‘WA Rambo Has Police Hit List’
“West Australian ‘Rambo’ has police hit-list. A list containing the names and addresses of 15 Perth detectives whose work led to David Francis Everett’s arrest was found after a raid on a Queensland house where he was believed to be staying. …police said Everett was a highly trained commando who had gone more than a little crazy. Special security precautions have been made to protect the officers and their families and an internal investigation launched to find out how Everett, Australia’s most wanted and dangerous man, obtaining such confidential information.”
Sunday Times, 12 January 1992
‘This Man Could Kill You:
Help Find Australia’s Most Wanted’
“Australia’s most wanted criminal, described as a lethal war machine who could kill if approached, is probably still hiding out in North Queensland. He’s small and baby-faced and the average Aussie bloke would reckon he could take him on easily. But police warn that mild-looking David Francis Everett could turn and “stick two fingers in your throat and kill you, in two seconds flat”. He is a former elite military agent, highly trained by the Special Air Service Regiment in killing with weapons or his bare hands, in anti-terrorism, jungle warfare, explosives, escaping capture, resisting interrogation and bush survival. After Everett left the SAS in 1986, he is said to have worked as an arms dealer and fought as a mercenary in Burma, training local anti-government rebels in the combat techniques he know so well.”
Australasian Post, 14 March 1992
‘Everett Linked To Hostage Drama’
“Everett is considered by me to be one of the most dangerous criminals of modern time. During his series of offences he showed an expertise of criminal mind that is totally uncharacteristic of any person that I have dealt with before… He commits his crimes with forethought and intricate planning, this attention to detail obviously coming from his military training…. This attribute of meticulousness puts Everett into a category of his own, but also places him into a position whereby he should be treated with a great deal of respect…”
Inspector in charge of Operation Sinatra, WA Police Force, September 1992
‘Everett in Plot To Kill For Gold: Police’
“Former fugitive David Francis Everett faces new charges based on an alleged plot to murder anyone who interfered with an armed raid on a remote Western Australian gold mine.”
West Australian, November 1992
‘Everett’s Mission of Terror’
“David Francis Everett made a frightening statement when he blew up a 30-tonne explosives magazine in Perth Western Australia on a quiet August night, spreading debris over a 20 kilometre radius. It was Australia’s biggest criminal-initiated explosion and as close to an act of urbane terrorism as Western Australia has ever seen. If West Australian police ever doubted the power of Everett – soldier of fortune, kidnapper and armed robber – the blast proved he knew no bounds. They were right to be worried. Everett left Baldivis armed with 24 kilograms of plastic explosive, 30 kilograms of TNT and a large amount of detonating cord. Throw in a couple of military weapons fitted with laser sights, handcuffs, manacles, electronic surveillance equipment and his SAS training, EVERETT was a one-man army.”
West Australian Newspaper, 31 July 1993
‘Eye To Eye with An Enigma’
“Clean-cut and mild mannered, David Francis Everett could have passed as just another blue-suited worker as he sat quietly in the dock taking notes… Was this the masked and muscled former SAS soldier portrayed in prosecution evidence as a callous mercenary?”
West Australian, 31 July 1993
‘Prison Ends Everett Terror’
“Convicted kidnapper and armed robber, David Francis EVERETT planned to blow up the Reserve Bank, police headquarters and detectives’ homes in a vengeful spree, police claimed yesterday.”
West Australian, 14 September 1993
‘Threats to Associate Cut Everett’s Freedom’
“The big breakthrough in the hunt for Australia’s most dangerous man came after David EVERETT so frightened a Perth associate that he ran to the police for help. It was established by West Australia police that EVERETT was about to embark on a crime spree that would stretch the state's resources to the limit, including a raid on the Reserve Bank of Australia and bombing police headquarters as a distraction. The head of the EVERETT manhunt confirmed that if EVERETT had gone ahead with his plans, Perth would have experienced urbane terrorism at its worst as he had enough intelligence and firepower to do it”
West Australian, 18 September 1993
'Terror Will Not Go Away’
“After having been woken by the cold metal of the rifle resting on my cheek with a light in my eyes I have never been able to settle back into my home.”
Crime Victim as quoted in the West Australian, 18 October 1993
Supreme Court Transcript
“EVERETT deserves 35 years in prison as he was Australia’s most wanted criminal and a man at war with the community.”
Western Australia’s Director of Public Prosecutions at Court of Criminal Appeal, Perth 1993
‘Everett’s Mum Told to Pay Up’
“Magistrate Paul Heaney ordered the mother and sister of David Francis Everett to pay the $200 000 bail they put up for their son as a valuable lesson to others who put up large sums of money to bail people out. They will both lose their homes and be put out in the street.”
Sunday Times, 1993
‘Everett Mystery Breakout Feared’
“Police believe former SAS soldier David Everett has a mystery accomplice who will try and break him out of WA’s maximum security prison. Everett has refused to reveal the man’s identity. This man was also a security risk to witnesses before Everett’s conviction and jailing this week on a string of armed robbery and kidnapping charges. During each appearance Everett made in court he was surrounded by the elite and heavily armed Metropolitan Security Unit and Police Tactical Response Group and is now held under harsh security conditions at Casuarina Prison.”
West Australian, 18 September 1993
‘Court Rejects Security Fears over Everett’
“The security risks and high costs involved in transporting prisoner David Francis Everett from jail to court were rejected yesterday as reasons to delay a court action. In previous court appearances Everett has been brought into the city accompanied by heavily armed guards and the police helicopter.”
West Australian, 9 March 1995
Supreme Court Transcript
“I know some people have got some kind of phobia about Everett’s ability to cause trouble… What I’m concerned about is there seems to be something at the back of all this that I don’t quite understand… If the police have some reason for thinking that he is going to stage some spectacular escape and endanger people’s lives I want it in affidavit evidence and there is none before me. I am really concerned that people are trying to either load up this man with imaginary dangers or put him in a position where it is going to be impossible for him to be rehabilitated, and without one scintilla of evidence... I am concerned that the police or somebody in authority is trying to make life difficult for Everett. …I just fail to understand what is behind all this, who is moving it. It should be put on affidavit evidence so the whole world knows what it is about this man that is so special that he has to be treated in this manner. I personally think it is a grudge on behalf of certain people in the community.”
Supreme Court of Western Australia Judge, 10 May 1995
‘Everett to be Released’
“Ironically, the brilliant soldier-turned mercenary used his military skills to chilling effect as a dangerous criminal… Blond with piercing blue eyes EVERETT’S SAS background – which made him calculating and fearless – helped him carry out brazen robberies in Western Australia.”
Sunday Times, 15 April 2001
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