Barrenjoey Road 05 | The Big Bad Wolf
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Neville Tween appeared at the inquest into Trudie’s disappearance in 2011. Unravel has been given access to Tween’s evidence — and for the first time ever, his voice is being aired.
This is the man that multiple detectives think is responsible for the assaults on the northern beaches in the '70s, as well as the disappearance of Trudie Adams.
As the evidence is presented against Tween — will he dig in, or fess up.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Just a warning before we start. |
| 0:07.7 | This episode contains intense stuff, including descriptions of sexual assault. |
| 0:12.7 | Also, if you haven't listened from episode one, you should go back and start there. |
| 0:31.6 | No. Six hours drive west of Sydney is a small country town called Leighton. In the 50s, Brian McVicker was a student at the town's only Catholic school run by nuns. |
| 0:38.3 | The people there, they did a fantastic job. |
| 0:41.3 | A lot of farming boys, much bigger than the nuns were, big healthy strapping young fellas |
| 0:46.3 | and how they contained them, I got no idea, but they had a long bit of cane there, |
| 0:51.3 | which certainly kept us into a bit of order. |
| 1:00.4 | One day a new boy showed up at his school. |
| 1:05.5 | Well, originally he arrived at the converse school I went to. |
| 1:09.9 | The rumours at that time, he'd been in a bit of trouble, just floating around the town like rumours do in a small |
| 1:11.2 | country town. Nobody in Leighton had much money in the 50s, but Brian remembers this mysterious |
| 1:18.2 | new kid showing up with a lot of lollies. The people at that school, he's sort of given handfuls |
| 1:26.5 | the lollies to different people and he's just throwing |
| 1:28.8 | them up in the air and making a bit of a hero of himself at the time. |
| 1:32.3 | The lollies, stolen. The kid, his name was Neville Twain. |
| 1:39.3 | He was just one of those kids destined for problems, you know. |
| 1:43.3 | Just a few years later, Tween was admitted to a boy's home. |
| 1:47.0 | And the crimes continued, getting more serious, |
| 1:51.0 | assault, escaping jail, possessing explosives. |
| 1:55.0 | Brian McVickers' path went in the opposite direction. |
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