Oct 1, 2026 · 42 min · 12 segments
He was a silk at Sydney's most prestigious criminal defence chambers. And the former chairman of a celebrated charity protecting vulnerable children, where some called him "godfather". But he went by…
Charlotte GrieveMadison ConnaughtonHost
So the story starts earlier this year on a quiet street in Leichhardt.
It's got tiny little terrace houses, frangipani trees, native trees, dogs barking.
But on this day in January, there is a police raid on a small brick two-storey terrace.
They tell me that the door is actually wide open and they can see these uniformed police officers swarming around the building.
But what they see with the door open is a detective sitting at a desk and going through a computer.
And so do you know anything about why the cops are there or what they find?
The message says that if this device is connected to the internet, the contents will auto-delete.
So it seems like whoever wrote that note might have been prepared for something like this, for a police raid.
The house was owned by a man named Mark Dennis, and he was one of Sydney's top criminal defence barristers.
A couple of other neighbours I spoke to said he was perfectly pleasant.
He kept to himself and they didn't really know much about him, except for his car, which had a personalised licence plate that said, wasn't me.
Yeah, and on the morning of the raid, these same neighbours had no idea that Mark Dennis had just been arrested at Sydney Airport and charged by Australian federal police officers with possessing and transmitting child abuse material.
So the story starts earlier this year on a quiet street in Leichhardt.
It's got tiny little terrace houses, frangipani trees, native trees, dogs barking.
But on this day in January, there is a police raid on a small brick two-storey terrace.
They tell me that the door is actually wide open and they can see these uniformed police officers swarming around the building.
But what they see with the door open is a detective sitting at a desk and going through a computer.
And so do you know anything about why the cops are there or what they find?
The message says that if this device is connected to the internet, the contents will auto-delete.
So it seems like whoever wrote that note might have been prepared for something like this, for a police raid.
The house was owned by a man named Mark Dennis, and he was one of Sydney's top criminal defence barristers.
A couple of other neighbours I spoke to said he was perfectly pleasant.
He kept to himself and they didn't really know much about him, except for his car, which had a personalised licence plate that said, wasn't me.
Yeah, and on the morning of the raid, these same neighbours had no idea that Mark Dennis had just been arrested at Sydney Airport and charged by Australian federal police officers with possessing and transmitting child abuse material.
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