$653,000 in gold bullion stolen from the Perth Mint in West Australia. No violence, no victim and precious little evidence, yet three brothers were convicted and given sentences of 12, 16 and 20 years. The brothers maintained that they were framed.

This book demonstrates shortcomings in the 'security' of installations and services dealing with gold bullion, subsequent police investigation, and the judicial process in Australia's wild west.

Relevant to everybody in that the authors' observations published in 1985 are being proven factual in 2002 - Evidence was manufactured and destroyed so that jury members were not given the opportunity to dispense justice - and this in a western, first world democratic society.

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Avon Lovell

Avon Lovell was born in 1945 and is a history graduate of the University of Tasmania. He is a publisher with experience in investigative journalism on metropolitan newspapers in Hobart, Adelaide, and Sydney. He has owned his own suburban newspaper in Perth, Western Australia. As an editor and publisher he has produced many Australian books.

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