‘To see him lying there, dead on the nature strip ... I really did have to steel myself’

To do his job as a homicide detective Sol Solomon knew he had to remain cool and clinical – a task at its most challenging when he was called to Cochranes Road, Moorabbin, in the early hours of August 16, 1998.

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