“Kicking him out fails the pub test: it’s not right, it’s un-Australian,” lawyer Paul McGirr says of his client Darko Desic. “Dougie” – as the fugitive, turned handyman, turned Sydney local identity is known – has now applied for a visa so he can stay in Australia, and live freely, when he is released from prison later this month.
Desic, 65, made global headlines last year when he handed himself into New South Wales police after 29 years at large, telling officers at the Dee Why station: “I believe you’ve been looking for me.”
