Mirrors of Death (The Great Bookie Robbery) by Mark Bennett

Author:Mark Bennett [Bennett, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, non-fiction
ISBN: 9781922086426
Amazon: 1922086428
Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers
Published: 2016-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Travelling

Around 1993 I slowly started to break away from some of my mates that were on dope and in the drug trade. I kept on playing football, and still attended barbeques at friends’ houses and dinners, but only with the people who I wanted to associate with. My brain had had enough of smoking dope, and also trying to cope with everything that had happened over the years — with the deaths of so many friends over the years, and now my uncle, I just felt under pressure.

I was still living at Wilson Street in Ballarat East after the death of Norman Lee. As before I was living with Taffy, Steven and Dale — my parents still lived in Melbourne. Steven was still having dramas in his relationship with Kate — the whole family had broken down, and Steven had tried everything to get back together with her and move back in with Kate and their three kids, but she didn’t want a bar of it.

One night, going into the new year of 1993, some friends of mine that lived just off York Street, Woza and Britty, held a barbeque. The barbeque was for an indoor cricket final that the boys and I had recently won — there were a few boys there from East Ballarat Cricket Club and also Dunnstown Football Club to help celebrate. I rocked up with Steve, Dale and Taffy on the night of the celebrations; I was speaking to Steve, who had mentioned to me that he was feeling a bit crook, and wasn’t acting his usual self at the barbeque. Most of the boys were drinking piss and smoking dope, but I gathered something was wrong with Steve throughout that week. At the barbeque, Steve said he was going to see his parents out at Snake Valley, which was around a thirty minute drive from Ballarat East; Steven hadn’t seen his parents for some time. After he had left from the barbeque, he got on the road straight to Snake Valley. We all assumed that Steven was heading out to see his parents, or to see his children.

After the barbeque at Britty’s house on the Saturday night, Dale, Taffy and I brought up Steven’s behaviour in the week prior to the barbeque celebrations; it was out of character for Steven, and we were pretty sure something was wrong as the four of us had lived together for some time — he was cut up over his broken relationship but recently he’d seemed worse.

I went to work on Monday at the butchers on Sturt Street — by this stage Dale was working there full time, and Taffy part-time — and later in the day we received a phone call from Steven’s family. He hadn’t turned up at either his parents’ house or his ex-girlfriend’s house. Steven’s dad said to me over the phone that the police had found Steve’s body in his car near Snake Valley: Steven had gassed himself while sitting in his car, and was dead by the time the cops found him.

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