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Reasonable Doubt: Spies, Police and the Croatian Six
Reasonable Doubt: Spies, Police and the Croatian Six
Reasonable Doubt: Spies, Police and the Croatian Six
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Knock, knock — it’s a hot summer night in 1979 and Roger Rogerson is at the front door with a posse of Sydney’s toughest cops. Sticks of gelignite are discovered, and the family’s young men are taken off for a rough night at CIB headquarters, joined by others arrested in simultaneous raids across the city. For them, and the entire community of migrants from Croatia, it’s the start of a nightmare, ending in 15-year jail terms for terrorist conspiracy. But even during their 10-month trial, holes appeared in the police case. Later the chief crown witness confessed on TV he made up his crucial testimony.
Decades later, a chance reference drew journalist Hamish McDonald to explore this case. He uncovers evidence that authorities took pains to conceal from the court: that the crown witness was an agent of the Yugoslav secret service and had been under ASIO surveillance. This book shows how an unreformed police force, inept politicians, scheming security men, and mutually back-slapping judges contributed to Australia’s biggest miscarriage of justice. It’s Sydney’s underbelly, with a dash of international intrigue and espionage.

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Release dateApr 29, 2019
Reasonable Doubt: Spies, Police and the Croatian Six
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Hamish McDonald

Hamish McDonald has been a foreign correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Beijing, was the Asia-Pacific editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and has twice won Walkley Awards. He is the author of books on Indonesia and India, and was made an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2008. He is now based at the Australian National University, and is the World Editor for The Saturday Paper.

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