Playing around the sheds, they had come across Dad’s stash of a couple of a hundred pounds hard-earned, hidden in an old biscuit tin.īoris found some matches and, having no concept of money, set fire to some of it.
He never felt frightened because it was over in a flash and, besides, it was normal.īefore leaving Rossmore, Boris and Alex copped one justified flogging. Once, he was whacked so hard with a tomato stake it broke his arm. She hit Boris once with a knife for an indiscretion which disappeared from his memory, but the wound never did. Mum could be quite savage, too, with her hidings, though they were far between and few. Boris Milat was regularly beaten as a child. There was, however, a marked change in Dad’s temperament. He was still known among the wharfies, who’d call out his name. There was no time for outings like picnics, just the occasional trip into the city when Steven wanted to see a friend on the docks, or on an incoming vessel. Mum gave birth to child number eight, Michael Gordon, on 29 July 1949. Over the years, Alex would instil his knowledge of weaponry and safety in all his younger brothers. Oblivious to the potential danger until, bullseye, a slug hit Boris right between the eyes, leaving a nasty red welt and causing a flood of tears. He and his little brother Boris were running around with their air guns playing cowboys and Indians, popping shots off at each other, That wasn’t the first time Alex was in strife with guns. He stayed there for hours until Mum came looking at dusk to give him the all-clear. Richard Milat with his brother Ivan.īy the time Steven reached the door, Alex had covered the hundred or so yards to the back fence like a champion athlete and disappeared into the bushes.
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