They rented an office several floors above and hid the money in that room's safe before coolly walking out of the building and onto the street days after the event.
While being escorted by police from the courthouse holding cells to the courtroom, he was taken up a flight of stairs into the path of a man, disguised as a barrister.
Lee's lawyer, Phillip Dunn, QC, later revealed the details of the crime, including the identities of all those involved.
Robbery is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Michael Thornhill based on the original crime but otherwise entirely fictional.
[8] Lee participated in the production as a consultant, and even used his own residence in Verity Street, Richmond as the shooting location for the house of one of the gang.
The 2002 Australian feature film The Hard Word draws on the Great Bookie robbery for its major crime scene.