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The Bourke Street Attack

Season 1, Ep. 22
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20th of January 2017 Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria.


At around 8am, a channel 9 news team were covering a story about a man who had been viciously stabbed by his own brother, outside their mother’s apartment. The victim was fighting for his life in hospital.


The channel 9 reporter discussing the crime was interrupted by a maroon Holden Commodore, which pulled up slowly behind her.

The driver leaned out the window, smiling, and looked directly at the camera.


‘That’s me they’re looking for” he yelled, before driving off.


Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the mentally unstable and drug-addicted history of this driver, who would go on to drive through Melbourne’s CBD in an erratic and violent fashion. They discuss the police pursuit policy and subsequent response, and the tragic attack that would ultimately take the lives of 6 innocent people, and wound approximately 30 more.


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1) The making of the Bourke Street murder- Four Corners

2) Time bomb- The making of a killer- ABC

3) Bourke Street tragedy: Driver appeared on TV hours before pedestrians killed - The Age

4) Bourke Street drive James Gargasoulas found guilty of six murders- ABC

5) James Gargasoulas to face victims’ families as sentencing nears for Bourke St murder of six- news.com.au

6) Melbourne rampage killer sentenced to life in prison- news.com.au

7) Extraordinary footage captures alleged Bourke St attacker driving Recklessly on Flinders Street- 3AW radio

8) Guide to Coober Pedy- Australia

9) Melbourne Assessment Prison- Corrections, Prisons and...

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