The ‘Walsh Street’ killings arose when police and armed robbers went to war in Melbourne in 1988. Both sides, convinced the other had started the war, were righteous in the letting of blood. The packs held sway and their deeds left many casualties, and a bitter legacy.
Using material the jury and the public never saw, A Pack Of Bloody Animals tells the story of that war. It re-examines the evidence, much of it in the players’ own voices, or in previously unpublished interviews with the accused shooters made soon after their acquittal.
This big story raised the toughest law-and-order questions of the decade, captured public attention and occupied those in the corridors of power, media and the law.