SHADOW OF SHAME - MAFIA MURDER OF DONALD MACKAY - 1988

How the Mafia got away with the Murder of Donald Mackay.

Donald Bruce Mackay, the Griffith anti-drugs campaigner, disappeared without trace from the carpark of the Griffith Hotel in July 1977.

Mackay had been a secret informant for police action against illicit marijuana growing in the Riverina area.  His 'disappearance" has become Australia's first political assassination.  This book is the shocking story of how the mafia planned and executed his murder.  Throughout a shameful decade that followed, some people, even at senior levels of politics and law enforcement, connoved to cover-up this mafia murder.

Crime journalist Bob Bottom traces the birth and growth of the mafia in Griffith, known to police as a centre for serious crime as early as the 1930s.  By the 1970s, when Mackay first became concerned about illicit drug activities in his town, those controlling organised crime had become far more sophisticated.  Bribery, corruption and pay-offs had become commonplace.  Serious questions about NSW police investigations into Australia's most notorious murder precipitated a special commission of inquiry nine years later.  Bottom also details how drug boss Bob Trimbole lived safely in Spain despite international police knowledge of his whereabouts and of the failure of Australian authorities to bring him to justice.

Here for the first time is the full, inside story of the murder of Don Mackay and of the continued harrassment of his wife Barbara and family.  It will shock and outrage all honest Australians.

Ths 226 page softcover is illustrated with black and white photographs.  The cover has some creases and edgewear and the book is slightly askew.   There is browning and marks to page edges and some light browning to edges of page face due to age.  This is however still a good, tight, reading copy and an interesting read. 

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