Death was never far behind Kevin Knowles. It was there when he and his partner, Amanda Bourke, spent the day drinking with Stephen Johnston in 2016. Johnston was savagely beaten at his home in Victoria’s south-west and left with 101 separate injuries; he died in hospital. Knowles was the main suspect.
Death was close again when Bourke drowned while swimming with Knowles at a rugged and isolated beach two years later. With her died almost any chance of Knowles being prosecuted for Johnston’s death.
But death caught up with Knowles on 22 July, when he was shot and run over on a single-lane country road near Kirkstall, north-west of Warrnambool. The suspected gunman, who is also thought to have killed another man found dead with Knowles, drove home and turned the gun on himself.
