Sydney Escorts: Guns, drugs and money
March 28, 2012
Bruce Bullock, former ACC Melbourne Operations Manager and Michael Purchas, former ACC Sydney operations manager. Photo: Supplied
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In 2007, the ACC’s Sydney operations manager was Michael Purchas, a tall, intense figure who had spent almost four decades in policing. Purchas was the agency’s quintessential “unreasonable man”, surviving on results and results alone. His boss was Gregory James*, a former undercover agent for a European security agency who, as an ACC senior manager, had the reach and diplomatic nous to win support from his fellow executives. Purchas’s ACC offsider in Melbourne was Bruce Bullock, an Asian organised crime specialist with a unique flair for running complex, long-term operations and who, with James, would later be assigned to stake out the Macau casino. The last of the four was Swedish-born Patrick Vikingsson, a brilliant and obsessive intelligence specialist who had spent two decades as one of the NSW Crime Commission’s top analysts before joining the ACC.
Sydney Escorts: Woman ‘doused with petrol and set on fire’
March 28, 2012
A woman suffered burns to 40 per cent of her body after being set on fire in Sydney’s south. Picture: Channel 9
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Police outside the Golden Flower Brothel on Regent Street, Chippendale. Picture: Bill Hearne Source: The Daily Telegraph
Woman doused in petrol, set alight in south Sydney Rushed to hospital with burns to 40 per cent of body Two men were seen running from the scene
A WOMAN was heard screaming after she was doused with petrol and set alight by a man while walking through Sydney, suffering burns to about 40 per cent of her body.
The 33-year-old was walking along Regent Street in Chippendale about 9.45pm (AEST) last night when a man approached her and set her alight.
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The woman was rushed inside a nearby business, believed to be a brothel, where an employee extinguished the flames.
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A woman who was set ablaze by a man in a Sydney street was a victim of a “targeted attack”, police say.
The 33-year-old Korean national, who is in a critical but stable condition in hospital this afternoon, screamed in pain after being set alight in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner west at 9.45pm yesterday.
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The Golden Flower brothel, where a woman was taken for help after a man set her alight on Regent Street. Photo: Stephanie Gardiner
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The woman was taken into the Golden Flower brothel, where police said an employee put out the flames with water, wrapped her in towels and called emergency services.
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It was also not clear whether the woman had any links with the brothel, but police do not believe she had been inside the business before the attack, she said.
Her family in Korea have been informed and are making plans to come to Sydney, police said.
Sydney Escorts: Woman set alight while walking in Sydney
March 28, 2012
A woman was heard screaming after she was set alight by a man while walking through Sydney.
The 33-year-old was walking along Regent Street in Chippendale about 9.45pm local time last night when a man approached her and set her alight.
“A man followed her down the laneway, chased after her and set her alight. She was screaming, obviously in pain,” Acting Inspector Sam Crisafulli told ABC radio on Friday.
He said bystanders had seen the attack and rushed to her aid.
“They heard the noise and came to help.
“They have taken her inside and attempted to extinguish the flames with water.”
The woman was rushed inside a nearby business, believed to be a brothel, where an employee extinguished the flames.
Paramedics treated her for severe burns to her upper body, before taking her to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital where she is in a critical but stable condition, Mr Crisafulli said.
Sydney Escorts: Swimming in Sydney
March 28, 2012
Swimming in Sydney
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Finally, Sydney Harbor itself awaited. It’s an exciting place: on any given day, sailboats, kayakers, and small power boats dart among commercial tankers, towering cruise ships, and commuter ferries. You can hop on and off the ferries for a swim at the many inlet beaches, which are netted against sharks to keep swimmers safe. I swam among the docks and pilings at a friend’s house one day. And another day we joined other lucky sailors, who glided in and dropped anchor at Quarantine Beach, a small isolated stretch so named for the mandatory first stop for certain seafaring visitors. The Quarantine Station operated as late as 1984, and is now a luxury hotel. We swam in from the boat through the cold and warm currents to loll along the beach a while.
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No Sex Please, We’re British will have the audience giggling throughout when it opens at Campbelltown’s Town Hall Theatre on Friday night at 8pm.
Company artistic director and production director David Owens said the show would be a lot of fun.
“There’s a lot of action in the show and the acting is really excellent,” he said.
“It’s a fast paced show.
Set during the 1970s, No Sex Please, We’re British follows a young bride who lives above the Windsor sub-branch of the National United Bank with her husband, the assistant manager. When the young bride innocently sends a mail order for Scandinavian glassware, she is shocked when she instead receives pornography. The plot revolves around what is to be done with the flood of pornography, photographs, books, films and eventually even call girls who threaten to engulf this happy couple.
See the full article from “Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown”
Sydney Escorts: Cop killer sentenced for prostitute’s murder
March 18, 2012
Cop killer sentenced for prostitute’s murder
Updated February 24, 2012 19:32:02
A Victorian man has been sentenced to life in jail for the 1995 murder of a Sydney prostitute.
Bandali Michael Debs is already serving life sentences for three Victorian murders – the shooting of two policemen at Moorabbin in 1998 and the killing of an 18-year-old sex worker the year before.
On Friday the 58-year-old was sentenced for the murder of Donna Hicks, a 34-year-old prostitute who he picked up on the Great Western Highway at Minchinbury.
Her naked body was found in long grass nearby the next day.
Debs had shot her in the head.
Justice Robert Hulme said he showed no remorse, describing the murder as a heinous crime that demonstrated a complete lack of humanity.
The prisoner wore a suit for the sentencing but did not react to the judge’s words.
See the full article from “ABC Online”
THE last thing Sydney needs is another casino. But Premier Barry O’Farrell thinks James Packer’s plan for a $1 billion high rollers den on crown land at Barangaroo is an “exciting proposal”.
You’d think he’d realise there’s trouble enough with The Star casino at Pyrmont.
This week, the Premier had to stand down his media adviser Peter Grimshaw over allegations he used work emails as part of a campaign against former casino boss Sid Vaikunta, who was sacked for allegedly sexually harassing Grimshaw’s girlfriend, a former human resources executive for The Star. But the real story of the casino is that The Star has been an unsavoury place for a long time.
The NSW police Asian Crime Squad claims many of its targets are among The Star’s top 100 gamblers in the high roller room. The squad has told the Casino, Liquor and Gaming Control Authority it is concerned that money-laundering , loan sharking, prostitution and recruitment of people into organised crime is occurring at the casino.
Sydney Escorts: Former teacher guilty of sexual assault
March 6, 2012
SYDNEY — A former teacher who admitted to being a sex addict was convicted Monday on two charges involving a drug addict who admitted to being a part-time prostitute in order to secure cash to feed her habit.
Michel Joseph Aubin Vienneau, 44, was convicted of unlawful confinement and sexual assault. He had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of assault stemming from the same incident. Vienneau, formerly of Sydney but now living in Glace Bay, continues his release on conditions pending the outcome of his sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for April 23. He formerly worked as a teacher at Etoile de l’Acadie in Sydney. In addition, Vienneau is also charged with two counts of breaching court orders and a single count of obstruction involving the same victim. The offences allegedly occurred after he was released on conditions on the sexual assault and unlawful confinement. It is alleged that Vienneau made contact with the woman when he was ordered not to have any contact. He is scheduled t …
FIGHTING plans for a brothel at Narellan last year came at a cost of almost $60,000 for Camden Council but councillors described the battle as a fight they had to have.
The Land and Environment Court overturned the council’s decision to change the use of an office building to a sex premises in Kibble Place during a hearing in December.
Mayor Greg Warren (pictured) said the council’s position to refuse the sex premises reflected the concerns of the community, but “never take a knife to a gun fight”.
“The community expected we take up the fight,” he said. “But it’s time to move on.”
Sex premises owner Greg Hall said the money funding the court battle could have been better spent on community projects.
“There are thousands of places it could have been spent than to waste it in court for a decision we all knew was going to get through anyway,” he said.