The young law student who began robbing TABs - Part 2
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This is the second part of a two part series with our guest, Arthur Bolkas.
In his late teens and early twenties, Arthur was pulling double duty as a promising young law student and an armed robber.
We discovered at the end of part one that Arthur was eventually captured after a very dramatic car chase through the streets of a busy inner Melbourne suburb.
We now pick up our conversation with Arthurs memories and reflections from his sentencing, incarceration and life after prison.
Arthur has now worked for many years as a Criminologist, activist and public speaker. He can best be contacted here on his Facebook page.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Arthur Bolkas
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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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. |
| 0:07.4 | 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 Bazzina 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. |
| 0:25.8 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.1 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.4 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:42.0 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | Prison is an extreme subculture and if you step into that subculture and you don't know how that world works, the rules, you can |
| 1:17.6 | get seriously hurt. |
| 1:19.4 | And the scary part is that I slowly learned to cut it. |
| 1:23.2 | And at the three and a half four year mark, honestly, |
| 1:27.6 | the person I was most scared of was me. |
| 1:35.0 | This is the second part in a two-part series with our guest Arthur Bolkis, |
| 1:40.0 | who has worked for many years as a criminologist, activist and public speaker. |
| 1:44.6 | But in his late teens and early 20s, Arthur was pulling double duty as a promising |
| 1:49.2 | young law student and an armed robber. We discovered in part one that Arthur was eventually captured after a very dramatic car chase through the streets of the inner Melbourne suburb of Perrin. |
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