Clontarf is one of the most salubrious suburbs on the northern beaches but in the 1950s it was home to a shyster whose photograph was plastered across the front page of every major Sydney newspaper.
Clontarf is one of the most salubrious suburbs on the northern beaches but in the 1950s it was home to a shyster whose photograph was plastered across the front page of every major Sydney newspaper.
Within months of being brought to public attention, Reginald Aubrey Doyle was declared bankrupt, jailed for contempt of court and then jailed for 10 years for forgery, fraud and theft.
His friendship with a state government minister embarrassed the Labor government on the eve of an election, which it still won, and led to the establishment of a…
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