Dino Dibra | Australian Crime Stories | S2E07

hey give this man a double wild turkey neat i'll have a triple the same man hey dino how you going come over here mate have a line with me hey hey [Music] no worries i'm a generous man but we need to talk i know it's a bit slow there's a limit to what i can tolerate dino you and your dumb friend over there are into me for 40 large and you're both [ __ ] idiots if you think i'm gonna let this thing slide oh come on man carl's been shifting so much product he's flooded the market i just need some time you've been watching too many movies mate your problems are not my [ __ ] problems i just want my money give us another week charlie hey you can wear it yeah tim grandy tracked out along the bar what do you [ __ ] care i don't [ __ ] care two days then we go to war you got two days but get the [ __ ] out of here huh start selling before you get hurt you wanna go to [ __ ] war old man come on dino man let's go get the [ __ ] out of here boy come on he's not worth it two days that old bastard where the [ __ ] do you think he is matt charlie that's who he is you're gonna have to pay him mate he'll come after you i know where the [ __ ] lives hey this is manchester you're talking about mate he knocked off more blokes then you knocked off chicks full [ __ ] i don't care who he is hey it's either me or him it might as well be him i'm knocking him tonight where his house he'll never do it he's got security up his ass just watch me all right let's go hey mate this is a big step mate mate i'm a big guy [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [ __ ] old bastard [Music] you want a [ __ ] [ __ ] i'll give you a [ __ ] wall war's over charlie you lose [Music] meet dino debra the sunshine boy savage gangster at 13 jailed at 19 a killer at 23 and dead by 25 tonight we delve into the facts behind the fiction and discover the truth about melbourne gangster dino de bruyne de bruyne was a man in a hurry in his teens he was blood brothers with a gang of thugs including notorious future killer andrew benji veneman he was a violent and volatile drug dealer involved in murder extortion and kidnapping tonight through dramatized scenes first-hand accounts and detailed analysis of his life and crimes we meet a reckless ruthless thug who died at the end of his best friend's gun gino de bruyne was a violent gangster wannabe that's all he ever wanted to be was a gangster i'm gonna be the godfather don dino there's a number of statements in history that we uh discount the chicks in the mail and honor amongst thieves there's no such thing dino deborah was a young gun crazy deluded a minister society really a gun down your pants you could be a big shot too and dino was convinced that he'll be the biggest shot of them all when you've got nutty lunatics all on this and that and whatever you've got to be on your toes he was a man who would shoot anyone dead for no reason at all he was an absolute criminal lunatic between 1998 and august 2010 36 criminal figures were murdered in melbourne as rival gangs battled it out for control over the city's lucrative underworld de bruyne's gang the sunshine boys wanted their share of the spoils for these young guns extreme violence was always the first option and when the smoke finally cleared nearly a third of the 36 deaths were blamed on the sunshine boys or were sunshine boys themselves well this was scarface in the suburbs you know he was part of a small team of guys who were all together in high school even earlier than that who believed they were going to be the biggest team in australia and they end up falling to murder and double cross and subdivise look he was just a young albanian kid that uh that would be gangster want to be gangster he was living the dream there for a while he made enough money to start living the dream his brash was bold he was over the top he was full of juice he'd pull a gun as soon as he'd you know scratch his nose and he'd use it to benefit himself bert route is one of the few survivors of the melbourne gangland war having been shot and nearly killed in 2004. we were an older we're another generation now these kids come along made their money through drugs did their business fueled me drugs made a huge impact but then how long they last before someone knocked them or they stepped on someone's toes they were flashing the pants but they were vicious they had no scribbles only just out of his teens de bruyne already had a long police record and was into everything drugs car rebirthing theft extortion and assaulting police he was a gangster in a hurry and according to forensic psychologist stephen barron took his biggest step on november the 23rd 1988 when he murdered mad charlie hegely aspires to be a modern day gangster in other words he can do within reason whatever he wants to do and being part of the underworld allows multiple opportunities to do that you can earn obscene amounts of money by drug distribution you can start running your own cruise you can start becoming a small cog in a larger machine but in the end it comes down to street credibility killing someone else who has openly threatened him openly chastised him openly embarrassed him would simply encourage him to go the next step well he developed his nickname man charlie after biting someone's nose off in a fight when he was a young man basically he was a man who had no compunction no remorse he was extremely violent and had that reputation amongst the criminal underworld in melbourne he's tied up with business men and uh he was tied up in the drug scene and most probably he would be one of the most willing blokes you'd come across if basically someone challenged him he would produce a gun he would shoot that person so when dino dibra came across matt charlie there was only one way it was going to end either mad charlie was going to shoot dino or dean i was going to shoot matt charlie he had spent a massive session out in a few pubs down around caufield and some kilda hey give this man a double wild turkey neat i'll have a triple the same eh and i was getting rather loud and belligerent with his with his group and had been asked i think to leave a couple of pubs according to phone records mad charlie phoned dino dibra hey dino how are you going come over here mate have a loan with me it's an absolute fluke and freak of nature that he was clever enough to sneak go mad charlie charlie would have filled him full of leader and he had a second's drop on him look he lost his head he lost his awareness his house was uh very secure very fortified someone still managed to uh line weight and ambush him as he arrived home that night i'm on a [ __ ] wall i love your [ __ ] war it was just hidden in the bushes and charlie must have just had two a little bit too much to drink you know you shouldn't drink any hotels charlie people are drinking hotels and get drunk and hotels end up dying you lose he received several shots to the head and died on his pathway where i think his wife saw him in their video monitor when she awoke the next morning forensic psychologist sandy ray believes debra would have been excited about making his first kill he would have loved it because this is his chance to prove what a big boy he is he would have been absolutely on and that's what part of the gang behaviour is i've got to prove myself and here's my chance to show you i can go up to the next level once you've decided that people don't matter outside of a very small group of people everybody else is just them it's not really all that important whether they live or die i would suggest that it's probably something i saw in the movies it's only a question of being patient having the right weapon and being patient and you know charlie was careless and all careless people end up in the cemetery de bruyne was born to an albanian muslim family in 1975 and grew up in the melbourne suburb of sunshine multicultural melting pot settled by immigrants from as far afield as europe south america sudan burma and india sunshine boomed for years but as manufacturing declined in the 1970s unemployment rose leaving behind massive socio-economic disadvantage and creating a generation of kids who grew up in poverty they grew up there often their parents didn't speak very good english um dino's parents certainly didn't i've met them and they struggled a bit with english and so forth so you have these situations where these boys are more adept at being australians because they have mixed in school they've mixed in the streets and sporting fields and so forth so they're more adept at being australian if you like than their parents or sunshine's just a western suburb [ __ ] they all got around sunshine they would have grown up together playing space invaders together going to the movies together everyone saw scarface in in in sunshine they all saw scarface movie everyone pretended they were tony montana in sunshine where the demographic is a large immigrant population the children of those immigrant families often find their own ways of establishing relationships for dino is about being part of the gang and these kids these boys get together they express shared values and they start building this small gang based on shared values of brotherhood that's what dina does de bruyne's gang was made up of friends from primary and secondary school including andrew benji veneman who would later kill multiple times and mark malia who became a feared drug dealer and enforcer the boys were minted by convicted killer and martial arts champion paul calipalitis one thing he could say school teachers don't get paid enough money they have four people like that in their class do they who knows what brings them together other than a common interest and that common interest was crime and an evolved into violent crime caliph pilates was trained in martial arts he was a ferocious fighter uh a very violent human being and it was he who basically established the apprenticeships for these very serious criminal figures and he was getting involved in hydroponic marijuana uh curry birthing different things like that and these boys were willing helpers to that and so they idolized him and they would do anything for him you know forensic psychologist david mutton believes the development of de bruyne's gang followed a classic pattern youth gangs only flourish when there is an older person there guiding them they really exist in a vacuum they really exist by their own so they would certainly need someone like paul to be able to guide them to encourage them to start with they would probably commit fairly lower level anti-social sort of crimes and then it would escalate into assaults and then so they need an older person a bit of a svengali there to manage that process to to bring this out of them de bruyne's gang were from mixed ethnic and religious backgrounds de bruyne was muslim albanian benji veneman was greek cypriot and mark marley was maltese however under the guidance of paul calapalitis they would soon become blood brothers this is how the mafia does it ouch does it hurt no when they make a guy new member they draw blood swear by the rules and they're baptized you know in the mafia [ __ ] the mafia pk said we should do this together pk's greek we don't need to follow the italians who put you in charge benji i'm not in charge i just want to do it our way pk would too out your hands no left hand closest to your heart there are three rules one in all in one in all yes rule number two always chop in your brothers always chop in your brothers rule number three dino never betray your brother never brother if any of us breaks these rules they'll break the blood bond and be cast out forever we're brothers now we'll never be defeated we're going to take over this [ __ ] city and live like those rich torax bastards i guess it must have seemed almost like innocent fun at times you know taking on local shopkeepers uh fights at school when they're all in school together they'd walk into the classroom in designer track suits and the the teacher would say well you'll never mount to anything they'd say well we already are you know we're already on our way we're gonna be the biggest team and you watch this all this kind of stuff school times impeded their progress in crime they'd be out most probably stealing from letterboxes parked cars and they've been making sometimes more money than their father of making one shift to the factory calipolitis knew that there would be tensions and dramas between them so it was much better to share the spoils even it came under women or drugs or whatever it was you chopped your mates in rule number two always chop in your brothers that created bonds between them and also if you had a criminal opportunity and one of them wasn't in it well he might just turn around and lag you as well the sunshine boys were children of the 20th century and it absorbed all the gangster imagery they'd seen on tv and at the cinema blood rituals have been around for for generations and they often come from more primitive societies and it often means things like the death of the old life and the rebirth of the new life now i think with gangs in the 20th century i think it's just one big cliche they've seen it on the television they've seen it on the movies and they want to be like them and so i think it's it's a cliche of yeah we're in a gang now let's exchange blood if any of us breaks these rules they'll break the blood bond and be cast out forever they were a real handful at school they're all asked to leave at this time they're involved in car rebirthing rackets as the years went by but still as teenagers debra venuman malia they were involved in basically setting up hydroponic cannabis growing in homes routinely take 40 000 a year out of a house that was just growing pot by his mid-teens de bruyne and his gang were well and truly on the police radar by 16 he was facing theft and reckless driving charges and one officer who tussled with him during an arrest had his car blown up shortly after former detective brian murphy believes there's only one way to deal with criminals like dino de bruyne these blokes only respect superior force they like the animals if you get a dog that's uncontrollable you either can train it or you've got to use force on it to behave itself you've got to get right up in their face you've got to tell them what the rules are and if they break the rules you break them former underworld figure chopper reed believes in even swifter justice you see a 16 year old kid getting you know with gold chains as a handgun you shoot him you don't let him become a seven yeah he's got a loaded handgun he's 16 he's walking around swinging it around the place well you go pop you know it doesn't matter that he's 16. he's too bad for you you know you don't let him become seven in 1992 de bruyne picked up his first conviction for resisting police and escaping lawful custody a year later he was charged with a number of offenses including reckless conduct endangering life and reckless and unlicensed driving for de bruyne and the sunshine boys crime was a joke and getting caught was just part of the fun but if de bruyne was ever to become a real gangster it was time to start looking beyond sunshine look melbourne back then like most major cities around the western world had various groups of people who liked to think they controlled various geographical areas as always happens greed takes over and uh one or two of the small-time players decides to pick their own team and and muscle in uh and you end up with a turf war in the 90s i suppose mid-90s things like that uh becoming bigger and bigger and bigger the younger gang got into drugs with that camel the drama the brutality whatever you want to call it and things became a hell of a lot more messed up then in an effort to become serious players in melbourne de bruyne and his gang started hanging around with a notorious carlton gangster alphonse gagitano gagitano already had at least one murder to his name and was part of a loose confederation of criminals and other men with serious reputations they included jason and mark moran and their father louis graham kinniba and dominic mcgato then i did where i first met up in carlton he used to knock around with alphonse and his entourage he was being used by them to do a lot of their dirty work he wanted to ingratiate himself with the carlton crew at that time was alphonse and his stooges and he thought to become a part of it he would practically do anything for them and they paid him a wage every now and then and he was quite happy with that and he'd go back to the western suburbs and tell them more how like he was to be a friend of alfonse's despite his new powerful friends de bruyne never forgot his blood brothers they felt 10 foot tall and bulletproof when they were together particularly venomous and debra branched off and started a cannabis cartel and they were making a lot of money out of that they were also involved in a lot of gun play there were a hell of a lot of knee cappings going on anyone who stood in their way they'd pretty much use violence and extortion to to to profit and and rule those western suburbs one night in 1994 venomon and de bras were cruising around port melbourne looking for a car to steal for their rebirthing racquet rebirthing was easy money the boys would buy a wreck at auction then still an identical vehicle to cannibalize for parts and soon the wreck would be miraculously reborn for the boys it was a normal job until they discovered the car that stolen belonged to a policeman it all started when when uh benji and dino were asked to fill an order for a car rebirthing operation for a vn calais holden um they found one in port melbourne they stole it not realising it was actually an off-duty policeman's car which had a laptop computer in the boot benji was all for selling it to the uh carlton crew because this would be useful information for you know for gangsters who wanted to know about police but dino no no dino wanted to make a big scene he wanted to make a big show so they got the the address of a prominent undercover police officer and drove past his house one day the family was out there on in the front yard and so forth and they waved to this copper slow royal wave and that was the beginning of the end of their relationship from there they were picked up they were put in the cell with another man who who dino began to boast about what they'd done he was in fact an undercover policeman or informer and so they were busted when veneman received 12 months jail and de bruyne got less it appeared to the sunshine boys that de bruyne had indeed ratted them out so this was now a great wedge between uh the group and they had sworn they were going to be the biggest team in australia but now it was going to be poisonous this toxic environment just got worse and worse the gang were convinced de bruy had broken one of the most sacred rules revenge would be bloody and extreme [Music] i'll put it to you now that you're a [ __ ] dog who shot me to the jacks that's [ __ ] and you'd do it again if you had a chance i hate the jacks as much as you do i've got 12 months for jack in that car and you got a slap on the wrist they kicked the [ __ ] out of me and i still said nothing i still got a lump on the back of my skull well how come i got 12 months you dog i had a good judge you had a hard ass what what else can i say fess up dino you dogged him now you tell me why i shouldn't put a couple into you i [ __ ] dare you venoman i'm a big wheel now you wouldn't last five minutes you're an idiot we could be top crew in melbourne now bigger than gangitanos but you [ __ ] that no i never shut up we had a bond and you broke it [ __ ] never betray your brother you betrayed i saw you [ __ ] you gotta knock him if you don't kill this prick he's gonna back up on us come on mate mate we've known each other since grade four do it if he had his torn him he blows both away in a second benji we're brothers i'm gonna have to shoot you mate i can't let you get away with what you did you pranked untie me one more no wait please [Applause] you broke the bond you dog driving to the hospital what's this a taxi service of [ __ ] dogs just [ __ ] driving benji you know this prick's gonna back up on us we'll see who needs enemies when you've got friends like they had was like a nest of vipers they'd turn on each other they were kneecapping each other they were kneecapping other people and it grew to a point where they all got so big that they couldn't co-exist within their group benzie decided he had to do something about dino under pressure from other people so they uh they grabbed him one day there was a kangaroo court and benji walked around like the qc he'd seen people do in court and so forth and he said to to debra well you know you're a dog you have to pay the price now benji benji we're brothers i'm gonna have to shoot you mate i can't let you get away with what you did others on the scene urged benji to kill him at that moment you've got to knock him if you don't kill this prick he's going to back up on us but he wouldn't do it because the bonds of friendship were still there benji really hadn't fully matured into what he would become which was pretty much a heartless killer so adina was spared driving to the hospital what's this a taxi service of [ __ ] dogs just [ __ ] driving debra's arrogant boasting had inadvertently destroyed the bonds of blood and trust that kept the gang together the establishment of the gang was was about mutual trust and recognition but also about mutual recognition about each other's having a part of the gang shared measure of the gang but the difficulty rises as soon as one gand member thinks that dino for example is giving information in return for a softer sentence or no prosecution the trust is gone their personalities are ones that are fairly out of control anyway and so it's only a matter of time when the tensions within the gang are going to make the gang fall apart they're living for the moment they're having a great lot of fun a lot of adrenaline a lot of stimulation all that draws them together but also at the same time it's a force that is probably tearing them apart as well you broke the bond you dog now there's no place in this world for whims so you're going to have to be pretty pretty full-on in order for people to treat you with any respect and that's one of the key issues in that group would be this concept of respect that you have to respect me the only way to respect me is to know what happens to you if you don't you're pranked in late 1996 after a string of traffic offences de bruyne was finally sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and given a five-year driving ban he was condemned for having one of the worst driving records the magistrate had ever seen prison did nothing to curb debra's ways and he was back terrorizing the streets again by mid 1997 racking up further convictions for unlicensed and careless driving and failing to answer bail when you go to jail you meet up with other hardened criminals which it's like a college the college of knowledge and for dino it was about cementing relationships with people it was about being in the right team and so forth and when he came out he was ready to go and paul carpolitis i believe helped him set up again in the hydro business doing marijuana so there was a car for him there was money there was a shack to do his hydro in hydroponic cannabis was a lucrative business but de bruyne quickly realised there was far more money to be made dealing synthetic drugs he also started dabbling himself dangerous entertainment for someone with unlimited access to drugs paul dillon has worked in the drug education field for almost 25 years one of the main problems that drug distribution networks have is that many of the drugs are provided in crops so we have cannabis cocaine and heroin that are all linked to plant material the group of synthetic drugs that don't have a crop cycle are the amphetamine group which of course if you can manufacture them all year round you're going to increase your profit margins synthetic drug use in melbourne exploded at the turn of the century as the dance music revolution hit two of the city's biggest players were the moran brothers jason and mark they were also responsible for bringing a young carl williams into the drug business williams was was handed a speed factory he was handed control of a [ __ ] sp you might as well just go along and got the local [ __ ] and put him in charge hey here's the keys to a speed factory and press that button and uh 250 000 will come out the other end and he was only making um jason ran's stuff for two days a week and he was making his own stuff for the other two days a week and uh chase man couldn't figure it out it's now well documentated how they fell out um jason mark and carl jason popped young in the stomach and carl had an overriding hatred wanted revenge carl ended up in the boob over various things hooked up with all the um junkies arm robbers etc etc shittman as what i call them absolute shipment williams who had been a bit player and another uh organisation for one of a better term who decided he was destined for bigger and better things and of course we all know what ultimately happened to him he didn't get the cash in his superannuation either a wannabe gangster like debra would have been irresistibly drawn to players like the morans and carl williams particularly as he had begun to wear out his welcome with alphonse gagitano and the carlton crew de bruyne had discovered cocaine a drug which made him even more reckless and volatile than usual money and drugs were sending the boys who'd sworn lifelong fidelity their separate ways cracks started to splinter the group and they started finding different allegiances venomon was very much attracted to the carlton crew benji had made it his life's work to be part of the carlton crew he'd made a connection through another guy who had business in sunshine so he was now ingratiated into the system but he was he was respectful he regarded the people he was meeting like mick gatto and so forth as father figures he wanted to be close to them he was full of respect i think debra still felt some sort of affinity with his local friends and a new up-and-coming group that was being run by carl williams and he starts to build relationships with gangsters who have real credentials real street credentials the radevs and the williamses but in essence those people are using him for what he provides and that is a distribution point he thinks that he has a status in this big gang and unfortunately he's simply just being used as one of williams lieutenants de bruyne began dealing in melbourne's clubs but he was using almost as much coke as he was selling and beginning to lose what little control he had left [Music] oh the world is [ __ ] mine [Music] i'm on a roll man uh i'm gonna be number one in this [ __ ] town yeah i'm moving kyle's given a truckload man it's selling like [ __ ] a hot [ __ ] them carlton boys love me and any other bastard gets in the way gets this i'm gonna be the godfather don dino um i'm not kissing you in the ring man you're fredo mate you dumb prick on the don and you're [ __ ] freighter no man fredo died he gets like wasted on the lake in the second movie yeah he's cool [Music] that's the way it's got to be [Music] anyone that gets in the way is [ __ ] don dino takes no [ __ ] christmas man no [ __ ] not from no one not from you not from carl but from those plastic mafia boys down in carlton i'm gonna be the boss of everyone man everyone see that's what alfons said and look at him now he's like fertilizing the daisies genjitano was a weak [ __ ] no [ __ ] dash bull's ass man he had a ton of dash he was just like [ __ ] stupid shut the [ __ ] up fredo still easy on the fredo man [Music] i'll call you whatever i want fredo he was on the coke he was full of bravado full of confidence he would say anything do anything um there were incidents where he was on the coke he would get police officers to chase him just for the fun of it you know i think the same thing probably did happen that happens in most that happened in most of the uh groups they all got to like their own product too much it was there for the taking money was no object and i think their brains all got stuffed with the drugs the world is [ __ ] mine cocaine will make him detached delusional paranoid no doubt entering psychotic episodes uh do realize what we call derealization of perspective it depersonalizes more and more what is going on in their world i guess their tolerance for violence just increases and increases heavy cocaine use meant debra was also beginning to lose what little connection he had with real life the line between fantasy and reality was becoming increasingly blurred i'm told that deborah's bedroom was filled with movie posters one scene that summed him up perfectly was when he walked out of melbourne magistrates court one day and told us that he just watched reservoir dogs one too many times and that was the sort of dream world in which he was living you know he probably thought he was mr blonde and he could just run right and get away with things high on drugs and his own self-belief de bras recklessness was rapidly making him enemies he just had no fear he had no fear of members of the underworld he had no fear of members of victoria police he built a reputation within the nightclub scene as a feared thug a guy like dino felt he was a boss he was going to be much bigger than them therefore he didn't need to show respect i'm going to be the boss of everyone man everyone this started to push these guys apart as well that benji could no longer afford to have a guy like dino around i mean there was a classic example in 1998 at the dome night club in paran dino with a group of people that um that ended up shooting a bouncer there and and maiming him and this caused a huge amount of drama and for no good reason whoever had held at the gun popped two bounces at close range miraculously didn't kill them i think one vancer copped a round in the leg another bouncer copped around in his abdomen so you know people can be afraid of you but in the long term someone's going to round on you 1998 turned out to be a big year for a young gangster building a serious reputation de bruyne had made his first kill and had been a ringleader in the dome nightclub shooting he was also gaining a group of new followers ready to fight or shoot on his command and de bras old ties of blood were still holding in 1999 police received information he was back working with childhood friend benji venom this information comes from a secret police report that was submitted when they wanted to start up the investigation into dino dibber and andrew veneman's cannabis cartel the police report described debra and venomon as quote two of sunshine's most notorious criminals both debra and veneman have significant violent criminal histories they were both involved in shooting incidents and numerous hydroponic cannabis crop houses in the sunshine sub district journalist and author adam shand understands how a gang like the sunshine boys can break up and reunite despite betrayal and violence like all these friendships they're very conditional and um your enemy yesterday could be your friend tomorrow if there was a dollar in it or there was or you had common cause against a a third party it was very confusing it was a it was a game of three-dimensional chess these boys didn't play chess but if they did that's what that where it was people were colliding with each other on different uh planes if you like it got to the stage where other people were saying to benji well you've called this bloke a dog but you're hanging out with him now what's that about venom and debra's new hydroponics venture didn't last long in march police raided de bras home and found a cannabis crop and two loaded guns he received bail on the condition that he reported twice daily to police despite being under police surveillance by may de bruyne had returned to his hydroponic cannabis business always reckless in august he decided to kidnap standover man mad richard miladnich in broad daylight he was the loudest bloke in pinchbridge i took the top of his head off with a garden spade like that and he took the top of his skull right off like that lifted it up you see the brain and he said he fell over and hit his head on a rock and that's how he and so they said to him well if you're not prepared to uh make a statement against chopper reed we're not prepared to take to get take it to court how's it going hey look at here spade brain you caught up with chopper read yet mate maybe he'll give your skull back know they could tell what it back on yeah the docs can do one this next thing boys watch your [ __ ] mouths huh yeah [ __ ] you know i'm with the marantz [ __ ] i'm looking after mark making sure he doesn't come to any grief from [ __ ] men like you so where's mark you give you the day off i'm on 24-hour call i'm gonna get on a little bit of lou reed charlie if there's any gun big boy's car hey ball for fly lunge under the car hey uh you're not looking for a piece are you got some nine millimeter action going on real quality shooters yeah yeah you could pistol with a [ __ ] all day long and it still fires straight as a die show me it's in the boot see the box there right behind the way yeah just in there stop breathing get the cups on him he's a strong [ __ ] what the [ __ ] do you think you're doing did you hear him he's a bodyguard for the morans yeah i [ __ ] heard him i don't want the morons after me no we're holding for ransom marines are [ __ ] loaded [Music] [ __ ] i thought you boys are going to let me chop up [ __ ] i can spill the blow everywhere all right just pull up over here i'll try to tidy it up much do you think mick's gonna pay for him i don't know oh [Music] okay we're officially stuffed 80 grand too much he told me to get [ __ ] you say anything about me he said if he ever sees either of us ever again we're both off what about him he doesn't need a bodyguard and even if he did why would he get this junkie on board you [ __ ] lied to me you prick this was amateur hour of this kidnap and it showed exactly what sort of uh clowns and maniacs these guys were i mean they kidnapped this guy in broad daylight punched him kicked him pissed whipped him barreled him into a boot he's been in a boot before because he realizes there's an emergency opening switch and pops the the boot and jumps out so they stop the car and this is in you know footscray road full daylight people watching and they chase the bloke give him a few biffos and sticking back in the boot and off they go and i think what do we do with him now if what do they do in the movies oh well they ring up and they ransom them 80 grand too much he told me to get [ __ ] when they get no joy they bring it down and down suddenly it's 5 000 you know little did they know was that the police had the house bugged because of the dome nightclub incident and that investigation i mean they just had no no forethought they had no idea about police tactics or techniques or the police ability to get onto crooks and then investigate them in the end the the police storm the place and put on maladnachus there and and he gets released and the whole thing is a complete joke who did he think was going to pay the ransom who what what what possessed what drugs was debra taken to told him that that there was any money involved in military if you're going to kidnap anyone on earth why would you kidnap richard milanovich why would he get this junkie on board he [ __ ] lied to me you prick forensic psychologist david mutton believes de bras behavior indicates he may have been a psychopath psychopathic people often don't care about the future it's living for the moment and needing to be stimulated for the moment because these sort of characters need a lot of stimulation dino shows in his behavior even from a young young boy the inability to problem-solve the inability to plan all is is crimes are crimes of impulse they're crimes of opportunity he doesn't think of the consequences i think from his adolescent days he was probably addicted to excitement he was addicted to adrenaline he's addicted to impulse and maybe this was the the flowering of that in his adulthood dino de bruyne and two other men were charged with the kidnapping and assault of richard miladnich but the insanity continued in may 2000 de bruyne became prime suspect after richard miladnich was murdered then only two months later de bruyne was involved in a gun crazy road rage incident where a motorist was shot five times by the start of the new millennium the gangland wars in melbourne were in full flight as the bodies piled up there was an ever increasing need for guns for hire andrew benji veneman became one of the go-to killers happy to work for whichever gang could afford him despite his blood brothers growing reputation as a killer devry believed he had nothing to fear benji was a psycho he was a complete utter psycho benji swapped sides changed sides they didn't really know where they were but the one thing they could do was walk up behind you and put a bullet in your head because lindsey benjamin if he was if he was if he was any shorter he made good circus dwarf it was a two bob little flea you know um i didn't have much time for him he was a [ __ ] wombat he was on carl williams's side one day he was on uh mikkado's side of the neck stick he couldn't make up what side of the fence he was on yeah there was a time back then uh where uh certainly amongst some areas of the community and even some police officers the whole episode was referred to the self-cleaning oven because they were they were cleaning up themselves and unfortunately they're innocent people impacted by a lot of this as well had it uh had it just been them having the gunfire at the okay corral out in an enclosed space somewhere it would have saved a whole lot of drama for everyone that same year saw the final demise of the sunshine boys de bruyne had demanded loyalty from venomon in a petty spat with another member of the gang but he had overplayed his hand and venomon and the sunshine boy's old mentor poor caliparitis decided not to back de bruyne forensic psychologist wendy northey thinks that de bruyne wasn't completely oblivious to what was happening around him i think there is that element amongst career criminals that you know they they're here for a good time not necessarily a long time i think at some subconscious level they make that choice many of them must realize there is a high risk that they won't make old age he had a shack over in cranbrook street sunshine west which was known only to his close associates he would go there to chill out with his friends do business a bit of dope growing there as well he felt that was a secure safe haven for him but by this time he had quite a few enemies and he doubled across quite a few people in his circle he was going to go out on the town that night they've been to a barbecue in the afternoon with his family and so forth just a pretty normal day for dino maybe there was a terrible inevitability about the events of october the 14th 2000. for the sunshine boys who'd forged their ties and blood the final ending would have to be paid in blood as well [Laughter] anyway gentlemen uh i gotta go huh i got no time for lunch stay for your mother she doesn't see much of you these days she misses you business is business dad you know the young ones never slow down always rush rush rush this one will rush to his old funeral say goodbye to your mother and apologize she made your favorite dim what are you going but what you just got here what are you leaving so so nice i gotta go make some money yeah make you proud of me i'm always proud of you hey i didn't know you didn't bring your washing this weekend no i've been too busy how about i come over tonight i bring it we sit down have a meal you know do some talking why you're not so busy being the life of the party you'll be a good boy no more trouble with the police huh shalom ah [Applause] [Music] now you're going to die like a real gangster [Music] 25 year old convicted drug trafficker dino dibra was gunned down execution style outside a house in cambrock street west sunshine police believe there were three killers they say they know one of the gunmen but need more information to arrest him dino deborah was ambushed outside a house in west sunshine he was riddled with bullets one of those gunmen being andrew venom it was certainly felt that it was andrew benjamin was there there's a possibility that paul calapalitis may have also been there all these issues that had begun years ago in petty personal disputes were now being played out in murder it was the total disaster and destruction of the little team greg davies believes de bruyne would have known what was about to happen in the seconds before he was gunned down yeah look you would imagine uh debra may well have known who i was uh who was leaning out that car window where pointing firearms aren't even about to pull the trigger and again it's the old story of someone quicker on the draw finally confronted him at high none a lot of these fellows take that as their fight and they say well you know it's come i can't do anything about it get it over and done with because they'd seen just this happen in in in scarface where at the beginning of the film everyone's together they're all mates all on the rise by the end they're killing each other so there's certain inevitability about it i believe there wouldn't have been any hatred towards him in what benji did it was just a job they're cold calculating killers now you're going to die like a real gangster to this day de bruyne's murder remains officially unsolved with a police reward of 100 000 remaining unclaimed grieving family also appealed for more information saying they can't move on with their lives until the murder is solved anyone that has any information please come forward that's all we ask you have to put yourself in our position we need some sort of closure the 100 000 will only be paid if information provided leads to a conviction after dino's death his parents just didn't want to believe that he'd been involved in several murders and assaults and that sort of stuff so they wanted to believe that he was the nice good observant muslim boy that he'd always been but unfortunately the truth was something else a funny story from a police officer i know who arrested him early on in his career the police officer told him unless you pull your head in you'll be dead before you're 30. of course deborah by that stage was believing his own publicity he was wrapped up in his own world he'd gotten away with so much in the western suburbs he just didn't listen and he ended up another telly on the underworld scored any notion of criminal loyalty these days is a fiction this notion that crims stick together you know to the bitter end is dead and he would have known that he would have known that there's no such loyalties he's already trodden on toes so i don't think he'd be surprised that the person who kills him maybe the person that he had shared blood with at an earlier stage in some regards it's a rather interesting irony the blood that he shared as an adolescent becomes the blood that he shares as the adult at the end of a gun most believe de bruyne met his end at the hands of lifelong friends benji veneman and paul calapalitas after his death the sunshine boys disintegrated completely in 2002 venomone was the prime suspect when paul calipalitis was murdered he was also involved in the abduction torture and killing of another of the sunshine boys mark malia in 2003. he himself was then killed in 2004. it was a bloody end to a lifetime of friendship and the boys distraught families were left trying to reconcile their memories of kids with hearts of gold with their bloody and brutal criminal lives [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Australian Crime

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Keywords: Australia, Australian Crime, Australian crime documentary, Australian crime series, Gangs & Mobs, Psychology of Crime, Stalkers, child crime, con artists, crime, crime documentary, crime series, disappearances, family crime, murder, police, serial killer, true crime, true crime documentary, true crime series, Dino Dibra, True Crime Central, Australian Crime Stories

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Length: 51min 43sec (3103 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 13 2022