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About Don Hancock
- Donald Leslie Hancock (known as Don Hancock) (5 January 1937 – 1 September 2001) was a Western Australian policeman, who was at the centre of doubts involving the investigation of the Perth Mint Swindle. Hancock was born in Boulder, Western Australia on 5 January 1937, to Leslie John Hancock and Melba May (nee Bourke).
- He worked in the family's gold mine at Grant's Patch near Ora Banda, before joining the Western Australian Police in 1959.
- Initially part of the Gold Stealing Detection Squad, he transferred to the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) in 1966.
- He worked in various detective branches before becoming officer-in-charge of the CIB in 1989, and retired on 28 January 1994.
- He retired to Ora Banda to run the historic inn. In the book Mickelberg Stitch, author Avon Lovell captioned a photograph of him with the name The Grey Fox.Hancock was killed on 1 September 2001 in Lathlain by a bomb placed under his car.Tony Lewandowski, a police colleague, committed suicide on 18 May 2004.
- Before his death, he had identified himself and Hancock as being responsible for fabricating evidence against the three Mickelberg brothers in the Perth Mint Swindle investigation.
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