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🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Simon Fenech’s ice addiction transformed him from an athlete, husband and father with a 5 bedroom house and a Harley to a former inmate lining up for food parcels at inner city churches. How did he lose so much and how has he found so much more? He joins us to explain.
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0:46.0 | You know, they were very, very dark days. |
0:48.0 | I was dealing ice at a high profile and, you know, I was dealing to police as well. Simon Fennick is a man who does nothing by Harb's. So even though there was nothing |
1:09.5 | about his childhood or youth that made him a typical candidate for jail. In a way it's not surprising |
1:16.2 | that soon after trying meth for the first time he became a massive addict and serious dealer. He's always been an overachiever. |
1:27.2 | This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry and Emily Webb. |
1:31.6 | Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers, how people |
1:36.4 | become victims and what happens next. |
1:40.9 | Even during our latest pandemic, |
1:42.5 | lockdown Simon is still overachieving in my opinion. |
1:46.1 | His first book has been released. |
1:48.3 | It's a memoir called Breaking Good, |
1:50.5 | and the not-for-profit that is his passion, fruit to work, is still functioning, though not in the way |
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