Underbelly (29 page)

Missing, believed dead: the studio shot released by police a week after Revelle disappeared.
COURTESY BALMAIN FAMILY

A creep – but is he a killer? Gavin Owen Samer pawned his girlfriend's clarinet to pay a pimp but insists he did not harm Revelle Balmain.
COURTESY
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Mr Big Mouth: Lennie McPherson in the frame, talking.
BRENDAN ESPOSITO: FAIRFAX

Mr Fixit and Mr Big: George Freeman and Lennie McPherson at Paddles Anderson's funeral.
JACKIE HAYNES: FAIRFAX

Crocodile smile: charming, cunning and treacherous, Freeman knew bent cops who reputedly gave Christopher Dale Flannery his last lift.
DAVID TROOD: FAIRFAX

Locked and loaded: a pregnant Deb Locke set to tip a bucket on fellow cops.
ANDREW TAYLOR: FAIRFAX

Violent night: Barry Michael paid twice for his title win over Lester Ellis. Once in the ring, later in a nightclub brawl.
COURTESY BARRY MICHAEL

Alphonse Gangitano: his goons held down Barry Michael while he bit and bashed him.
SLY INK ARCHIVES

Blood brothers: the veteran Michael consoles his young opponent Ellis after taking his world title. Ellis forgave him. Gangitano didn't.
COURTESY BARRY MICHAEL

Wrong way: ‘Big Bill' Waterhouse with trouble-prone son Robbie and loyal daughter Louise at the height of the Fine Cotton debacle.
ANDREW TAYLOR: FAIRFAX

Guilty and innocent: Hayden Haitana the fast talker with Fine Cotton the slow galloper. Haitana went to jail, Cotton to greener fields.
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Man in the middle: trainer George Brown before he went to Sydney, where he was tortured and killed when a ring-in went wrong.
COURTESY BROWN FAMILY

Bold personalities: Bill and Robbie Waterhouse and their bag man before the Fine Cotton disgrace.
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