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Crimes That Shook Australia!

WALSH STREET MURDERS

Former Victorian Police Detective Inspector John Noonan admits not a day goes by without him recalling the horror of October 12, 1988.

As he arrived in the early hours of the morning at Walsh Street in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra, John found the dead bodies of two young police constables, Damian Eyre, 20, and Steven Tynan, 22, who had been ambushed in a hail of bullets by a criminal gang.

The two constables had been called out to investigate an abandoned stolen car, but it was a trap – the car was a revenge tactic set up for the shooting death by police the day before of Graeme Jensen.

“I will never forget

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