Capable of anything and dead

While his death is listed as a homicide, in many ways it was natural causes. It was natural that he would cause this.

Arrested more than 30 years ago, just out of his teens, he had no fear, detectives noted. The skinny 20-year-old assaulted a supermarket manager at the Northcote Plaza, with a witness saying the offender kicked the victim’s head, “like it was a soccer ball”.

The arresting officer noted on Preston’s file that he was likely to be mentored in prison and one day would kill….