Dave Everett

[1] Everett began his career as a mechanic fixing supply trucks and joined the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) at 21 where he spent three and a half years.

To do this he needed money and turned to armed robbery involving former SASR comrade James Reynolds and another unknown accomplice who too was suspected by police to be ex-SASR.

In 1991 in Perth, Western Australia, all three raided the home of a theatre manager and his pregnant wife of 6 months taking the couple at gun-point for three hours in order to open the safe to gain access to the funds.

Everett, however, was released on bail whilst Reynolds committed suicide in prison, the third accomplice escaped capture and remained unidentified.

He then returned to Western Australia and perpetrated two more robberies on two separate IGA shopping centres by surveying the owners, tracking them home and holding them hostage in two attempts to break into their safes, both of which were empty.

Finally he went down to an explosives storage magazine in Baldivis, south of Perth, in order to get munitions for a gold robbery to pay for his mother's house that had been confiscated by the courts.

[5] Whilst in prison used his time to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in international relations and journalism and in 1999 he graduated with Honors in Strategic Studies.