In March 1993, career criminals Archie Butterly and Peter Gibb blasted their way out of the Melbourne Remand Centre using smuggled explosives, with the help of prison officer Heather Parker, who had become romantically involved with Gibb. Six days later beside the Goulburn River in Victoria’s high country. Gibb and Parker were captured. Butterly was found dead, with a single bullet wound to his head. For Scott Bell, Butterly’s death was a massive relief. In 1992, before the jail break, Butterly took this average suburban bloke hostage. For the first time, Scott recounts that terrifying experience and the aftermath that he still deals with today.
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