Articles by Gary Johnston

About Gary Johnston

Gary Johnston is an author, academic and former parole officer with decades of experience in the criminal justice system. He is True Crime News Weekly's Deputy Editor and Melbourne correspondent. His book 'No Previous Conviction' was published in May 2017 and is available on Amazon.

TRUE OPINION: Why Australia Must Rise Up Against Racism

June 11, 2020 Gary Johnston 4

A racist system in this country has been killing Indigenous people and their communities while looting from the poor every day, writes Gary Johnston.

CRIME CULTURE: A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull

April 27, 2020 Gary Johnston 2

The former prime minister’s memoirs do stack up against the better political biographies in a torrid field but it shows a man forlornly in love with himself while ignoring the many calamities around him, writes Gary Johnston.

A PAEDOPHILE & RAPIST! Even if released, George Pell will never be truly innocent

April 7, 2020 Gary Johnston 4

ANALYSIS: In just about an hour’s time, George Pell will learn if his appeal against his conviction for raping two 13-year-old choirboys has been successful. Even if it is, history will likely and rightly remember the former Catholic Archbishop of Australia as a child abuser, a rapist and enabler of other paedophile priests, writes Gary Johnston.

CELTIC COVERED UP LINKS TO PEDO SEX ABUSE RING FOR DECADES! Truth finally being aired by mainstream media in UK

March 5, 2020 Gary Johnston 0

SCOTLAND: Football is now a big business. But behind some of the world’s biggest clubs lie some dark, murky secrets, including a sexual abuse ring which operated over the course of nearly three decades in the UK. Gary Johnston with the latest about the ever growing scandal inflicting Celtic FC.

TRUE OPINION: Who’s Culture is it Anyway?

February 12, 2020 Gary Johnston 2

As a proud Scotsman, Australia contains too much of the bad parts of Britain, reflects Gary Johnston.

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CRIME CULTURE: The Gentlemen

January 14, 2020 Gary Johnston 0

‘The Gentlemen’. It’s shit and you know it is. But you can’t look away, writes mob film aficionado Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: COMFORT & JOY! And Other Unlikely Tidings For Australia In 2020

December 25, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: What’s there to look forward to for Australia this Christmas, wonders our resident grinch Gary Johnston.

“I’D BE LYING IF I DIDN’T SAY IT WAS A POSSIBILITY”! Footballer Andy Woodward talks about paedophile rings in sport & surviving evil coach Barry Bennell

December 20, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

INTERVIEW: How does a victim survive child sexual abuse? Do they? Can they? These questions and many others are at the core of Andy Woodward’s breathtakingly honest memoir, ‘Position of Trust’, telling the horrific story of his years of abuse at the hands of Barry Bennell, an English football coach whose victims number in the hundreds, if not thousands. Gary Johnston with this interview and book review.

CRIME CULTURE: The Irishman

December 10, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

Director Martin Scorsese reunites with old buddies Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and an out-of-retirement Joe Pesci for one last hurrah making a masterpiece of a gangster film. Gary Johnston with this review of ‘The Irishman’.

SCOTLAND’S FOOTBALL ABUSE SCANDAL ON BRINK OF EXPLODING! Questions raised over organised paedophile rings who went from club to club raping boys

November 19, 2019 Gary Johnston 2

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland’s football abuse scandal is expected to explode with more details coming out that some coaches perhaps acted together in an organised paedophile ring, being moved on from club to club after raping and molesting young boys with big dreams of being professional footballers, writes Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: The Great Con of the Race that Stops the Nation

November 11, 2019 Gary Johnston 1

It’s heralded as the greatest sporting and cultural tradition of this nation. Gary Johnston spent a day at the Melbourne Cup to give you this first-hand glimpse of an ugly, faltering Australia dressed to its best.

CRIME CULTURE: The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne

October 31, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

An Australian millionaire rapist who then went to the United States and became a serial killer is the focus of this uneven bit of historical true crime reportage, writes Gary Johnston.

‘OILY DOYLEY’ GREASING UP JUSTICE! Is Robert Doyle Oiling the Wheels of Influence?

October 24, 2019 Gary Johnston 2

EXCLUSIVE: All seems to have gone quiet in the criminal investigation into disgraced Liberal Party heavyweight and former Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle, despite claims more than six months ago that an arrest over sex crimes was “imminent”, writes Gary Johnston.

CONSPIRACY OR COVER UP? Prince Andrew and his decades-long friendship with paedophile pimp mate Jeffrey Epstein

September 8, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

It’s the kind of story involving wealthy elites and claims of global paedophilia that most right-thinking people would have considered a conspiracy theory but with each day it seems there’s more murky details concerning Prince Andrew’s long friendship with the now-dead convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, writes Gary Johnston.

CRIME CULTURE: BYRON BAY! The truth of perfection

August 13, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

With Byron Bay back in the headlines as a playground for wealthy ‘Instamummies’, former parole officer, Gary Johnston, remembers his time and some of the crimes in the beachside party town in this excerpt from his memoir ‘No Previous Conviction’.

CHILD SEX ABUSE COVER-UP RATTLES ‘CULT’ OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL! Fans harass families of abuse victims in extension of never-ending Old Firm derby between Celtic & Rangers

August 2, 2019 Gary Johnston 7

SCOTLAND: Families of child sexual abuse victims say their efforts in calling for the truth to be heard have been hampered by one-eyed football fans who see their plight as just yet another extension of the never-ending Old Firm derby between Celtic FC and their bitter rivals, Glasgow Rangers.