Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Australia's Most Wanted Man Captured Accused murderer Malcolm Naden has been arrested at a property near Gloucester north of Sydney after seven years in hiding. Produced by Australian Broadcasting Corp., powered by NewsLook

0730 ABC New England North West News 22/03/2012

23/03/2012 , 3:04 PM by ABC NENW

Catherine Clifford is in the Newsroom ...
In this bulletin, Malcolm Naden is being questioned at Taree Police Station after being arrested just after midnight on a private property near Gloucester, about 150km south-east of Tamworth; the father of one of Malcolm Naden's alleged victims, Mick Peet, says he's been waiting for this day for almost seven years; Gunnedah Shire Council has voted unanimously to adopt a new alcohol and drug policy of random testing for its nearly 180 staff; and a telephone survey of the health and well-being of people living in the Namoi catchment has revealed people are stressed by coal seam gas and the death of Senior Constable David Rixon.

 http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/0730-abc-new-england-north-west-news-22-03-2012.mp3


 Family's relief at capture of Malcolm Naden
By Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

With news this morning that NSW's most wanted man - Malcolm Naden - has been captured, one family in particular is very relieved.
After almost seven years on the run, police have caught NSW's most wanted man Malcolm Naden.http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/sydney/201203/r914116_9423542.mp3

Australia's Most Wanted Man Captured

Accused murderer Malcolm Naden has been arrested at a property near Gloucester north of Sydney after seven years in hiding.

http://www.centralohio.com/VideoNetwork/1525015540001/Australia-s-Most-Wanted-Man-Captured

 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/gallery-e6frg6nf-1226306804351?page=1

Australian police catch wanted ‘bushman’ fugitive after 7 years 

Malcolm Naden, wanted for murder and other crimes, eluded authorities by hiding out in the wildnerness


 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/australian-police-catch-wanted-bushman-fugitive-7-years-article-1.1048821

 http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/latest/13234652/malcolm-naden-rushed-to-hospital/

Australia's Most Wanted Man Captured

Accused murderer Malcolm Naden has been arrested at a property near Gloucester north of Sydney after seven years in hiding.

http://www.centralohio.com/VideoNetwork/1525015540001/Australia-s-Most-Wanted-Man-Captured




http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/news/national/national/general/inside-malcolm-nadens-secrethideout/2498943.aspx

Inside Malcolm Naden's secret hideout

Inside Malcolm Naden's secret hideout

23 Mar, 2012 02:17 PM

Reporter Matt Kelly takes a look inside the hideout of Malcolm Naden. Police captured Mr Naden after almost seven years on the run.


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I guess, to him, it would be like the Hilton as compared to the other option of sleeping outside in the wind and rain or in a wombats hole somewhere
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Gloucester community thanks strike force

27 Mar, 2012 01:00 AM
GLOUCESTER mayor Geoff Slack has paid tribute to the work of the police involved in Strike Force Durkin and their success in capturing the State's most wanted man Malcolm Naden near Gloucester last Thursday morning.Cr Slack said he had been fielding media enquiries about the successful end to the large-scale manhunt that has been based in Gloucester since January, since the early hours of that morning.
He said the police had been unobtrusive and had been extremely professional and worked well with the local community while they have been based in Gloucester.
Cr Slack said the officers involved in the arrest of Naden needed to be thanked and congratulated in apprehending the State's most wanted man.
"I'd like to thank the police for the work they've done in apprehending him, without anyone being injured," he said.
Cr Slack said residents across the shire, particularly those living in the more remote areas who have been subjected to break-ins in recent months would be particularly relieved after hearing of Naden's arrest. http://www.manningrivertimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/gloucester-community-thanks-strike-force/2501797.aspx

Details behind Naden's arrest

27 Mar, 2012 01:00 AM
MORE details of events before Malcolm Naden's appearance in Taree Local Court last Thursday have emerged.As a result of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, by law there are certain procedures that now have to take place once any Aboriginal person is taken into police custody in New South Wales to protect their rights.
Police must phone the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) and the person in custody can speak to an ALS lawyer. They are offered early legal advice and are given what is known as a 'well check' to ensure they are okay. This service is available through the Aboriginal Legal Service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Taree's Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer, Peter North was in Sydney the day one of Australia's most wanted men was captured and arrested on a property 30 kilometres west of Gloucester, so it was arranged for private solicitor Michael Jones to represent Naden.
It wasn't until after Naden's treatment in Manning Hospital between 11am and midday on Thursday and he was returned to Taree Police Station that he was officially charged.
The charges were: one count of murder (of a 24-year-old woman at Dubbo in June 2005); two counts of aggravated indecent assault of person under 16 (involving 15-year-old girl at Dubbo in 2004); and shoot with intent to murder (involving a police officer at Nowendoc on December 7, 2011).
After the short bail hearing, where bail was not applied for and was formally refused, the matter was adjourned until April 24. Audio visual link was ordered so Naden will remain in prison and appear in court on screen.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Mick Peet desperate to face Malcolm Naden over the whereabouts of his missing daughter Lateesha Nolan



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 Mick Peet desperate to face Malcolm Naden over the whereabouts of his missing daughter Lateesha Nolan

    Yoni Bashan Police Reporter
    The Sunday Telegraph
    March 25, 2012 12:00AM
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/mick-peet-pleads-to-face-malcolm-naden-over-the-whereabouts-of-his-missing-daughter-lateesha-nolan/story-e6freuy9-1226309160519


Questions Mick Peet with a photo of his missing daughter Lateesha Picture Paul Beutel Source The Sunday Telegraph

Mick Peet desperate to face Malcolm Naden over the whereabouts of his missing daughter Lateesha Nolan

THE father of a missing Dubbo woman suspected to have been murdered by Malcolm Naden will ask police if he can confront Naden in supermax jail and ask him: "Do you know where my daughter is?" Mick Peet, whose daughter Lateesha Nolan disappeared from outside Naden's home on January 4, 2005, will make the appeal to NSW Police to speak with the captured fugitive face-to-face.
"I'd like to walk straight up to him, they can handcuff me and put my hands behind my back, I won't touch him - I just want to look him straight in the eyes and ask him: "Do you know where Lateesha is?" Mr Peet told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I'm going to ask the police. I'd really like to do it. I'd be able to tell if he knows something or not if I looked him in the eyes.
"I don't want to grab him by the throat; I just want to look him in the face - there are so many things I want to know."


Mr Peet described the feeling of hearing of Naden's capture on Thursday morning as the equivalent to "seeing all your numbers come up on Lotto".
But he said Naden's capture was only "step one" in the hunt for personal closure.
"I was terrified he would be shot or would shoot himself and every day we hoped that wouldn't happened," he said.
"I praise the police a heap for bringing him in alive. (Capturing him) was step one - now there's step two and we want the answers.
"I'd like to ask him where my daughter is."
Naden was charged on Thursday with the murder of his cousin Kristy Scholes, 24, in 2005, two counts of aggravated indecent assault and shooting at a police officer.
Authorities indicated at a brief court mention that further charges may be laid against him in the near future.
Mr Peet said investigators have been cautious about indicating whether they had any new leads on his daughter's whereabouts.
"They just keep saying: 'We'd love to tell you Mick, but we just can't'," he said.

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Asia-Pacific
Australia's 'most wanted man' arrested
Murder suspect, charged over 2005 death of his cousin, apprehended by police after more than seven years on the run.
Last Modified: 22 Mar 2012 09:40
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/20123225524378284.html
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Dad's relief after fugitive caught

A BUNDABERG dad is overjoyed after being told Malcolm John Naden, the man wanted over the disappearance of his daughter, has finally been captured.

Jean and Mick Peet are ecstatic after hearing the news that Malcolm Naden, who was wanted over the disappearance of Mick’s daughter Lateesha Nolan, has been captured.
Scottie Simmonds
WHEN Mick Peet's phone rang at 1.45am yesterday, he was tempted not to answer it, thinking it was a drunken mate on the end of the line.
But that phone call changed the Innes Park man's life.
It brought him the news he has been waiting to hear for the past seven years - Malcolm John Naden, the man wanted over the disappearance of his daughter, had finally been captured.
"I got a phone call from New South Wales detectives and they said: 'We've got him'," he said.
"I just went weak at the knees."
Mr Peet's daughter, Lateesha Nolan, disappeared from her home in Dubbo, NSW, in January 2005.
Naden, her cousin, has been wanted in relation to her disappearance, as well as the alleged murder of Ms Nolan's friend, 24-year-old Kristy Scholes, and an aggravated indecent assault of a 15-year-old girl.
http://www.mydailynews.com.au/story/2012/03/22/dads-relief-after-fugitive-caught/

http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/story/2012/03/22/dads-relief-after-fugitive-caught/

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2012/03/22/dads-relief-after-fugitive-caught/
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'The new Ned Kelly': the world revels in Naden
Amy McNeilage March 23, 2012

Malcolm Naden.

"The new Ned Kelly". "Long lost convict". "Martial arts expert". "Bad bush tucker man".
These are just some of the colourful descriptions the international media have drawn on in their reporting of the capture of Malcolm Naden yesterday.
"Australia's most wanted man" has made headlines on dozens of international news websites, from Britain to India.
Some lean towards the romantic, while others venture from the facts entirely.
Much of the coverage has compared Mr Naden to notorious bushranger Ned Kelly.
More below
However, the British edition of the International Business Times has taken it one step further, weighing his survival skills against those of British train robber Ronnie Biggs, Carlos the Jackal and even Osama Bin Laden.
The bulk of the international coverage appears to have come from the three major international news wires, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
The AP story includes NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione's description of Mr Naden as a "master bushman", before explaining to readers this is "an Australian term for a wilderness survival expert".
The French news wire AFP draws parallels with "working-class hero" Ned Kelly, while Reuters said he lived "like an animal" in the rugged wilderness.
Britain's Telegraph put its own spin on the story, pouncing on a Herald headline from late last year that described the fugitive as "the bad bush tucker man".
It reported that his crafty bush skills have earnt him "an almost mythic status" in Australia.
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"Naden, known as a quiet recluse, was a martial arts expert and avid reader of the Bible, crime books and survival manuals," the story read. "He is believed to have lived off wild nuts, berries and peaches as well as prey such as wallabies and wombats."
The most interesting account may have come from Canada's Oye! Times, which looks to have taken more than a little creative licence, producing a largely fictional story.
It claims the "long lost convict" was being hunted for "the murder of a uniform policeman last December". (In fact, an officer was wounded and recovered.)
The sensational story also claims "prize money" of $100,000 was being offered to "anyone who catches him alive or dead".
"This was the first time ever in the criminal history of Australia that a bait this high was put, after Ned Kelly in the last century," the story claimed.
The NSW government did announce a $250,000 reward late last year. However, this was not for Mr Naden's head but for information leading to his capture.


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Fugitive Malcolm Naden captured weak and exhausted

Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, has been captured in NSW bushland, ending a seven year hunt for the alleged killer.
 

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If armed fugitive Malcolm Naden thought police had given up on him, he's wrong. Assistant Commissioner Carlene York said today police won't...

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 Locals say Malcolm Naden stole weapons, food and clothing from their homeshttp://www.news.com.au/national/police-trap-that-caught-australias-most-wanted/story-e6frfkvr-1226307716624


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Australia's most wanted man nabbed

Updated: 2012-03-23 08:07

By Kristen Gelineau in Sydney (China Daily)

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-03/23/content_14900787.htm

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Seven years of loss for Mick Peet

 Seven years of loss for Mick Peet 

http://media.watoday.com.au/news/national-news/seven-years-of-loss-for-mick-peet-3153499.html


http://www.theaustralianeye.com/news/australian-bush-fugitive-happy-his-seven-year-ordeal-is-over-aoi35823956.html

'Thank God it's over, I've had enough'


Brisbane Times - 1 day ago
Sitting on the sodden ground in handcuffs, surrounded by his captors, a lucid and relaxed Mr Naden said: ''Thank God it's over, I've had enough.
Naden tells police 'Thank God it's over'Ninemsn
Australian bush fugitive happy his seven-year ordeal is overThe Australian Eye
'Thank God it's over,' says Aussie fugitiveWindsor Star
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Radio Interview (Malcolm Naden) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=58OghwKsy1Y


BREAKING Malcolm Naden has been Arrested

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Suspected camp of Malcolm Naden.mp4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DsvsK3qjc&feature=related

Naden capturedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhzWuN7yCY4

Malcolm Naden has been formally refused bail over the murder of Dubbo woman Kristy Scholes

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/malcolm-naden-has-been-charged-with-murder-assault-after-seven-year-investigation/story-e6frg6nf-1226307277431

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Malcolm Naden will appear in court today after his dramatic arrest overnight http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/malcolm-naden-will-appear-in-court-today-after-his-dramatic-arrest-overnight/story-e6frg6nf-1226306768908

 

Fugitive Malcolm Naden captured by police in NSW

http://www.news.com.au/national/australias-most-wanted-man-malcolm-naden-arrested-in-nsw/story-e6frfkvr-1226306748086 

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How Malcolm Naden was caught

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Australia's most wanted captured after 7 years on the run

 

Expert bushman charged with murder

 

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Australia+most+wanted+captured+after+years/6345740/story.html#ixzz1q1TzvLNb

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

MALCOLM NADEN HAS BEEN TAKEN IN CUSTODY THE TIME IS 1.45 am 22nd march 2012

 MALCOLM NADEN HAS BEEN TAKEN IN CUSTODY THE TIME IS 1.45 am 22nd march 2012
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/malcolm-naden-captured/2496926.aspx


Malcolm Naden captured

22 Mar, 2012 02:38 AM
MALCOLM Naden, one of Australia's most wanted fugitives, has been captured north of Gloucester. A senior police source has told Fairfax that no one was injured when they swooped on the armed and dangerous man in rugged bushland.
The capture puts an end to an at times embarrassing hunt for the former meat worker who has managed to elude police for nearly seven years.
"We’ve just got off a satellite phone, so it's pretty remote but they've got him and locked him up," the police officer said.
Naden has been wanted since the discovery of the body of Kristy Scholes in the bedroom of his family's home in Dubbo in June 2005.
Police also link him to the murder of his cousin, Lateesha Nolan, who was last seen in January 2005.
A 33-year-old police officer was wounded when Naden opened fire in December last year after police received information leading them to a campsite near Nowendoc.
Earier this month NSW police announced Naden was in possession of a semi-automatic firearm.
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MALCOLM NADEN HAS BEEN TAKEN IN CUSTODY THE TIME IS 1.45 am 22nd march 2012

MALCOLM NADEN HAS BEEN TAKEN IN CUSTODY THE TIME IS 1.45 am 22nd march 2012

Sunday, March 18, 2012

“Manhunt"' 60 minutes

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Story transcripts

Manhunt

Friday, March 16, 2012
Reporter: Charles Wooley Producer: Danny Keens

He's Australia's most wanted man and the most elusive.
Malcolm Naden has been on the run for seven years, crisscrossing some of our harshest terrain.
It seems every time the police get close, Naden slips back into the scrub and the shadows. He's becoming a legend of sorts - like those bushrangers of old.
And just like them, there's a bounty on his head.
But Malcolm Naden is no hero.
He's a desperate man, armed and dangerous and he needs to be caught. But join this manhunt for a few days, as Charles Wooley did and you soon realise just what the police are up against.

Full transcript:

INTRODUCTION – CHARLES WOOLEY: He's Australia's most-wanted man and the most elusive. Malcolm Naden has been on the run for seven years, crisscrossing some of our harshest terrain. It seems every time the police get close, Naden slips back into the scrub and the shadows. He's becoming a legend of sorts – like those bushrangers of old. And just like them, there's a bounty on his head. But Malcolm Naden is no hero. He's a desperate man, armed and dangerous and he needs to be caught. But join this manhunt for a few days and you soon realise just what the police are up against.
STORY – CHARLES WOOLEY: Only a four-hour drive from Sydney, but as remote as you can get. There are places here no man has stood. 80,000 hectares of ancient geological violence, the Barrington Tops National Park is so tortured, twisted and bewildering it defies navigation. It is also where Australia's most-wanted fugitive, Malcolm Naden, plays a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with police.
POLICE: I need to remind you all about the dangers out there in regards to Malcolm Naden. He has shot already to avoid apprehension and he is an extreme danger to us.
CHARLES WOOLEY: This is Strike Force Durkin – one of the biggest police manhunts in Australian history. And as with our most famous cop chases, this one has been infused with the mystique of the bush-ranger – part threat, part legend.
CHARLES WOOLEY: We've spoken to a few local people and I'm not sure they have the feeling he is that dangerous anymore?
POLICE: This person is a murderer, he has shot to avoid apprehension and we consider him extremely dangerous.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Malcolm Naden is alleged to have committed a litany of crimes. Arrest warrants have been issued for the sexual assault of a Dubbo school girl and the murder of 24-year-old Kristy Scholes. Naden's also wanted for questioning over the disappearance of his cousin, 24-year-old Lateesha Nolan.

MICK: I've got a feeling that she might be around here somewhere. This is where her car was found, just up the side of the river here.
CHARLES WOOLEY: It's seven years since Lateesha Nolan was last seen. Her car was found here, by the Macquarie River in central New South Wales. And mysteriously, years later, her wallet washed up on the bank. For dad Mick Peet, this place is the only physical link he's got to his daughter. How do you think he's bearing up?
JENNY: He doesn't deal with it good. I see it every day and it breaks my heart. So it hurts cause I don't want to see him go through what he has to go through.

CHARLES WOOLEY: Mick's life is blighted by having to imagine his daughter's final moments – an endless churn of questions.
MICK: I think he may have committed a sex crime on my daughter, she's resisted and I think he's murdered her and put her in the river.
CHARLES WOOLEY: And that is last thing you really want to think?
MICK: That's the last thing I want to think, that's for sure. She was my first child, she was 24-years-old and she had four kids.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Nobody has more interest then you in the apprehension of Malcolm Naden. He needs to be caught doesn't he?
MICK: Yeah, he needs to be caught.
CHARLES WOOLEY: If only to give you the answers you need.
MICK: Exactly.
CHARLES WOOLEY: How have you handled this?
MICK: It's been pretty hard.
ALLAN: I watched the young Naden grow up…
CHARLES WOOLEY: So this is the house here
ALLAN: Yeah, this is the house.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Allan Nolan is Malcolm Naden's uncle – he knew him long before Naden became Australia's most wanted and watched his nephew slide into a dark and isolated world – retreating to his bedroom, shunning even his family. There's a girl dead and another missing – when do you start to add things up, when does Malcolm come into the frame as far as you are concerned?
ALLAN: When Kristy was found in the room deceased and it was Malcolm's bedroom of course.
CHARLES WOOLEY: The room which he keeps locked?
ALLAN: The one that he keeps locked and the one that you don't see him leave. He was isolated in there and well, nobody else was allowed in there. For some ungodly reason he took a life in there.
CHARLES WOOLEY: That was back in 2005 – and Naden's been on the run ever since. Despite thousands of police hours, hundreds of officers in the field and a $2.5 million bounty on Naden's head, he's still out there.
CARLENE: It's very frustrating because it's so difficult, it's so remote.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Assistant Commissioner Carlene York is in charge of Strike Force Durkin. Is it embarrassing to you that after so much time, you still haven't got him?
CARLENE: No, it's not embarrassing. It's a very difficult task. The difficulty has been in that rugged bushland he can get away and then secret himself again so it's a very, very difficult operation and it's quite different to what you would do in a suburban community.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Here, in some of the roughest country in Australia, the fugitive Malcolm Naden is widely regarded as some kind of will-o'-the-wisp, able to vanish into the landscape. From time to time he is seen here, he is seen there, he is sort everywhere – but the sightings are rarely confirmed. He has become as insubstantial as the very mist that so often shrouds this mountain wilderness. One tiny human needle in such a vast and daunting haystack. Adam, from your training, what are the key aspects of survival?
ADAM: You have water, shelter and food – your three basic elements to survival.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Survival and evasion behind enemy lines are matter-of-fact basics for former army reconnaissance and surveillance paratrooper, Adam Mulcahy.
ADAM: He's not going to be up high, he will be down low where the river system is cause this is where you have food, water and you make your shelter quite easily.
CHARLES WOOLEY: And when there is only one person?
ADAM: One person – it's obviously easier to hide with one person.
CHARLES WOOLEY: And Adam shows us how. Oh mate, it's all up and down here isn't it? There's not much flat land.
ADAM: No, not in the Barrington Tops. It's pretty steep in this country.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Oh, but there is a little hideaway! From the outside, I wouldn't have known there was a fire in there.
ADAM: No, you can't see the fire. It is at the base of the tree, the fire is quite small. He could hear them coming, smell them coming, bring down the canopy on top of him, put out his fire. That can all happen in a matter of seconds, someone would walk past and be none the wiser.
CHARLES WOOLEY: And you've got some meat smoking there? Some kind of meat?
ADAM: Yeah, road kill.
CHARLES WOOLEY: You'd eat that?
ADAM: You're in a survival situation so road kill would definitely be an option of choice for food. Preserves the meat over a long period of time. You can sustain for six months having dried meat. It ends up like beef jerky basically.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Adam, you have been trained for this but to do it for five or six years?
ADAM: It would definitely take a toll on someone doing this all the time.
PROF MULLEN: Anyone who's in a situation of long-term social isolation, what happens is they become increasingly aroused, intense. They become increasingly suspicious and they often become increasingly aggressive. His satisfaction comes from day-to-day survival and every day he stays free, I suspect is a day from him which is worthwhile and gratifying.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Police psychological profiling puts Naden in the most severe and unstable category. Forensic psychiatrist Professor Paul Mullen has spent a lifetime with some of Australia's darkest criminal minds – including the man behind the Port Arthur massacre, Martin Bryant. Looking at his behaviour before he went on the run, already he was practicing for a life of isolation?
PROF MULLEN: This was a man who was finding other people increasingly frightening, increasing problematic. He was hiding away, he was sure that he was in danger so he will feel safer out there, away from people, than he did before all these events occurred and he fled.
CHARLES WOOLEY: I know he shuns humanity but is he lonely out there?
PROF MULLEN: Not by this time no. I mean, his world has changed. He probably feels relieved not to have to deal with other people who he fears and suspects and now his world is a world of the bush.
CHARLES WOOLEY: So he has become in fact a creature of his environment, some of the most rugged country in Australia?
PROF MULLEN: Absolutely. Very sensitive to his environment. Probably knows it backwards by now.
CHARLES WOOLEY: But Naden's not only a creature of the wild. He sometimes seeks shelter in the abandoned homesteads that dot this unforgiving landscape. And everyone around here has their own Malcolm Naden story. Lynne and Dave Daly run cattle here, perhaps closer than they might know, to where the fugitive roams free.
DAVE: There was just a bloke who stopped me on the side of the road, saying he was bogged.
LYNNE: He wanted Dave to go off the road down a couple of kilometres to pull him out – he said his truck was stuck. Dave said later, "I wouldn't have a clue if that was Malcolm Naden or not."
DAVE: We didn't know what he looked like until just recently and so there are a whole lot of people who sort of wander around up here, a lot of pig-shooters, a lot of other itinerants around.
CHARLES WOOLEY: But perhaps Naden's closest encounters have been with the very people he's trying to evade. Naden has been within metres of the police – not once, not twice, but three times. In one case – after finding him holed up in a holiday hut – officers let him slip out the back door. And shortly after, Naden shot and seriously injured a pursuing officer – once again slipping the police net.
CARLEEN: Police were going in through the bush when they came very close to what was later confirmed to be his campsite. They didn't see him at all and the first thing that they knew was that he was there was when our officer was shot.
CHARLES WOOLEY: That really ramped up the game, didn't it? Shooting a cop when you're on the run is not a great thing to do?
CARLEEN: No, it's not a sensible thing – it did ramp it up.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Do you want him dead or alive?
CARLEEN: We want to take him alive. We want to negotiate with him and try and reason with him to give himself up peacefully and we'll take him into custody.
CHARLES WOOLEY: Meanwhile, almost a world away on the Macquarie River, a father waits to find out how his daughter died and why and where the body lies. They start to think he is some kind of romantic bush figure, don't they? Not a deranged murderer.
MICK: My daughter didn't lose her life to no Ned Kelly. She lost her life to a murderer.
CHARLES WOOLEY: And a very sad man, really.
MICK: A very sad man. He needs to be brought in and just pay for his crimes.

Friday, March 16, 2012

A long track to justice plus “Manhunt"' 60 minutes sunday 18th march 7.30

 “Manhunt"' 60 minutes sunday 18th march 7.30

 60 Minutes Australia the story on the “Manhunt''
investigate with Charles Wooley Fugitive regarded as one of Australia's most wanted man Malcolm John Nadenhttps://www.facebook.com/events/247886378635674/?ref=notif&notif_t=plan_user_joined

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Naden on the run

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A long track to justice