
659
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,900
- Small photo.
660
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,060
- Which meant that Pnina's son, Mark,
661
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,220
who was eight at the time,
662
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,480
had no idea what had happened
to his mother.
663
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,800
I spent years trying to find him,
but I couldn't.
664
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,580
- "Patricia Vinico Berkman."
665
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,860
"Died 30th of January 1959,
aged 33."
666
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,280
"Deeply mourned by her son Mark."
667
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,820
I was sleeping with another family.
668
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,780
It was a school holiday,
669
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:31,860
and I don't know
670
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,960
what happened that night.
671
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,280
Oh, this is dear Mum.
672
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,180
I had a Polish father
673
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,020
and a lot of his family
674
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,120
perished in the Holocaust.
675
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,260
At the age of four they divorced,
676
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,460
so my mother just took me
677
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,560
and we went off to Perth.
678
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,040
Ah, here are old photos of Mum.
679
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,180
And then all these articles
680
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,280
which are not fun to read.
681
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000
"The Rampage of Death."
682
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,600
All of a sudden, you lose a mother.
683
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,080
One day you see her,
the next day you don't.
684
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:23,860
And you don't know the reason,
685
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,960
and it doesn't really matter.
686
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,560
I see it as a private holocaust.
687
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,660
I got a private one.
688
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,760
It only belongs to me.
689
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:37,820
There was a funeral.
690
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,460
I wasn't at the funeral.
691
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,340
My father, I suppose, was there,
692
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,440
and a few other people
693
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,580
and he took me to Melbourne
694
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,220
and life started in Melbourne.
695
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,100
But again, it didn't start,
696
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,680
because he put me into an orphanage
for another four years.
697
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:05,780
Luckily, he had
698
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,740
another two brothers in Israel
699
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,540
and they pushed him
700
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,920
to leave everything
and come over to Israel.
701
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,740
The same day I started
going to school,
702
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,180
I met my wife,
703
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,100
and we're together ever since.
704
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,200
(CHUCKLES)
705
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,620
In 2004,
706
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,920
we decided to go to Australia.
707
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,860
We met our third cousin, Diana.
708
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,740
She said, "You know what?
709
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,260
"There's a book
that they wrote about you.
710
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,640
'Broken Lives.'"
711
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,720
And I read about the whole story.
712
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,500
I nearly fainted,
713
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,780
because it was the first information
that I received,
714
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,300
reading the book.
715
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,400
Where it was.
716
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,980
Who did it.
717
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,400
I was angry at him, at what he did.
718
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,260
But I learnt what happened, happened.
719
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,360
I have to continue with my life.
720
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,120
I said, "OK,
now we have to meet Estelle."
721
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,580
One day, out of the blue,
I got this contact.
722
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,060
It was an e-mail.
723
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,940
"Good day, my name is Mark Berkman."
724
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,700
Whoo!
725
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,300
"Dear Estelle Blackburn,
726
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,100
"I would like to introduce myself.
727
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,820
"I am the son
of the late Pnina Berkman
728
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,300
"and, with your permission,
I would like to write to you.
729
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,780
"Thank you, Mark Berkman."
730
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:31,820
How formal.
731
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,360
And I'm screeching with delight.
(LAUGHS)
732
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,260
I just opened up the White Pages,
733
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,600
found the telephone, called her.
734
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,540
Not only did he know nothing
about his mother,
735
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,580
he had blanked out, he'd forgotten,
736
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,740
everything from the time
that he was eight
737
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,260
when she was murdered
738
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,300
to the time when he got to Israel
when he was twelve.
739
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,780
He knew nothing.
His life had disappeared.
740
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,860
- We started to build up
a friendship.
741
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,660
And then she said,
742
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,740
"I'm gonna do this,
we're going to do that.
743
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,000
"You come over in 2006 again."
744
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,280
I made a huge banner.
745
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,080
Hey! Marky!
746
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,520
Do-do-do-do-do!
747
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,380
Hey!
748
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,020
I was in tears, of course.
749
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,340
Oh, welcome, welcome.
750
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,880
Oh, you must be tired,
you poor thing.
751
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,540
Interviewer: Did she connect you
752
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,500
with your with your
former babysitter, with Daphne?
753
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,620
- Yes. Going into
the Millikan family's house,
754
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:36,220
and we see photos of me and mother
on a memorial wall.
755
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,500
He just couldn't get over
756
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,380
that we had all these photos of him.
757
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,780
Where did that all come from?
758
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,540
And they told me,
they explained to me,
759
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,700
I was there that night,
760
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,580
and they have a memorial.
761
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,960
I was so pleased that I had them.
Yeah. It was wonderful.
762
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:54,900
We went to the grave.
763
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
At the grave, there's feelings.
764
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,360
- It was just unbelievable.
765
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:03,240
(SINGS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
766
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,300
Everything came rushing back,
you know.
767
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,340
It was happy and sad
at the same time.
768
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,440
(SINGS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
769
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,880
And we had a whole ceremony,
like you should.
770
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,320
A Jewish ceremony.
771
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,060
We had a prayer.
772
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,620
For her sake, I vow this to charity,
773
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:36,180
now that her soul is remembered.
774
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,360
And that was really something.
775
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,880
That was emotional.
776
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,300
That was the best.
777
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,920
Now I think we have closed
the circle of life.
778
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,500
Where living and the non-living
are connected.
779
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,160
Thank you.
Another kiss for Michael.
780
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,820
And I want to say
781
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,460
I'm glad I was born.
782
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,560
I'm glad I had such a life.
783
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,260
And I'm getting to the goal,
784
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,980
and I'm getting closer
to my childhood.
785
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,420
I'm getting closer
to what I wanted to achieve
786
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,300
at the moment in my life
787
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:12,900
is to know everything.
788
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Everything, everything,
everything that happened.
789
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,220
And we're getting there.
790
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,720
Slowly, slowly,
things are getting there.
791
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,560
Bye. See you next time.
792
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,560
(CROWD CHATTER)
793
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,380
Minutes after reading the chapter
794
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,140
with all the information, I thought,
795
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,060
"I have to find Estelle."
796
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,500
- All these years on,
there are still people
797
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,980
who carry the scars
of the crimes of Eric Edgar Cooke.
798
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,100
So you've got lots of people
799
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,300
who understand,
800
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:48,860
who've gone through
the same experience.
801
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,140
So here's to all of you survivors.
802
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:53,900
Far more people than we understood
at the time
803
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,060
really affected by his attacks,
and the police.
804
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,940
No reference of the police
of ever charging him with it,
805
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,040
telling the family about it.
806
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,480
- Their families, their friends.
807
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,180
There are a lot of people,
still, in Perth
808
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,260
sleep with a light on at night.
809
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,780
I don't think I've ever felt the same
about windows at night.
810
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,740
I... it really turned me on
to safety at home.
811
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,840
Yeah. Very careful.
812
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,220
Those sorts of things always have
813
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,620
an emotional effect on people,
always.
814
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:26,100
It's made me, probably, nervous.
815
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,020
I'm a fairly nervous person.
816
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,340
I still have all the windows,
817
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,060
lots of windows in my house opened,
818
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,540
but they've all
got a good security screen on them.
819
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,580
- I wouldn't even go out the house
820
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,620
and collect the mail.
821
00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:39,700
I made my Mum put the big wardrobe
822
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,300
in front of the bedroom window.
823
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,820
I was so, I was still...
824
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,580
- Yeah.
- ..scared.
825
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,540
I still don't like being in a house
826
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,060
on my own at night.
827
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,300
It's... it's still...
828
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,460
I'm... I'm a scaredy bum.
829
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,620
- It changed the way that
830
00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,820
Perth people lived forever,
I would say.
831
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,220
I probably never,
832
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,740
ever felt safe at night again,
after that.
833
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,840
No.
834
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,020
Interviewer: How is life today?
835
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,980
I suppose over all the years,
836
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,360
I may finally accept
what has happened.
837
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,700
Just hope I've got the wisdom
to decide between
838
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,240
things that I can change
and things that I can't.
839
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,060
The spot just down here
where I picked Rosemary up from.
840
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,160
- Quite sobering.
- It is.
841
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,580
What's playing in my mind
at the moment
842
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:50,180
is imagining you at 19 years of age,
843
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,900
standing here, frightened,
844
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,220
scared, overwhelmed,
845
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,640
panicked, grief-stricken.
846
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,920
- Well, it was all of that, yes.
847
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,820
Everything all mixed up,
and not knowing what to do or...
848
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,940
And you've had to live through it,
haven't you?
849
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,900
- Well, it's defined me...
- Mmm.
850
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,100
..as it's defined you.
851
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,160
It has. It's played a major part
in our whole life.
852
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,180
- And the thing
that saddens me the most
853
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,660
is I'm not convinced
854
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,040
that you've totally
found your freedom.
855
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:25,820
- No, no. I'm still tied to the past.
856
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,420
And I don't think you will ever
857
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,420
find your freedom.
858
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,980
- Mmm.
- I think part of your freedom
859
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,700
was taken on that fateful night,
860
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:35,740
at this site.
861
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,220
- It was, yes.
862
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,140
Yeah.
863
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:41,240
And yet the irony is
864
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,900
had this not occurred,
865
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,100
I wouldn't exist.
866
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,580
- That's, that's right, yes,
867
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,140
because of the way the cards fell.
868
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:51,740
- But I really wish for you
869
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,620
that you hadn't had to encounter
870
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,940
the pain and suffering that you have
all these years.
871
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,460
Mmm. Yeah, there's been
a great tragedy.
872
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,140
But it's changed us all, hasn't it?
873
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,240
- Mmm. Mmm.
- What happened.
874
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,060
I had always believed
875
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,820
the police told the truth.
876
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,860
The idea that the police
are there to protect you,
877
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,180
and nothing can ever go wrong
878
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,420
providing you do the right thing.
879
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,520
That just isn't right.
880
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,140
And the only person
that told the truth
881
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,240
was Eric Edgar Cooke.
882
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,860
Basically said,
"I've done something wrong.
883
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,680
"By my confession,
let me try and put it right."
884
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,060
Nobody else has come forward
and said,
885
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,640
"I'm sorry.
Let me try and put it right."
886
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:56,240
- I shall make a cup of tea.
887
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:02,820
Right.
888
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,220
Interviewer: What was
the most important thing for you...
889
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,320
..at the time?
What did you want?
890
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,500
I only ever wanted to get married
891
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,140
and have a big pile of kids,
892
00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:15,580
I used to say.
893
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,680
And I got what I wanted.
894
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,820
I worked in the markets,
895
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,100
as a waitress in the cafeteria.
896
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,520
Loved every minute,
but that's where I met my husband.
897
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,620
Eric was lovely.
898
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,000
I thought he was
a very clever person.
899
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:35,420
One of the school teachers
that had him at school,
900
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,000
she said he could have been a genius.
901
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:41,520
He was so clever.
902
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,100
But he was made to leave school at 13
903
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,740
and go out to work
904
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,100
because of his Dad.
905
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,300
And his Dad was a drunk.
906
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,060
I felt sorry in a way.
907
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,160
- Was he difficult?
908
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,780
- Well he wasn't a good husband,
909
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,700
put it that way.
910
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,980
A womaniser.
911
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,540
Always with other women.
912
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,620
The women that knocked on my door
after he'd gone and asked,
913
00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,720
"Are you Eric Cooke's sister?"
914
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:12,040
And I said, "No, I'm his wife
and these are his seven children."
915
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,420
And one girl cried.
916
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,460
She said, "He told me
he wasn't married,
917
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,060
"he was looking after his sister
whose husband had died,
918
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,420
"and she had a lot of children,"
919
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,960
so it was his responsibility
to look after me.
920
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,140
That was the story he gave.
921
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:27,580
(LAUGHS)
922
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:29,680
You gotta laugh. I laugh now, too.
923
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:33,940
After he died,
924
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,220
I got a choice off me sister.
925
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,900
I either move away,
926
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,620
go to another state
and change me name,
927
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:42,020
and they'd keep in touch.
928
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,580
She'd keep in touch with me.
929
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,580
And I said, "Well, looks like
I'm losing a sister,
930
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,680
"'cause I ain't going nowhere."
931
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,540
You've got to stay and face things,
932
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,380
and all my kids I've taught that,
933
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,480
and they all live up to it.
934
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,120
I'm very proud of my family.
935
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,760
My family could've been
a lot different to what they were.
936
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,840
Not one of them took after him.
937
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:11,500
Tony Cooke.
938
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:12,540
- Yeah.
939
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:13,700
- The eldest boy became
940
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,800
a social worker, in the prisons.
941
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,060
And he was scared he wouldn't
be accepted in the prisons
942
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,460
because of his father.
943
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,340
- Yeah.
- But he was accepted.
944
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,440
And everybody loved him.
945
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,380
- What was the impact on you
and your family at the time?
946
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,420
I'd have to say it has made
a huge impact on me as a person.
947
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,180
It guides me in what I do.
948
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,140
It's formed my values
and my attitudes.
949
00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:37,460
It's given me the conviction
that what I should be doing
950
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,820
is working towards
a more positive society,
951
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,120
the sort of society that doesn't
breed people like my father,
952
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,820
in the most positive sense,
953
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,380
and that's why I do, in many ways,
954
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:48,940
what I do in my private life
955
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,380
and in my public life.
956
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,420
Unions will not stand
for that type of action
957
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,300
in our community.
958
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,220
- Tony became
a very well-respected politician,
959
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,420
in the face of what seemed to be
960
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,520
almost overwhelming adversity.
961
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,660
- Their son was extremely successful
962
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,860
and a very good person.
963
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,200
He was all for the people, Tony.
964
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,460
- We're here to defend
the average battler.
965
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,420
1.5 million people haven't achieved
966
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,540
real increases in wages.
967
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:19,780
Who are going to be the victims
968
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,980
of this sort of legislation?
969
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,140
- There was a walk through town
for the unions.
970
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:27,280
He was head of the unions
at the time.
971
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,720
The government, they said
he wouldn't get three people.
972
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,040
And I was right behind him.
973
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,420
- To my mind, that says
974
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,520
one hell of a lot for Sally Cooke.
975
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,680
I think she deserves medals, frankly.
976
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,220
She did an amazing job
977
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,020
to bring up that family
978
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:02,780
under the circumstances
979
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,620
that she found herself in,
980
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,900
before and after.
981
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,180
She's done a good job, obviously.
982
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:11,300
And I...
983
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,400
you can't take that away from her.
984
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,080
I said, "No matter what happens,
don't run away from it.
985
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,020
(CLEARS THROAT)
986
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,120
"Stay and face it."
987
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,680
I'm runnin' for your love
988
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,640
I want it to be right there
989
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:14,240
But it won't change a thing, I know
990
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,560
It's never enough to say your name
991
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:25,240
And I think of all the years
we lost
992
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,120
I'm runnin' for your love
993
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,620
I want it to be right there
994
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:36,200
But it won't change a thing, I know
995
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:42,080
It's never enough to say your name
996
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,560
When I think of all the years
we lost
997
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,440
I'm runnin' for your love
998
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,880
I want it to be right there
999
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:59,040
But it won't change a thing,
I know...
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