Australia's longest criminal trial almost at an end
Australia’s longest-running terrorism saga is set to finally end — 44 years, 1 month and 7 days after it began.
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Australia’s longest-running terrorism saga is set to finally end — 44 years, 1 month and 7 days after it began.
The Croatian Six spent more than a decade in jail over a bomb plot. Now they want to clear their names By Joey Watson for The History Listen © Provided by ABC NEWS Virko Virkez, then aged 28, was placed under arrest after making a confession to police. (ABC: Four Corners) On a hot February night in 1979, in the NSW coal mining town of Lithgow, a Croatian man named Vico Virkez walked into the police station with an alarming tip-off. He said he was part of a conspiracy. That night, he and a network of other Croatian migrants were to set off bombs throughout Sydney.