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Two shots: In six seconds on a quiet suburban street, one of Australia’s highest ranking cops lied dead [Colin Winchester]. 60 Minutes Australia: Mafit Hit, 2023
Second most senior police officer in Australia has just been assassinated. ibid.
The very real possibility that his execution was a Mafia hit. ibid.
On November 3rd 1995, 6 years after Colin Winchester’s murder, and an epic 85-day trial, much of it built on circumstantial evidence, [David] Eastman was found guilty. He was sentenced to Life in prison … In 2018 [David] Eastman was acquitted and paid more than seven million dollars in compensation for his time in jail. ibid.
With this bust police are handed an incredible and unexpected breakthrough in the greatest unsolved Mafia hit in Australian history: the murder of Donald Mackay. ibid.
In 1980 Winchester has taken on an undercover drug operation. When two are arrested with marijuana from his operation, the godfathers press for action. ibid.
But Winchester and the AFP had no involvement in these raids … These operations cost the Mafia an estimated half a billion dollars. ibid.