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  Walsh Street police shootings - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Walsh St The Walsh Street police shootings was the execution style murder of Victoria Police Officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre who were gunned down in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Australia on October 12 1988.
Police investigations revealed the shotgun used to perform the murders was the same weapon used earlier in an bungled attempt to blast open a bank door during a robbery at the State Bank in Oak Park seven months earlier.
Police placed Ryan under the witness protection program and removed him to Mansfield on October 24, 1988 for questioning, with his evidence changing many times over the course of time between the shootings and the trial.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Walsh_Street_police_shootings   (761 words)

  
 Walsh Street police shootings - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Police shot and killed Jensen at the scene.On October 12, thirteen hours later, Constables Tynan and Eyre were operating a divisional van from Prahran police station when called to an abandoned Holden Commodore left in WWalsh Street, South Yarra.
Police investigations revealed the shotgun used to perform the murders was the same weapon used earlier in a bungled attempt to blast open a bank door during a robbery at the State Bank in Oak Park seven months earlier.A gang police dubbed 'The Flemington Crew' had robbed a least four Melbourne banks.
Police were told the party of killers were Jedd Houghton, Peter McEvoy, Anthony Farrell and his uncles Victor Peirce and Trevor Pettingill.Abdallah and Houghton were later shot and killed in police raids.
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 Walsh Strret Police Shootings 1988 - Crime Scene Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Police believe members of a noted group of armed robbers and drug dealers had organised the murders after two of their own were shot by police.
Many also suggested that the Walsh Street murders were a “payback” by the Melbourne underworld for the killing of Graeme Jensen 13 hours before the constables were shot.
She informed police that her husband told her when he was planning a robbery; she knew when he was conducting surveillance on targets; and she knew when he completed a job because he came home with money.
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 Brace for more gangland shootings, police warn - theage.com.au
Police warned yesterday that underworld reprisals were likely to follow the execution-style killing of criminal Victor Peirce.
Peirce, 43, one of four men acquitted of the 1988 murders of police constables Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre in Walsh Street, South Yarra, was shot several times as he sat alone in his car on Wednesday evening in Bay Street, Port Melbourne.
Peter McEvoy, who was also acquitted of the Walsh Street shootings, later was sentenced to seven years for armed robbery and is believed to be living in northern Victoria.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/02/1019441412194.html   (718 words)

  
 Walsh Street police shootings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Police shot and killed Jensen at the scene.
The prosecution alleged 6 people were involved in the planning of the shootings, Victor Pierce, Trevor Pettingill, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy, Jason Ryan and Jedd Houghton.
Police were told the party of killers were Jedd Houghton, Peter David McEvoy, Anthony Leigh Farrell and his uncles Victor Peirce and Trevor Pettingill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walsh_Street_police_shootings   (1011 words)

  
 Revisiting the Walsh Street murders - Editorial - Opinion - theage.com.au
Jensen was shot dead by police in an arrest that went wrong in Narre Warren on October 11, 1998.
Operation Beacon was successful, and although police shootings still occur in Victoria, there has been a welcome shift in the culture of the force.
Police work is difficult and dangerous; police deserve the respect of the people they pledge to serve.
www.theage.com.au /news/editorial/revisiting-the-walsh-street-murders/2005/09/30/1127804659844.html   (696 words)

  
 Victoria Police Australia
Silk-Miller police murders - The Silk-Miller murders (also known as the Moorabbin Police murders) were the name given to the murder of Australian Victoria Police officers Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller in Cochranes Road, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia on August 16, 1998.
Walsh Street police shootings - The Walsh Street police shootings was the execution style murder of Victoria Police Officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre who were gunned down in suburban Walsh Street, South Yarra, Australia on October 12 1988.
In the remote Australian town of Brooklyn Waters a police officer and a general lack of accountability for officer conduct have been serious problems since the first book to provide an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in policing over the past ten years.
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 VCTA Comview paper on police powers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A member of the police force merely needs to believe on "reasonable grounds" that the person has committed or is about to commit an offence indictable or summary or the person may be able to assist in the investigation of an indictable offence which has been committed or is suspected of having been committed.
While it may be true that police training and resources have not shifted to cater to changes community demands particularly as reflected with police interaction with the mentally ill, it still remains difficult to account for the huge disparity in the number of shootings of mentally ill in Victoria compared with other states.
After the release of  the 1993 report the police called for the defunding of all Legal Centre’s, the Federation was referred to as the “Master of Deception” and 23 page press release was distributed to the media by the police within a few hours of the reports release.
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 Brawls Free Police Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Walsh Street police shootings - The Walsh Street police shootings was the execution-style murder of Victoria Police Officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre who were gunned down in suburban Walsh Street, South Yarra, Australia on 12 October 1988.
Russell Street Police Headquarters - Russell Street Police Headquarters was for many years the headquarters of the Victoria Police before they were moved to St Kilda Road in about 1990.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Victoria Police
The Victoria Police was formally established on 8 January 1853 from an existing colonial police force of 875 men.
The following couple of decades saw the growth of the police force, including the beginning of construction of the Russell Street police station in 1859 and the establishment of a special station in William Street to protect the Royal Mint in 1872.
At some point in the 1990s, Victoria Police were kind enough to offer the use of their hall to the 1st Victoria Police Scottish Scout Group, who in appreciation, adopted the Victoria Police Pipe Band's MacPherson tartan kilt into their uniform.
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 Print Article: Gangster ran for life but gunman ran faster
Police believe he can provide insight into the slain man's movements before he was shot.
Police believe some shootings are linked, but others play out on the sidelines.
Victor Peirce, one of those believed responsible for the murders of two young policemen in Walsh Street, South Yarra, in 1988, was shot dead in Port Melbourne, allegedly during a drug deal two years ago.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/04/01/1080544630676.html   (677 words)

  
 The World Today - Man charged in connection with shooting son of underworld boss
Two police officers, Steven Tynan and Damien Eyre, were shot dead when they went to investigate the discovery of a stolen car in the leafy South Yarra Street in October 1988.
This week she made the sensational claim that her husband was guilty as charged all along, and that she'd lied to save him from a life in prison.
Police were called to the home after reports of a fiery altercation between two men.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2005/s1476223.htm   (1039 words)

  
 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Arabs are injured.
October 12 - Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down execution style in Australia.
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=1988   (3746 words)

  
 Jedd Houghton - Crime Scene Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Houghton had been named by police witness and brother nephew of two of the co-accused, Jason Ryan as a Walsh Street killer.
Knowing police were searching for him, Houghton had been hiding out in a cabin with his girlfriend.
Police also claim to have found a number of loaded firearms in the cabin.
www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com /jhoughton.htm   (272 words)

  
 Crime in Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1977: Easey Street murders two women were viciously stabbed in their home in Easey Street, Collingwood.
In the afternoon of August 9, 1987, former army cadet Julian Knight went on a 30 minute shooting spree in Clifton Hill, killing 7 and wounding 19 before being arrested.
On October 12, 1988, two police officers were ambushed and killed in Walsh Street, South Yarra.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crime_in_Melbourne   (904 words)

  
 PM - Book explains Walsh Street shootings investigation
MARK COLVIN: Seventeen years on, the memory of two young police officers gunned down in Melbourne's Walsh Street is still fresh for many in the police and the public.
The underworld widow, Wendy Peirce, recently named her late husband, Victor, as the orchestrator of the Walsh Street shootings.
LACHLAN MCCULLOCH: Two young police, not long out of the academy, and they stepped out at about three o'clock in the morning and leant into both the driver's side and the passenger's side into the vehicle.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1475580.htm   (637 words)

  
 Stawell News
Ararat Police are encouraging the community to work with them during the Christmas period to avoid tragedy.
POLICE and road safety authorities have called on drivers to be more aware of fatigue after a series of Western Highway truck and car accidents.
AUSTRALIAN researchers believe they have discovered evidence that an 8000km-long 'supermountain range' as high as the Himalayas was the source of life on Earth The range spanned the prehistoric supercontinent...
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 Street Police
Democrat and Chronicle: 2 males shot each other on city street, police...
HADC - Desplaines Street police station after riot at Haymarket...
Desplaines Street police station after riot at Haymarket Square: Chicago, May 4, 1886.
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 Year 10 English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This Friday marks the anniversary of the shooting of three police - Michael Kennedy, Thomas Lonigan and Michael Scanlon - by the Kelly gang at Stringy Bark Creek in 1878.
It is unlikely there will be wreaths on Friday at the monument to the three dead police in Mansfield.
The shooting of police officers in Walsh Street and Moorabbin were treated with close to universal condemnation.
www.koonung.vic.edu.au /home/ps000/news/articles/nedkel.htm   (875 words)

  
 Wallace Shootings In Wausau, Detailed Information about Wausau wi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Police shootings on the rise in North County.
Walsh Jesuit High School: Walsh Park: Walsh Street police shootings...
The recent spate of school shootings has renewed the debate over gun control.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Plumbing was then torn from the walls in the cells to enable the prisoners to breathe for when the fire was started, as Jika Jika was completely free of any fresh air whatsoever.
In spite of the men's attempts to avoid the toxic fl smoke by breathing through the plumbing, convicted Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue and 3 other inmates were survivors of the fire.
Victor Peirce, member of the Pettingill family, acquitted of the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings.
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 1988 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
March 7 - Operation Flavius - The SAS shoot dead three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
Greenwood: In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (seven bodies were eventually found and Puente was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison)
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/8/1988.html   (2365 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 1988 - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
March 7 - Operation Flavius: The SAS fatally shoot three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
July 31 - 32 people were killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapsed in Butterworth, Malaysia.
August 6–August 7 - "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
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 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Arabs are injured.
Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action that takes place on the night of August 6th and the early morning of August 7th.
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
www.zdnet.co.za /1/9/8/1988.html   (4059 words)

  
 nothing..how bout you?: October 2006
I look at the woman with my eye brow raised and I can tell she's pulled back the hammer on her attitude and is ready to shoot a load of expletives at the manager if we have to wait to buy $3.00 worth of stuff.
Despite not being able to find decent parking due to two streets being cordoned off because of fallen trees.
In each one I was drinking heavily--Drinking while walking down the street, drinking at a party with my friends, drinking on line at a Bodega which suddenly turned into a party, drinking at home while watching TV.
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 1988 - Toseeka Search Results
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (seven bodies were eventually found and Puente was convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
(Iran is originally suspected of planting the bomb as revenge for the accidental American shooting of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988.)
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 1988 : search word
March 6 - SAS men shoot three IRA men in the Gibraltar
March 7 - The SAS shoot dead three Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
March 24 - Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times
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