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Death from Above

After a much needed and restful vacation, I have returned back to the News Gathering fold with a double duty in the skies over Vancouver. Kinda nice really, flying the clear skies of summer. Now if only we could get ourselves a big story- err- big visu…

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When coffee costs a Tuppence

ABC User Submitted Photo. Stephen Shaw

It’s not infrequent to return to a story. It happens often in both politics and court stories. Updates happen, circumstances change, and events unfold. It’s this last one, events unfolding, which triggered the media’s recent revisit of a crime scene.
In late march I blogged about Desmond Moran who had been shot at whilst returning home late at night. The offender had fired a single shot through the front windscreen. Desmond, as it turned out was in the passenger seat, and his driver escaped injury. When media arrived to cover the event, Desmond emerged from the security of his home and held court with the waiting reporters and camera crews.
This week, Desmond Moran was shot dead. Moran, 60, was shot several times in the head in an apparent execution-style killing. His body still lay in the doorway of the Ascot Pasta and Deli Cafe several hours after the shooting.
In a Bizarre twist, gangland matriarch Judy Moran, sister in law to Desmond, is one of three people who have been arrested over the shooting death of Desmond “Tuppence” Moran.
Desmond ‘Tuppence’ Moran was the last man of his family alive. Melbourne’s bloody gang wars claimed his brother Lewis, nephew Jason and Jason’s half-brother Mark Cole Moran.
And who thought that so soon we would all be revisiting this story, only with a much different outcome.

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When coffee costs a Tuppence

ABC User Submitted Photo. Stephen Shaw

It’s not infrequent to return to a story. It happens often in both politics and court stories. Updates happen, circumstances change, and events unfold. It’s this last one, events unfolding, which triggered the media’s recent revisit of a crime scene.
In late march I blogged about Desmond Moran who had been shot at whilst returning home late at night. The offender had fired a single shot through the front windscreen. Desmond, as it turned out was in the passenger seat, and his driver escaped injury. When media arrived to cover the event, Desmond emerged from the security of his home and held court with the waiting reporters and camera crews.
This week, Desmond Moran was shot dead. Moran, 60, was shot several times in the head in an apparent execution-style killing. His body still lay in the doorway of the Ascot Pasta and Deli Cafe several hours after the shooting.
In a Bizarre twist, gangland matriarch Judy Moran, sister in law to Desmond, is one of three people who have been arrested over the shooting death of Desmond “Tuppence” Moran.
Desmond ‘Tuppence’ Moran was the last man of his family alive. Melbourne’s bloody gang wars claimed his brother Lewis, nephew Jason and Jason’s half-brother Mark Cole Moran.
And who thought that so soon we would all be revisiting this story, only with a much different outcome.

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ENDANGERED- LOCAL CONVENTIONAL TELEVISION

There is an old saying that originated in Asia that states “May you live in interesting times.” Some say this is a curse, others a blessing. All I know is these are indeed interesting times for Conventional Television through out North America.It is no…

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ENDANGERED- LOCAL CONVENTIONAL TELEVISION

There is an old saying that originated in Asia that states “May you live in interesting times.” Some say this is a curse, others a blessing. All I know is these are indeed interesting times for Conventional Television through out North America.It is no…

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Oh Hockey God, Why have you Foresaken me (Us)???

There was a tremor last evening, one felt through out Canuck Nation. Perhaps tremor is too small a word. More like a Category 10 Quake. The epicentre was in Chicago and it marked the post season exit of my beloved Vancouver Canucks at the hands of the …

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Oh Hockey God, Why have you Foresaken me (Us)???

There was a tremor last evening, one felt through out Canuck Nation. Perhaps tremor is too small a word. More like a Category 10 Quake. The epicentre was in Chicago and it marked the post season exit of my beloved Vancouver Canucks at the hands of the …

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