A Tale of Two Cities (16 page)

‘Aussie Bob' Trimbole: from Griffith grease monkey to globetrotting Godfather.

John Spooner's ‘Irish' Bob Trimbole, 1984.

Life in a country town … Joan Trimbole's house in Griffith, 1983.

Trimbole arrested in Ireland as ‘Michael Hanbury' in 1984. He beat the courts but not the cancer.

Below: his loyal de facto Anne Marie Presland.

The end of the road: Trimbole's body in a rural Spanish morgue, 1987.

Donald Mackay: capable, honourable man murdered for Calabrian Honoured Society.

Terry Clark: smalltime crook who built an international drug empire while no-one was looking.

Terry Clark in one of his many guises and as
The Age
's John Spooner saw him.

The million-dollar house Clark built in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, but never got to live in.

The high life … Clark loved boats and fishing. Here pictured in the Bay of Islands with son Jarrod and ‘Chinese Jack'.

X-rated: Allison Dine, former Clark lover and drug courier. Subsequently gave evidence against him as Miss X.