• Blood on the steps of Flinders St: The brave men who chased a police killer

  • Jul 4 2023
  • Length: 31 mins
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Blood on the steps of Flinders St: The brave men who chased a police killer

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  • Keith Pickering was just 19 and a young cop when he was on point duty outside Flinders Street Station in January 1974. He heard a vendor yell out and saw a man crouching with a bloodied carving knife.

    The mentally disturbed man, James Belsey, had just fatally cut the throat of Constable Norm Curson on the steps of the station. Pickering and another young cop Trevor Pollock followed him into the Young and Jacksons Hotel and although unarmed, managed to arrest him and take him to the nearby police station.

    Their bravery has never been recognised. 

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