Veteran crime writer John Silvester (aka Sly of the Underworld) has shed light on the arrest made over the Easey Street murders from back in 1977.

Perry Kouroumblis was arrested at an airport in Rome as part of an investigation into the deaths of two women who were stabbed to death, and Sly said he’d been on an international watch list for seven years.

And the dual citizen of Australia and Greece was a student at a school where one of the victims taught.

Press PLAY to hear Sly answer all of the burning questions from Ross and Russ 

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