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THERE'S A YELLOWING clipping in my scrapbook showing a scene that could be straight out of a film: a gleaming black coffin, covered in red roses, carried by men in sharp suits and sunglasses, coming out of a Catholic church in Kew; a blonde crime clan matriarch in black, old men with craggy, wary faces, and muscled, moustachioed henchmen in ponytails, mingling in the mourning crowd with the elite of Melbourne society. Two worlds mourn mob patriarch, reads the headline. It's a piece about the funeral of the murdered underworld figure Graham Kinniburgh, known as "The Munster", in December 2003.
Kinniburgh, then the latest victim of the extraordinary gangland war ...