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Case 24: Russell Street Bombing (Part 1)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

[Part 1 of 2]

Haros Avenue in Nunawading (Melbourne) presented a problem for the police surveillance team following the red Jaguar. It was a small dead-end street. No way to observe the house there bank robbery suspect was heading to, without being obvious…

To avoid being detected the police had no choice but to let the suspect out of there sight. There was only one way in and out of Haros Avenue, so the suspect would have to come back past them eventually…

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0:00.0

Hello Superkins here, and I've teamed up once again with the LEGO Group to bring you

0:04.0

series two of my podcast at your leisure.

0:07.6

Expect more excellent guests, sharing more unusual hobbies.

0:12.0

Tune in and catch my conversations with singer and songwriter Tom Grennan, actor, writer

0:16.4

and comedian Baba Tunde Elisha, singer, model actor and presenter Kimberley Walsh, and

0:22.5

many more.

0:24.1

Listen to the at your leisure podcast with me, Superkins on Global Player.

0:44.3

Nana Wording is a suburb just outside of the main city area of Melbourne in the state of Victoria.

0:50.4

It was 11.30am Thursday the 27th of March 1986, and Harus Avenue in Nana Wording presented a

0:59.6

problem for the police surveillance team following the red jaguar. There was a small dead end street.

1:06.4

No way to observe the house their bank robbery suspect was heading to without them being obvious.

1:12.4

To avoid being detected, they had no choice but to let the suspect out of their sight.

1:16.6

It was only one way in and one way out of Harus Avenue, so the suspect would have to come back

1:22.4

past them eventually. No big deal they thought, as they parked outside Harus Avenue, keeping a close

1:29.0

eye out for the red jaguar. When the 1979 model Holden Commodore drove out of the street,

1:35.7

the police weren't to know their suspect was inside. They were looking for a red jaguar, not a Commodore.

1:42.6

There was a stroke of luck for the suspect. He had no idea the police were watching him.

1:49.2

The change of cars had nothing to do with avoiding the police table.

1:52.3

There was a far more sinister reason for the switch. Back in 1986, the Victorian police headquarters

2:18.2

building was located on the corner of Russell Street and La Trove Street in Melbourne.

2:23.4

Opened in 1943, the building was recognised as a symbol of policing in Victoria and was referred

2:29.7

to by many officers simply as Russell Street. The building housed many different police units

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