I'm divided in whether or not it was a little selfish, obviously, for him.

Maybe he didn't think that deeply about it.

He just felt that we should be together.

So regardless of anything else that was going on around us,

it was father and son, and we should just be together.

Clary Norris was an old school career criminal.

He robbed banks and broke out of jail.

He invited people like Russell Mad Dog Cox and Chris Mr. Renterkill Flannery to

backyard barbecues in whatever house he happened to be temporarily hiding

from police with his family. He was also a devoted dad in his own way and his first stop

after a prison escape was invariably to collect his kids from the foster homes they'd been

placed in. As the years went by, Clary's youngest son Peter became his main fugitive companion.

Together, they travelled the country, evading capture and surviving any way they could.

Peter Norris has written a book about his childhood called The Bank Robbers Boy. It's a beautifully

written memoir of love, loyalty and choices. It's a big story,

so we're going to need two episodes of Australian true crime to tell it. In this first

instalment, we'll hear about Peter's earliest memories, including his first foster family,

which he thought was his family. But first, some years ago, Peter wrote a

victim impact statement with the intention of reading it to the court during a hearing into the

abuses he and other children suffered in children's homes. He was prevented from reading it in court,

but he shares it with us now. This is Australian true crime.

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