Killing Time (2010) s01e10 Episode Script
Episode 10
I don't have 50,000 lying around the place, mate.
Truth be known, I'm broke.
Robert, perhaps we can find a bail figure that's Sorry, mate.
This has to be done strictly by the book.
Gentlemen, will you give us a moment, please? OK, we need to get that money.
So let's talk about what your options are.
Try Paul Dalby.
I've given him so much work as a barrister.
Look, Fraser, we need to talk about cold assets first.
- What about the house? - Bank's taking it, mate.
Alright.
The car? It's not worth that much.
What's wrong? What's happened? Are you ill? Is someone ill? - Sheila - I was arrested.
No big deal.
But it'll probably be in the papers tomorrow, so if the press start hounding you, let me know and I'll do my best to protect you.
Arrested? What do you mean? What for? For using cocaine.
- I'm sorry? - For using cocaine.
For drugs? Oh My God, what Just the once or what? It's no worse than alcohol.
Half the legal profession use it.
- Don't be ridiculous.
- I just don't want you to worry.
They came here in the middle of the night.
It's serious.
For the love of God, Andrew.
I just don't What are they saying? Um Look, there's a slight possibility I might go to jail.
Oh, Andrew.
Well, like I said, I'm not a criminal lawyer, Fraser, but given what you've told me about all the tapes and the evidence to date, they'll probably push for six months.
- What do you mean, six months? - Suspended, Fraser.
They won't send you to jail for this.
I would think you'd want to plea.
I'm guessing that's what your lawyers will say.
The cops have got surveillance recordings going back months.
Yeah, I know.
They bugged my home, my office, my bloody car.
It's no use pretending.
They'll have everything.
You need to plea and then work with the circumstances.
What have you done, really? You've used a lot of coke.
Well, dogs have been barking on that for a long time.
You gave some stupid advice to someone importing drugs.
But you didn't profit from it.
Just Wait till your lawyers see what the tapes bring in.
But you want to watch out that there aren't any surprises.
Fraser? Are there? No.
No, I don't know.
No.
No.
Hookers, I think.
You supplied coke to them? No.
No, there'll just be lots of coke talk.
- Any big deals, small deals? - Small.
Well, what's a small deal? How much? 300, 400.
1,000, maybe.
What? $1,000? - Yeah.
- How often? Three, four times a week.
3,000 or 4,000 a week? Well, that's a lot.
But for an addict, it's still personal use, Fraser.
- Yeah.
- It's nothing.
I know magistrates who do more than that.
Have you spoken to Tim Watson-Munro yet? No.
Not since the shit hit the fan, no.
Would he give evidence against you? Your guess is as good as mine on that one.
Right, well, I don't want to say anything that contradicts your lawyers, but, uh you should beat the prosecution to the punch you get him onside.
I've got to go.
Andrew, it'll be alright.
- Yes.
- Right.
You plea.
Give 'em what they want and avoid taking the stand.
- I'll call you.
- OK, mate.
Fraser Barristers and Solicitors.
No, he's not doing any interviews.
Fraser Barristers and Solicitors.
No, he's not in at the moment.
No, I don't know when he'll be back.
Can I take a message? Yes, I'm sure he'll call you back.
Yes, Alison? - I'm going.
- OK.
I'm not coming back.
Sorry? I can't handle this.
We're a laughing-stock.
- I'm gonna sort it out, Alison.
- No.
I've got to move on.
And I wish you all the best.
Hello.
You've called Dr Tim Watson-Munro.
Please leave a message.
Mr Fraser.
Mr Fraser, will you be pleading today? Is it true you were recorded taking drugs with prostitutes? Was the cocaine for personal use, or were you also dealing? You ever use drugs in court? Were you using drugs through the Alan Bond trial? Fraser? He loves the media, doesn't he? Look, just so you know, we understand how you felt.
We were behind you.
We even understand why you let him sleep with those girls.
Not just the whores.
Without any doubt, I will present to the court that the accused are guilty of the allegations.
In the following court proceedings, I will present the court with all the objects confiscated in the raid by the police, amongst them eight presents for Ms Gorelik from her husband, bought in Benin.
I will show later their importance in the case.
I will prove to the court that they consisted of eight wooden plaques that had been filled with cocaine to be imported into Australia and the importation of cocaine, 5.
5kg weight, that being knowingly concerned in the importation of cocaine that Andrew Roderick Fraser knew that Mr Drozdoff was leaving Australia with a young woman, going ultimately Mr Drozdoff, for the importation of 5.
5kg of pure cocaine, my intention is that you have a head sentence of 13 years, with a non-parole period of 10 years.
Miss Dina Gorelik, for your part in this importation and support of Mr Drozdoff, I sentence you to eight years, with a non-parole period of five years.
Andrew Fraser.
You provided advice, encouragement and the offer of legal help if Mr Drozdoff needed it.
As such, you became knowingly concerned with the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine.
Your participation was to secure your own supply of the drug.
Your position and status as a solicitor of this state puts you in a very special relationship with the law.
To behave in the illegal, disgraceful and dishonourable way that you behaved in this case amounts to a matter of grave aggravation.
A legal practitioner must not cross that line.
I sentence you to be imprisoned for a period of seven years, with a non-parole period of five years.
Remove the prisoners.
- Sector three coming through.
- Roger that.
Mersina Halvagis was brutally stabbed in Fawkner Cemetery in 1997 while she tended her grandmother's grave.
The victim's family has expressed its frustration with the lack of progress in the investigation.
Victoria Police Commissioner Andre Haermeyer today officially announced a $1 million reward for any evidence leading to the conviction in the Halvagis murder.
Police are appealing to any member of the community with information to contact Crime Stoppers.
Well, have a think about it, mate.
Your queen's in danger, so I'd be moving her.
Not going! Not going! Not talking, no! Not talking! No! No! Not talking! No! No! No! Not talking! No! No! No! Not talking.
Well, if I was a betting man, I'd say that Homicide are getting ready to charge him.
It makes sense, Ken.
He was talking about Fawkner Cemetery and all that.
Are you sure he was talking about Halvagis? Absolutely.
He re-enacted the whole bloody thing.
Did anyone else see? No.
No, no, it happened in my cell.
Jeez, mate, that's dicey stuff.
Could you somehow let them know? You kidding? In here? If these guys found out, I'd be bloody filleted before breakfast.
OK, numbnuts, you've got a visitor.
Senior Detective Paul Scarlett, Homicide Squad.
- You know why I'm here? - No.
I think you got the wrong bloke, mate.
Well, seeing as I've come all this way, any chance of a cup of tea? I'll give you the heads-up on one of your old mates.
The Halvagis murder.
Peter Dupas.
You willing to talk? What took you so long? Well, who else saw it? No-one.
We were alone.
Have you told anyone else about this? Good.
This is around the same time he mentioned Fawkner, was it? Mmm.
Yeah, around then.
You know there's a $1 million reward, don't you? Oh, please.
Look, just you being here, me talking to you, that's putting my life at risk, OK? - Well, we appreciate that.
- I'm not after appreciation.
I want out of here, alright? And all of this, that that means nothing unless we make a deal.
Alright.
What are you offering? What am I offering? I'm giving you his head on a plate.
But will you stand up in court and repeat it under oath? If I stand up in court while I'm in here, I'm a dead man.
Unless you can get me out of here, never met.
- That might be difficult.
- Then stop wasting my time.
Hey, list Alright, sit down, sit down.
Come on.
I'm on your side, alright? You've got a daughter, don't you? - Yeah, you know I have.
- Once, twice a week, we get a phone call from the Halvagis family, a mother and father just like you.
Their daughter was murdered, and they can't get any rest, and you are their best chance of putting it behind them.
And between you and me, the brass are fed up with being hassled by the minister, who's fed up with being hassled by the Greek community.
You know how many Greeks there are in Melbourne.
They all vote, apparently.
Mmm.
Yeah, OK, look, the family Family, I feel sorry for.
Bloody awful.
The minister and commissioner, what have they ever done for me? Alright, I'll talk to the boss.
I'll see what we can offer.
Will you write a statement in the meantime saying what you do know? It'd help speed things up.
OK.
But if I get wind that this has been talked about, I'm walking, you understand? Yeah.
Hey, Pete.
How'd it go, mate? Not good? So, uh What did they ask you about, mate? No comment.
Everything asked.
Um They ask you anything about Mersina? No comment.
No comment.
They play you.
You say one thing and they OK, mate, well, why why are they asking you You say anything to them about me? No, mate.
The cops don't talk to me, mate.
- You don't talk about me.
- No.
No, I don't talk.
- Where are the kids, love? - They're at my sister's.
Did you tell Olivia you were getting out of jail? No.
- Are you getting out of jail? - No.
- Then why'd you tell her? She told everyone at school you'd be there next birthday.
- Keep it down, darling.
Keep - She's 10 years old, Fraser.
What are you doing? Just giving her a little bit of hope, OK? Everyone needs a bit of Um No, there's stuff happening in here.
I just can't discuss it, OK? Are you getting out? So how's Lachy, alright? - When? - Denise, how's Lach? Hey? Fraser, I don't want to live with you again.
- Together.
- What? When you get out we're not gonna be together.
- Denise, what are you - I know I know it's cruel telling you here, but I need you to know that now.
Please.
It's been such a long time since I've been me.
Everything just became about you.
Everything.
And I lost myself.
And now I'm finding me again, and I I can't go back to that, Andrew.
I can't be near you now, Andrew, I can't.
Darling, don't OK, don't lose it, darling.
If you lose it, I'm gonna lose it, so Hey.
We're so close, darling.
We are so bloody close.
OK? You have to let me go, Andrew.
You have to let me go.
Are you deadset certain you're not getting an early release? Mmm.
I wish, mate.
Oh, this is shit! Hey, we're not pigs.
This is a bloody disgrace! You know, we're supposed to be treated like humans, not animals.
I'm gonna make a complaint to the warden.
Terrific! He loves getting those.
Righto.
Fraser to station C.
Fraser to station C.
Visitor.
It's done.
You'll be released soon.
When? Mate, it's gonna be soon, I promise you.
I'm not gonna give evidence unless I am out of here.
If the guys in here think I've turned dog, they are going to fuckin' murder me.
Murder me.
You understand? My family needs me, alright? Sector six to sector seven.
Lockdown in 10 minutes.
Lockdown in 10 minutes.
You dog! Mongrel dog! It's a 2-bedroom.
OK, uh The phone's been connected.
Local calls are free for the first month, but it's your responsibility to pay for any bills after that.
Um Non-family visitors are allowed between 10am and 8pm, and application for special leave to have non-family visitors stay overnight must be lodged and cleared with either myself or the reporting duty officer.
Ah, neither yourself nor any visitor may consume alcohol or any illegal substances on this property.
To do so will result in immediate eviction and notification of the Parole Board.
I'll leave the keys here for you.
There's a bit of information on the table if you need it.
Good luck.
- You've got my number.
- Yes.
Thank you.
Hello.
You've called Lachy, Olivia and Denise.
We're not able to take your call right now, so please leave us a message.
Well, listen, if we can just put the meeting back until we discuss it all, that'd be good.
OK, good.
'Bye.
- Hi.
- Hello.
Come in.
Sorry I couldn't come and pick you up.
I only just got your phone message.
Don't worry about it.
All done in a bit of a hurry.
It was secret squirrel-type stuff.
I bloody well made it.
Not for me.
Oh, come on, help me celebrate.
I've finally got my life back.
I've got a little flat, and I'm seeing a bloke about a job on Tuesday.
Good.
Tell you what.
Denise, I've dreamt about this day so many bloody times.
Listen, I can't stay.
I've gotta get to work.
Oh, come on.
Come on, just a glass.
Just a glass.
Help me celebrate.
I can't.
OK, um When can I see the kids? Uh Let's have a look.
OK, this week They've got parties all day Saturday.
What about Sunday? Sunday? But it's only Thursday.
Frase, they're gonna be thrilled to see you, but They're they're young adults now, you know.
They're little people.
Look You have a glass.
I just I just can't join you.
Well, let's save it for another time.
Hello? - Andrew Fraser? - Yes.
You go to court and you're fuckin' dead.
It even says I live in St Kilda! Cops! Unbelievable.
- There are some people who - I know.
Walsh Street, mate.
You keep telling me over and over and over.
You're like a fuckin' broken record.
We are in damage control now.
- You're gonna have to leave.
- And, what, where? Some little hole with a weekend cop on the door? No, thanks.
- Fraser - I've just spent five years inside, mate, with a screw looking over my shoulder every minute of the day.
I don't want to go back to that, thanks, ever.
Look, I can only apologise.
Is everything else alright? Yeah.
Yeah.
Terrific.
Goodnight, Livvie.
'Night.
Your breath's not particularly minty.
Are you sure you brushed? - Yep.
- Didn't just let the water run? I know someone else who used to do that.
Hmm? Lachy? Oh, poo! You smell like garlic.
We didn't even have garlic.
- I brushed them.
- Did you? Yes.
OK.
Oh, look at you two in your sleeping bags.
Hey, what about we go camping sometime? - Cool.
- Yeah? Yeah.
You know, I used to dream about this.
I love you both very much.
You know that, don't you? Yep.
OK.
First one up in the morning makes breakfast for the others? - What do you think? - Sounds good.
- Sounds good too.
- OK.
Righto.
Well, sleep well, and I'll see you in the morning, OK? - Dad, what's happening? - Lachy, get back inside, mate.
- Just go back to your room.
- What's happening? Who is that? - Dad! - Hey, hey, hey.
- Yeah, it's OK.
- Dad! - Livvie, just get down, alright? - Dad, what's happening? - It's OK.
Stay with Olivia, OK? - Dad, who is that? Stay there and don't move, alright? Yeah, that's it! Go on, run away! Fuck off! Yeah, where are you, you cowards? Where's your faces? Go on! Gutless wonders! Yeah, Denise.
Do you want to just jump in the car? I'll be there in a second.
You couldn't just get out of jail and be quiet, could you? Just shut up for once in your life? I'm trying to put a serial killer behind bars, OK? - He's already behind bars.
- OK.
He's never gonna be released.
This is not about some murder.
This is about you again wanting everybody to look at you.
Yeah, OK.
I'm telling the truth.
OK? I don't doubt that you're telling the truth.
Oh, that's a relief.
Except when it comes to you.
You're the worst kind of liar.
You're a man that just keeps lying to himself.
Peter Dupas? You're an idiot, Andrew.
Why? He's a serial killer.
I'm helping to convict him.
How? I'm a key witness, Sally.
- To what? - Andrew? - Oh, Jesus! My whole life, you're on my back about defending criminals.
Now that I'm helping to send a murderer down, you're acting like I've killed someone myself.
It's dangerous, Andrew.
I was promised that my name was gonna be suppressed.
Did he really tell you those things? - Thanks very much.
- You've only just got out.
Oh, for God's sake, Andrew! Why can't you just get a job and get on with it? Well, I've got a job lined up, Mum.
You've put your family in danger.
Andrew, this is your chance to start again.
Do not throw it away! Andrew Fraser.
What is your full name? Andrew Roderick Fraser.
Please raise the Bible in your right hand and say after me.
"I swear by Almighty God" I swear by Almighty God ".
.
that the evidence I shall give in this case" that the evidence I shall give in this case shall be the truth, the whole truth.
And nothing but the truth.
Thank you.
Please replace the Bible.
Mr Fraser.
I'm confused.
I'm sorry? I'm confused.
You call Mr Dupas the most dangerous person you've ever met, and yet when you discover an abandoned knife in the prison yard, you immediately draw it to his attention as he stands there beside you.
Yes, that's right.
The most dangerous person, the most unpredictable person you've ever met in your life, who's killed people, stabbed people.
Yes.
And then he says "Mersina, Mersina"? Is that right? Yes, that's right.
I put it to you it's a fiction.
No.
Much of what you say in your statement's all about Andrew Fraser, isn't it? Uh, could you please explain that? To put you on the front pages of the newspapers, isn't it? - No.
- And it's designed in some way to redeem you in the eyes of many in the community.
- Isn't it? - No.
And then what did he say? Well, he then reiterated that there was no forensic evidence at Fawkner, which is my understanding of where the murder took place.
He then, um he then did a pantomime, I suppose you'd call it, of, uh, what he did to her.
- A pantomime? - Yes.
Would you be willing to step down from the box and show us this pantomime, Mr Fraser? Yes.
And you could tell he was getting agitated because he began to fidget a little bit.
He then started just rocking back and forth.
And you could tell he was getting more agitated because he clasped his hands together, like that, quite tightly, clamped them between his legs, and kept rocking, like this.
Then all of a sudden, he jumped up, he pointed to the intercom at the end of the cell wall and went like this, to indicate to be quiet.
He then knelt down, this, but not all the way down, but to indicate that somebody was kneeling in front of him.
He then went behind where that person supposedly was and began miming stabbing like that.
He stood up and sat down again on the bed as if nothing had happened.
I suggest that you've been caught out in yet another lie because Mr Dupas did not do any pantomime for you showing how he killed Miss Halvagis.
Uh, you're making a statement.
I suggest your reason for being here was initially to get out of jail and that this moment is designed to ensure you get the million dollars.
- Isn't it? - No.
No, I re-enacted exactly what took place.
No further questions, Your Honour.
Mr Foreman, how say you on the charge that on 1 November 1997 at Fawkner Cemetery, Peter Norris Dupas did murder Mersina Halvagis? - Guilty, as charged.
- Yes! For the murder of Mersina Halvagis, I sentence you to life imprisonment.
This sentence to be served concurrent with your existing two life sentences.
I refuse to set any minimum term.
Life means life.
Remove the prisoner.
What happens with the reward? Once the conviction's finalised, it should be pretty straightforward.
They look at the evidence you've given and the other witnesses and they just divide it.
Tell you, mate, I could certainly use it.
I hope you're not desperate, mate.
Got a long way to go yet.
Eh? You can be fairly certain Dupas's lawyers will appeal.
- Against all that evidence? - Yeah, of course.
That's what you would have done, right? People wanting to kill me, what my family's been putting An appeal will take bloody years, mate.
Yeah, it will.
It's gonna be very hard on the victim's parents.
Yeah, the kids ready? Ah, they're not here.
They're at my mum's.
We're supposed to be going to Fraser.
They just need a little bit of space.
They haven't really seen you in the past five years and it's freaking them out a little bit.
And then the other night And don't tell them that I'm telling you this.
They would die if they knew.
They love you.
They just - I just thought if we, um - Just a little bit of time.
OK.
How long, do you reckon? I don't know.
We'll just have to wait and see.
They'll let us know.
Truth be known, I'm broke.
Robert, perhaps we can find a bail figure that's Sorry, mate.
This has to be done strictly by the book.
Gentlemen, will you give us a moment, please? OK, we need to get that money.
So let's talk about what your options are.
Try Paul Dalby.
I've given him so much work as a barrister.
Look, Fraser, we need to talk about cold assets first.
- What about the house? - Bank's taking it, mate.
Alright.
The car? It's not worth that much.
What's wrong? What's happened? Are you ill? Is someone ill? - Sheila - I was arrested.
No big deal.
But it'll probably be in the papers tomorrow, so if the press start hounding you, let me know and I'll do my best to protect you.
Arrested? What do you mean? What for? For using cocaine.
- I'm sorry? - For using cocaine.
For drugs? Oh My God, what Just the once or what? It's no worse than alcohol.
Half the legal profession use it.
- Don't be ridiculous.
- I just don't want you to worry.
They came here in the middle of the night.
It's serious.
For the love of God, Andrew.
I just don't What are they saying? Um Look, there's a slight possibility I might go to jail.
Oh, Andrew.
Well, like I said, I'm not a criminal lawyer, Fraser, but given what you've told me about all the tapes and the evidence to date, they'll probably push for six months.
- What do you mean, six months? - Suspended, Fraser.
They won't send you to jail for this.
I would think you'd want to plea.
I'm guessing that's what your lawyers will say.
The cops have got surveillance recordings going back months.
Yeah, I know.
They bugged my home, my office, my bloody car.
It's no use pretending.
They'll have everything.
You need to plea and then work with the circumstances.
What have you done, really? You've used a lot of coke.
Well, dogs have been barking on that for a long time.
You gave some stupid advice to someone importing drugs.
But you didn't profit from it.
Just Wait till your lawyers see what the tapes bring in.
But you want to watch out that there aren't any surprises.
Fraser? Are there? No.
No, I don't know.
No.
No.
Hookers, I think.
You supplied coke to them? No.
No, there'll just be lots of coke talk.
- Any big deals, small deals? - Small.
Well, what's a small deal? How much? 300, 400.
1,000, maybe.
What? $1,000? - Yeah.
- How often? Three, four times a week.
3,000 or 4,000 a week? Well, that's a lot.
But for an addict, it's still personal use, Fraser.
- Yeah.
- It's nothing.
I know magistrates who do more than that.
Have you spoken to Tim Watson-Munro yet? No.
Not since the shit hit the fan, no.
Would he give evidence against you? Your guess is as good as mine on that one.
Right, well, I don't want to say anything that contradicts your lawyers, but, uh you should beat the prosecution to the punch you get him onside.
I've got to go.
Andrew, it'll be alright.
- Yes.
- Right.
You plea.
Give 'em what they want and avoid taking the stand.
- I'll call you.
- OK, mate.
Fraser Barristers and Solicitors.
No, he's not doing any interviews.
Fraser Barristers and Solicitors.
No, he's not in at the moment.
No, I don't know when he'll be back.
Can I take a message? Yes, I'm sure he'll call you back.
Yes, Alison? - I'm going.
- OK.
I'm not coming back.
Sorry? I can't handle this.
We're a laughing-stock.
- I'm gonna sort it out, Alison.
- No.
I've got to move on.
And I wish you all the best.
Hello.
You've called Dr Tim Watson-Munro.
Please leave a message.
Mr Fraser.
Mr Fraser, will you be pleading today? Is it true you were recorded taking drugs with prostitutes? Was the cocaine for personal use, or were you also dealing? You ever use drugs in court? Were you using drugs through the Alan Bond trial? Fraser? He loves the media, doesn't he? Look, just so you know, we understand how you felt.
We were behind you.
We even understand why you let him sleep with those girls.
Not just the whores.
Without any doubt, I will present to the court that the accused are guilty of the allegations.
In the following court proceedings, I will present the court with all the objects confiscated in the raid by the police, amongst them eight presents for Ms Gorelik from her husband, bought in Benin.
I will show later their importance in the case.
I will prove to the court that they consisted of eight wooden plaques that had been filled with cocaine to be imported into Australia and the importation of cocaine, 5.
5kg weight, that being knowingly concerned in the importation of cocaine that Andrew Roderick Fraser knew that Mr Drozdoff was leaving Australia with a young woman, going ultimately Mr Drozdoff, for the importation of 5.
5kg of pure cocaine, my intention is that you have a head sentence of 13 years, with a non-parole period of 10 years.
Miss Dina Gorelik, for your part in this importation and support of Mr Drozdoff, I sentence you to eight years, with a non-parole period of five years.
Andrew Fraser.
You provided advice, encouragement and the offer of legal help if Mr Drozdoff needed it.
As such, you became knowingly concerned with the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine.
Your participation was to secure your own supply of the drug.
Your position and status as a solicitor of this state puts you in a very special relationship with the law.
To behave in the illegal, disgraceful and dishonourable way that you behaved in this case amounts to a matter of grave aggravation.
A legal practitioner must not cross that line.
I sentence you to be imprisoned for a period of seven years, with a non-parole period of five years.
Remove the prisoners.
- Sector three coming through.
- Roger that.
Mersina Halvagis was brutally stabbed in Fawkner Cemetery in 1997 while she tended her grandmother's grave.
The victim's family has expressed its frustration with the lack of progress in the investigation.
Victoria Police Commissioner Andre Haermeyer today officially announced a $1 million reward for any evidence leading to the conviction in the Halvagis murder.
Police are appealing to any member of the community with information to contact Crime Stoppers.
Well, have a think about it, mate.
Your queen's in danger, so I'd be moving her.
Not going! Not going! Not talking, no! Not talking! No! No! Not talking! No! No! No! Not talking! No! No! No! Not talking.
Well, if I was a betting man, I'd say that Homicide are getting ready to charge him.
It makes sense, Ken.
He was talking about Fawkner Cemetery and all that.
Are you sure he was talking about Halvagis? Absolutely.
He re-enacted the whole bloody thing.
Did anyone else see? No.
No, no, it happened in my cell.
Jeez, mate, that's dicey stuff.
Could you somehow let them know? You kidding? In here? If these guys found out, I'd be bloody filleted before breakfast.
OK, numbnuts, you've got a visitor.
Senior Detective Paul Scarlett, Homicide Squad.
- You know why I'm here? - No.
I think you got the wrong bloke, mate.
Well, seeing as I've come all this way, any chance of a cup of tea? I'll give you the heads-up on one of your old mates.
The Halvagis murder.
Peter Dupas.
You willing to talk? What took you so long? Well, who else saw it? No-one.
We were alone.
Have you told anyone else about this? Good.
This is around the same time he mentioned Fawkner, was it? Mmm.
Yeah, around then.
You know there's a $1 million reward, don't you? Oh, please.
Look, just you being here, me talking to you, that's putting my life at risk, OK? - Well, we appreciate that.
- I'm not after appreciation.
I want out of here, alright? And all of this, that that means nothing unless we make a deal.
Alright.
What are you offering? What am I offering? I'm giving you his head on a plate.
But will you stand up in court and repeat it under oath? If I stand up in court while I'm in here, I'm a dead man.
Unless you can get me out of here, never met.
- That might be difficult.
- Then stop wasting my time.
Hey, list Alright, sit down, sit down.
Come on.
I'm on your side, alright? You've got a daughter, don't you? - Yeah, you know I have.
- Once, twice a week, we get a phone call from the Halvagis family, a mother and father just like you.
Their daughter was murdered, and they can't get any rest, and you are their best chance of putting it behind them.
And between you and me, the brass are fed up with being hassled by the minister, who's fed up with being hassled by the Greek community.
You know how many Greeks there are in Melbourne.
They all vote, apparently.
Mmm.
Yeah, OK, look, the family Family, I feel sorry for.
Bloody awful.
The minister and commissioner, what have they ever done for me? Alright, I'll talk to the boss.
I'll see what we can offer.
Will you write a statement in the meantime saying what you do know? It'd help speed things up.
OK.
But if I get wind that this has been talked about, I'm walking, you understand? Yeah.
Hey, Pete.
How'd it go, mate? Not good? So, uh What did they ask you about, mate? No comment.
Everything asked.
Um They ask you anything about Mersina? No comment.
No comment.
They play you.
You say one thing and they OK, mate, well, why why are they asking you You say anything to them about me? No, mate.
The cops don't talk to me, mate.
- You don't talk about me.
- No.
No, I don't talk.
- Where are the kids, love? - They're at my sister's.
Did you tell Olivia you were getting out of jail? No.
- Are you getting out of jail? - No.
- Then why'd you tell her? She told everyone at school you'd be there next birthday.
- Keep it down, darling.
Keep - She's 10 years old, Fraser.
What are you doing? Just giving her a little bit of hope, OK? Everyone needs a bit of Um No, there's stuff happening in here.
I just can't discuss it, OK? Are you getting out? So how's Lachy, alright? - When? - Denise, how's Lach? Hey? Fraser, I don't want to live with you again.
- Together.
- What? When you get out we're not gonna be together.
- Denise, what are you - I know I know it's cruel telling you here, but I need you to know that now.
Please.
It's been such a long time since I've been me.
Everything just became about you.
Everything.
And I lost myself.
And now I'm finding me again, and I I can't go back to that, Andrew.
I can't be near you now, Andrew, I can't.
Darling, don't OK, don't lose it, darling.
If you lose it, I'm gonna lose it, so Hey.
We're so close, darling.
We are so bloody close.
OK? You have to let me go, Andrew.
You have to let me go.
Are you deadset certain you're not getting an early release? Mmm.
I wish, mate.
Oh, this is shit! Hey, we're not pigs.
This is a bloody disgrace! You know, we're supposed to be treated like humans, not animals.
I'm gonna make a complaint to the warden.
Terrific! He loves getting those.
Righto.
Fraser to station C.
Fraser to station C.
Visitor.
It's done.
You'll be released soon.
When? Mate, it's gonna be soon, I promise you.
I'm not gonna give evidence unless I am out of here.
If the guys in here think I've turned dog, they are going to fuckin' murder me.
Murder me.
You understand? My family needs me, alright? Sector six to sector seven.
Lockdown in 10 minutes.
Lockdown in 10 minutes.
You dog! Mongrel dog! It's a 2-bedroom.
OK, uh The phone's been connected.
Local calls are free for the first month, but it's your responsibility to pay for any bills after that.
Um Non-family visitors are allowed between 10am and 8pm, and application for special leave to have non-family visitors stay overnight must be lodged and cleared with either myself or the reporting duty officer.
Ah, neither yourself nor any visitor may consume alcohol or any illegal substances on this property.
To do so will result in immediate eviction and notification of the Parole Board.
I'll leave the keys here for you.
There's a bit of information on the table if you need it.
Good luck.
- You've got my number.
- Yes.
Thank you.
Hello.
You've called Lachy, Olivia and Denise.
We're not able to take your call right now, so please leave us a message.
Well, listen, if we can just put the meeting back until we discuss it all, that'd be good.
OK, good.
'Bye.
- Hi.
- Hello.
Come in.
Sorry I couldn't come and pick you up.
I only just got your phone message.
Don't worry about it.
All done in a bit of a hurry.
It was secret squirrel-type stuff.
I bloody well made it.
Not for me.
Oh, come on, help me celebrate.
I've finally got my life back.
I've got a little flat, and I'm seeing a bloke about a job on Tuesday.
Good.
Tell you what.
Denise, I've dreamt about this day so many bloody times.
Listen, I can't stay.
I've gotta get to work.
Oh, come on.
Come on, just a glass.
Just a glass.
Help me celebrate.
I can't.
OK, um When can I see the kids? Uh Let's have a look.
OK, this week They've got parties all day Saturday.
What about Sunday? Sunday? But it's only Thursday.
Frase, they're gonna be thrilled to see you, but They're they're young adults now, you know.
They're little people.
Look You have a glass.
I just I just can't join you.
Well, let's save it for another time.
Hello? - Andrew Fraser? - Yes.
You go to court and you're fuckin' dead.
It even says I live in St Kilda! Cops! Unbelievable.
- There are some people who - I know.
Walsh Street, mate.
You keep telling me over and over and over.
You're like a fuckin' broken record.
We are in damage control now.
- You're gonna have to leave.
- And, what, where? Some little hole with a weekend cop on the door? No, thanks.
- Fraser - I've just spent five years inside, mate, with a screw looking over my shoulder every minute of the day.
I don't want to go back to that, thanks, ever.
Look, I can only apologise.
Is everything else alright? Yeah.
Yeah.
Terrific.
Goodnight, Livvie.
'Night.
Your breath's not particularly minty.
Are you sure you brushed? - Yep.
- Didn't just let the water run? I know someone else who used to do that.
Hmm? Lachy? Oh, poo! You smell like garlic.
We didn't even have garlic.
- I brushed them.
- Did you? Yes.
OK.
Oh, look at you two in your sleeping bags.
Hey, what about we go camping sometime? - Cool.
- Yeah? Yeah.
You know, I used to dream about this.
I love you both very much.
You know that, don't you? Yep.
OK.
First one up in the morning makes breakfast for the others? - What do you think? - Sounds good.
- Sounds good too.
- OK.
Righto.
Well, sleep well, and I'll see you in the morning, OK? - Dad, what's happening? - Lachy, get back inside, mate.
- Just go back to your room.
- What's happening? Who is that? - Dad! - Hey, hey, hey.
- Yeah, it's OK.
- Dad! - Livvie, just get down, alright? - Dad, what's happening? - It's OK.
Stay with Olivia, OK? - Dad, who is that? Stay there and don't move, alright? Yeah, that's it! Go on, run away! Fuck off! Yeah, where are you, you cowards? Where's your faces? Go on! Gutless wonders! Yeah, Denise.
Do you want to just jump in the car? I'll be there in a second.
You couldn't just get out of jail and be quiet, could you? Just shut up for once in your life? I'm trying to put a serial killer behind bars, OK? - He's already behind bars.
- OK.
He's never gonna be released.
This is not about some murder.
This is about you again wanting everybody to look at you.
Yeah, OK.
I'm telling the truth.
OK? I don't doubt that you're telling the truth.
Oh, that's a relief.
Except when it comes to you.
You're the worst kind of liar.
You're a man that just keeps lying to himself.
Peter Dupas? You're an idiot, Andrew.
Why? He's a serial killer.
I'm helping to convict him.
How? I'm a key witness, Sally.
- To what? - Andrew? - Oh, Jesus! My whole life, you're on my back about defending criminals.
Now that I'm helping to send a murderer down, you're acting like I've killed someone myself.
It's dangerous, Andrew.
I was promised that my name was gonna be suppressed.
Did he really tell you those things? - Thanks very much.
- You've only just got out.
Oh, for God's sake, Andrew! Why can't you just get a job and get on with it? Well, I've got a job lined up, Mum.
You've put your family in danger.
Andrew, this is your chance to start again.
Do not throw it away! Andrew Fraser.
What is your full name? Andrew Roderick Fraser.
Please raise the Bible in your right hand and say after me.
"I swear by Almighty God" I swear by Almighty God ".
.
that the evidence I shall give in this case" that the evidence I shall give in this case shall be the truth, the whole truth.
And nothing but the truth.
Thank you.
Please replace the Bible.
Mr Fraser.
I'm confused.
I'm sorry? I'm confused.
You call Mr Dupas the most dangerous person you've ever met, and yet when you discover an abandoned knife in the prison yard, you immediately draw it to his attention as he stands there beside you.
Yes, that's right.
The most dangerous person, the most unpredictable person you've ever met in your life, who's killed people, stabbed people.
Yes.
And then he says "Mersina, Mersina"? Is that right? Yes, that's right.
I put it to you it's a fiction.
No.
Much of what you say in your statement's all about Andrew Fraser, isn't it? Uh, could you please explain that? To put you on the front pages of the newspapers, isn't it? - No.
- And it's designed in some way to redeem you in the eyes of many in the community.
- Isn't it? - No.
And then what did he say? Well, he then reiterated that there was no forensic evidence at Fawkner, which is my understanding of where the murder took place.
He then, um he then did a pantomime, I suppose you'd call it, of, uh, what he did to her.
- A pantomime? - Yes.
Would you be willing to step down from the box and show us this pantomime, Mr Fraser? Yes.
And you could tell he was getting agitated because he began to fidget a little bit.
He then started just rocking back and forth.
And you could tell he was getting more agitated because he clasped his hands together, like that, quite tightly, clamped them between his legs, and kept rocking, like this.
Then all of a sudden, he jumped up, he pointed to the intercom at the end of the cell wall and went like this, to indicate to be quiet.
He then knelt down, this, but not all the way down, but to indicate that somebody was kneeling in front of him.
He then went behind where that person supposedly was and began miming stabbing like that.
He stood up and sat down again on the bed as if nothing had happened.
I suggest that you've been caught out in yet another lie because Mr Dupas did not do any pantomime for you showing how he killed Miss Halvagis.
Uh, you're making a statement.
I suggest your reason for being here was initially to get out of jail and that this moment is designed to ensure you get the million dollars.
- Isn't it? - No.
No, I re-enacted exactly what took place.
No further questions, Your Honour.
Mr Foreman, how say you on the charge that on 1 November 1997 at Fawkner Cemetery, Peter Norris Dupas did murder Mersina Halvagis? - Guilty, as charged.
- Yes! For the murder of Mersina Halvagis, I sentence you to life imprisonment.
This sentence to be served concurrent with your existing two life sentences.
I refuse to set any minimum term.
Life means life.
Remove the prisoner.
What happens with the reward? Once the conviction's finalised, it should be pretty straightforward.
They look at the evidence you've given and the other witnesses and they just divide it.
Tell you, mate, I could certainly use it.
I hope you're not desperate, mate.
Got a long way to go yet.
Eh? You can be fairly certain Dupas's lawyers will appeal.
- Against all that evidence? - Yeah, of course.
That's what you would have done, right? People wanting to kill me, what my family's been putting An appeal will take bloody years, mate.
Yeah, it will.
It's gonna be very hard on the victim's parents.
Yeah, the kids ready? Ah, they're not here.
They're at my mum's.
We're supposed to be going to Fraser.
They just need a little bit of space.
They haven't really seen you in the past five years and it's freaking them out a little bit.
And then the other night And don't tell them that I'm telling you this.
They would die if they knew.
They love you.
They just - I just thought if we, um - Just a little bit of time.
OK.
How long, do you reckon? I don't know.
We'll just have to wait and see.
They'll let us know.