John Makita
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219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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They did lock their doors more than they used to because my grandmother and grandfather always had this thing where you could essentially walk straight into the garage, which was underneath their house in Red Hill.
The roller door sometimes was left open.
I mean, they were just trusting of other people.
But from that point, it all changed.
When they had bought the house in McKellar, they had basically turned it into Fort Knox.
And I think that came out through the police investigation and the trial where, you know, they put up high fences.
They basically refurbished the whole house.
There was dead locks.
There was large gates everywhere.
And unfortunately, in the end, the place that the two offenders got through was just somewhere which we would never thought somebody would fit through.
Well, my grandparents were quite active in the Hungarian-Australian club and also in the Hungarian community, they were very well respected and widely known.
And yeah, we obviously did think about that too.
I mean, my grandparents had known so many people and, you know, especially in their carpentry business too.
You know, it wasn't just the Hungarian community.
There was a lot of Europeans that would come to them and get kitchens built and
And so, you know, the suspects could have been basically anybody.
But yeah, certainly the Hungarian community was suspected.
And in this instance, we never actually thought about the Hungarian community further afield, like in Melbourne.
That's a night that we'll never forget.
I think the whole family will never forget.
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