The other senseless death that haunts Hutchence cop

Summary: Mark "Scarface" Smith recalls a career of extremes, from colourful characters to senseless loss. There's the story of Chris Woods, who pretended to be a world-beating jockey and took punters for millions with his race-fixing scam, but came unstuck when he tried his con on a fellow crim. And there's one of the saddest cases he dealt with - the killing of trucker Bob Knight, a man simply doing his job who was hit by a stray bullet as "Saturday night gangsters" engaged in a reckless shootout.  <br><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>