A moustachioed bloke in a brown leather jacket leans on a cane and puffs a cigarette beside a no smoking sign in the doorway of a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane.
The nation’s major television crews are inside jostling to interview this frail old fellow, a serial prison escaper who probably goes by a pseudonym and lives off grid somewhere in south-east Queensland. He is here for the announcement of a documentary on his life, but looks as worn out as the belt barely holding up his black jeans.
