standover man

"Do you know what a standover man is?"

While they think he's cleaning carpets, his real profession is as an underworld enforcer, a brutal standover man.

Eddy is a fisherman by day, but by night he works as a standover man, literally a toe-cutter.

The standover man is a loner, a predator who preys on other, more prosperous criminals, often extremely dangerous ones.

They're thugs and standover men, Callaghan's mob - they'll get no sympathy from the miners.'

John Frederick "Chow" Hayes-underworld figure, standover man and convicted murderer.

Lanfranchi was a heroin dealer and standover man who worked with Neddy Smith.

Hegyalji was best friend of celebrity criminal and convicted standover man Chopper Read, whom he had contacted several days before his murder.

Brifman also claimed she was paying Krahe $100 weekly to protect her from standover men.

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The known drug dealer and standover man was shot seven times in the head and chest as he sat in his Mercedes-Benz coupé.

Cutmore, a standover man associated with the Razor Gang of Sydney, was also fatally wounded.

Matt is best known for his work in the Australian television mini-series Underbelly: Razor, in which he portrayed notorious psychopath and standover man John "Snowy" Cutmore.

He had once been one of Aldwych's standover men, an artist with an iron bar, but he too had retired, content to live off the boss for what little he did around the place.

Rosa, deciding that Liesel is ready for Max's parting gift, reveals a bundle of papers, not unlike that on which "The Standover Man" was written, hidden within her mattress.

The identity of the robbers was widely known in the underworld and Bennett became the target of standover men (who included the Kane brothers) and corrupt police demanding part of the proceeds.

Kate Ritchie appears twice as Judi Kane, wife of slain standover man Les Kane and stepmother of Trisha Kane who was married to Jason Moran.

In November, it was revealed that Ritchie would appear in the second series of Underbelly, as Judi Kane, the wife of slain 1970s standover man Les Kane.

The next rival eliminated by McPherson was murderer, safecracker and standover man Robert Lawrence "Jacky" Steele, whose shooting and subsequent death became one of the most celebrated criminal cases of the period.

Cutmore joined standover man Norman Bruhn, also originally from Melbourne, in a notorious razor gang who stole the illicit gains of their underworld peers, knowing their crimes would never be reported to the police.

Then, the Town Planner arrives (accompanied by two of his clerks - standover men), and he asks the Goodies to sign a release for "Camelot" to be handed over to him (following which "Camelot" can be demolished and replaced by a super-highway).

For having kept watch over the fugitive Jew for many nights as he recovered from his wearisome journey to find the Hubermanns, Max writes a short illustrated story called "The Standover Man" for Liesel and gives it to her as a birthday gift.

This having been said, she would not tolerate a publican partner who did not give her his very best efforts and a visit by Teekleman in his guise as standover man was the first sign of her displeasure and a warning to the publican to pull up his socks.

Some months later, in 1965, journalists Ron Saw and Frank Brown wrote an article about the case, published in the new satirical magazine Oz in which they alleged that a loose association of prominent Sydney criminals had clubbed together to have Walker killed because of his attempts to establish himself as a standover man.