Pettingill family

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The Pettingill family is an infamous Melbourne-based criminal family who are notable for their association in the Walsh Street police shootings in 1988, and for other major crimes in the Melbourne area over the following years.

Contents 1 Pettingill family members 1.1 Kath Pettingill 1.2 Dennis Allen 1.3 Peter Allen 1.4 Victor Peirce 1.5 Wendy Peirce 1.6 Lex Peirce 1.7 Trevor Pettingill 1.8 Jamie Pettingill 1.9 Vicki Brooks (nee Pettingill) 1.10 Jason Ryan 2 See also 3 References

[edit] Pettingill family members

Members of the Pettingill family include

[edit] Kath Pettingill

Main article: Kath Pettingill

She has one glass eye after losing an eye in a shooting incident at the Collingwood Housing Commission flats (Victoria Police once named a surveillance operation Operation Cyclops, in reference to Kath's eye). Now in her 70s, Kath Pettingill lives a quieter life in Venus Bay, Gippsland.

[edit] Dennis Allen

Main article: Dennis Allen

Son of Kath Pettingill. Denis Allen (nicknamed Mr. Death) was sentenced during the 1970s to a ten-year prison sentence for rape. He was reported to have been a major player in drug dealing in the Richmond and South Yarra areas during the 1980s, and to have ordered the deaths, or committed the murders himself, of many missing persons. Denis Allen died of heart failure in 1987.

Police officer Roger Rogerson received his first criminal conviction in 1985 for involvement in drug dealing when he was charged with conspiring with Dennis Allen to supply heroin.

[edit] Peter Allen

Son of Kath Pettingill.

[edit] Victor Peirce

Main article: Victor Peirce

Son of Kath Pettingill. Peirce was gunned down in Bay St, Port Melbourne, whilst parked outside a supermarket on May 1 2002. His murder remains unsolved.

[edit] Wendy Peirce

Widow of Victor Peirce. In October 2005, she gave a media interview detailing how her husband Victor Peirce planned the Walsh Street police shootings. [1].

[edit] Lex Peirce

Son of Kath Pettingill. Lex Peirce was the seventh child of Kath Pettingill. He has no notable criminal history and lives in Gippsland, Victoria.

[edit] Trevor Pettingill

Son of Kath Pettingill. Trevor Pettingill was born in Melbourne on February 16, 1965 and had become institutionalised by six years of age. He has more than 30 convictions for firearms- and drug-related offences and has served several prison sentences. After his acquittal he moved to the family property at Venus Bay.

[edit] Jamie Pettingill

Son of Kath Pettingill. Died of a heroin overdose in 1985.

[edit] Vicki Brooks (nee Pettingill)

Vicki has one child, Jason Ryan.

[edit] Jason Ryan

Lived with Dennis Allen. Gave evidence as a crown witness against family members in the Walsh Street police shootings trial. In order to gather evidence against the accused family-members of the Pettingill family, police investigating the Walsh Street murders removed Ryan to the rural town of Mansfield, Victoria for a period of questioning under the witness protection program.

[edit] See also

• Crime in Melbourne
• Roger Rogerson

[edit] References