Until (at least) September 3, 2009, a man calling himself Michael McGurk walked among us on the streets of Sydney. On that day, we are told, he was shot in the head and killed.
According to media reports since, his favourite pastimes included (in no particular order) beating people up who owed him money; beating people up who owed other people money; paying people to beat up other people and smash their cars with sledgehammers; throwing petrol bombs at people’s houses; attempting to blackmail people who didn’t owe him money (but whom, he felt strongly, should give him some anyway); mysteriously involving himself in large and very suspect property developments; stealing the retirement funds of dozens of people and finally, we are told, kidnapping and torturing pensioners. He is even said to have tried a suit on in a large department store and to have walked out wearing it, having only handed over half of the sale price. The man was hard!
He has been described variously as a “standover man”, a “loan shark” and a “great dad”. One business associate claims to have seen him drink a litre of diesel for breakfast.
In a stunning new development, police are this week following fresh information which suggests the man calling himself McGurk may in fact still be alive, and is actually the legendary underworld figure Keyser Söze – said to be of Turkish origin, and known to have similar pastimes as “McGurk”.
One striking similarity between McGurk and Söze is their ability to carry out high-level organised crime for years without ever being seriously investigated by police. Just as was said about Söze in a well-known movie depiction, McGurk seemed to be “protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness Himself”...(possibly Graham Richardson?)
And if it all seems a bit too far fetched for you, just remember... “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.”
And like that, poof...he's gone...
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