A witness finds his courage and a killer is convicted - #160

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Paul Bellia was just 16, hanging out with his friend Ricky Balcombe in the local shopping mall on a Friday afternoon when an older man walked up to them and stabbed Ricky to death in 1995. Paul spent the following 23 years caught between police asking him to testify against their main suspect and the many intimidating people in his community warning him not to. Some of whom had once been his friends. He also had his own demons to deal with.

The events during and after the trial that saw Ricky’s killer finally convicted, seemed to prove Paul was right to be intimidated.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.5	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.
0:30.0	We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal elders emerging.
0:37.0	The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.
0:45.0	Good day.
0:49.0	It's great sentencing.
0:51.0	It's what we hoped for.
0:52.0	Will you please for the outcome?
0:54.0	Yes, I was.
0:55.0	What is 26 years been to you?
0:58.0	The time doesn't mean anything really.
1:00.0	He'll never been rigged back to us.
1:02.0	But it's a good time.
1:05.0	Thank you.
1:08.0	Do your justice has been served?
1:10.0	Yes, we do. Thank you. That's a jalong woman, Christine Loader, speaking on the steps of the Supreme Court of Victoria,
1:31.7	after Carl Haig had been sentenced for the stabbing
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