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By <\/span>Dan Box<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Each letter had to get past prison authorities, who would stamp it with a single word in red ink: Vetted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before turning to write this story, I wrote to my friend Zak, who\u2019s been doing time for murder in a Northern Territory prison. I wrote about his upcoming parole date; he\u2019d sent me a letter saying, \u201cHmm parole\u2009\u2026\u2009I know, NO lifer has ever got that first time.\u201d In other letters, he\u2019d written about getting a \u201clittle\/medium size house in the middle of nowhere\u201d and finding a \u201cbrunette pocket rocket\u201d if he gets out. I encouraged him to keep his head down and focus on the things he\u2019s looking forward to after he gets out, rather than bucking the system and risking his release.<\/p>\n

I also wrote about my daughter Poppy\u2019s cancer diagnosis and treatment. For three years now, these same few things \u2013 life, death, the future and what threatens it \u2013 have been tied up in what we\u2019ve written to each other. \u201cI can\u2019t pretend to know how you are feeling,\u201d I wrote to Zak. \u201cExcept that every part of you must be screaming to get out now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like all our letters, I wrote by hand, this time in black ink on coarse, lined paper torn from an A4 notebook. I covered five sheets only \u2013 any more and the prison authorities would refuse to accept it. Folding the pages over three times to fit inside an envelope, I felt its squidgy thickness. You forget, in an age of emails, the anticipation of receiving a fat letter like this; of squeezing it between your fingers before opening it, of knowing there are words and worlds inside to escape to. We have both needed this in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving in dorms filled with sex offenders,\u201d Zak wrote in his last letter, in August. \u201cThis place has fully f—ed my headspace.\u201d He says he\u2019s not a killer, and even the judge who put Zak in prison said he didn\u2019t believe the then 19-year-old was there when the murder was committed on the night of October 23, 2011. \u201cI take no pleasure in this outcome,\u201d Justice Dean Mildren said when handing down his sentence in January 2013. It was the way the mandatory sentencing laws were written in the Northern Territory, he said, \u201cwhich inevitably bring about injustice\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was that line, which I read in Good Weekend<\/em> in 2014, that set me on the trail of trying to understand what Zak did or didn\u2019t do on the night in question. I followed the twists and turns of his involvement in the murder of Ray Niceforo, first as a reporter seeking to highlight this injustice, then later as a friend, after Zak and I started writing to each other. That was in 2017; following Poppy\u2019s cancer diagnosis in 2020 at the age of nine, it was with Zak whom I shared my hopes and fears \u2013 as if, facing his own life sentence, he might understand them. That was when Zak saved me.<\/p>\n

I addressed my most recent letter with his full name, Zak Grieve, his prisoner number and the prison\u2019s PO box, then sent it north to Darwin.<\/p>\n\n

There are<\/strong> two versions of what happened to Ray Niceforo and who took part in his killing. In one, given in court by Zak and his friend, Chris Malyschko, Zak was a kind of innocent living in the isolated Stuart Highway town of Katherine. When Malyschko offered him $5000 to help get rid of someone, Zak said yes, though he wasn\u2019t sure what getting rid of someone meant. Maybe it meant kicking their head in or forcing them out of Katherine.<\/p>\n

Zak learnt he\u2019d misunderstood when he and Malyschko were preparing to drive to their victim\u2019s unit, a single-storey slab of brick and cinder blocks, with junk piled up around the front door, backing on the Victoria Highway on the edge of Katherine. Zak realised that Niceforo, a mean, balding man in his early 40s who\u2019d beaten and abused his fianc\u00e9e \u2013 Malyschko\u2019s mother \u2013 wasn\u2019t going to survive the night. \u201cI can\u2019t go through with this,\u201d he told Malyschko. \u201cI can\u2019t help you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zak Grieve and his mum, Glenice,who petitioned the NT administrator for mercy. \u201cI need your help,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI understand,\u201d Malyschko replied, saying he\u2019d drive Zak home. A third man had also agreed to take part, in return for a share in the $15,000 that Malyschko\u2019s mother was paying to be free of Niceforo. The third man told Zak, \u201cYou\u2019re a pussy.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the second version, given in court by this man, Darren Halfpenny, Zak didn\u2019t pull out of the murder. In this version, all three men busted into Niceforo\u2019s place, where he was alone for the evening. Zak went in first and helped hold the victim down while Malyschko beat him to death. [Zak refutes this version.]<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see why Malyschko might have lied about what happened: to protect his friend Zak. But Halfpenny\u2019s account gets more complicated when you learn he lied to police about his own actions, including insisting he burnt the clothes he wore that night on the old abandoned airstrip in Katherine near the cemetery, only to backtrack later and admit that he hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The police knew that Halfpenny, 22 at the time, was a liar before the case went to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory but the prosecution still
relied on him as a witness. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t care if I lie, it\u2019s just when I lie, it just comes out,\u201d Halfpenny said under cross-examination. Despite there being no forensic evidence linking Zak to the killing, the jury found him guilty.<\/p>\n

In the Northern Territory, the law says you\u2019re guilty of murder if you agree to take part in one then pull out, unless you try to stop the killing. Zak didn\u2019t do that. Instead, after Malyschko dropped him home, he went to bed and tried to pretend it wasn\u2019t happening. In our early letters, Zak kept asking how long I thought he should have received: \u201cIn your opinion, what do [you] think I would\/should have gotten?\u201d I tried to avoid answering directly, afraid to commit to judgment.<\/p>\n

As the years passed, the question of his guilt or innocence seemed less important than other things. I started to think more about how young Zak was, his complicated family story, how he smoked a lot of weed and loved video games, preferring their fantasy worlds to the reality of life in Katherine. He did something stupid. Eventually, I told him he did deserve some jail time. Four or six years; maybe 10. Short enough for him to one day put it behind him.<\/p>\n

But in the Northern Territory, life means life, with a mandatory non-parole period of 20 years.<\/p>\n\n

The first<\/strong> time I drove into Katherine, my car radio stammered back into life again after the long silence of the three-hour journey south from Darwin. It was 2017 and a politician was tub-thumping about rising crime, demanding police do more to stop it. \u201cAre things getting worse?\u201d the interviewer goaded. \u201cA lot of people tell you it is getting worse,\u201d the politician answered. \u201cPeople tell you it is the worst it has ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I drove over the Katherine River, which wraps itself around the west of the town, brightly coloured shopfronts started replacing the muted reds and greens of the bush I had left behind. A group of Aboriginal people sat cross-legged outside the shopping centre where Zak\u2019s parents ran a store selling sunglasses. A toddler stood in a nappy, waving. White people hurried past pushing shopping trolleys, fiddling with their phones, not waving back.<\/p>\n

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A postal game of noughts and crosses between author Dan and Zak.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside her shop, Zak\u2019s mother, Glenice, a Jingili-Mudburra woman, stood behind the counter, twisting her bleached-blonde hair around her fingers. At first she seemed defensive, untrusting of this white reporter who\u2019d turned up from Sydney. Later, over repeated visits and long phone calls, her guard dropped. Glenice told me how she\u2019d nearly lost Zak when she was pregnant and the doctors told her she was miscarrying. How she\u2019d walked out of hospital, gone home and had a bit of a pray, telling the big man upstairs, \u201cDon\u2019t do this, don\u2019t you do this to me. Don\u2019t you dare take him.\u201d The big man didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Zak was mixed-race, his mother told me; his dad, Wal, was white. Zak\u2019s skin was so pale he\u2019d joke he was the Albino Aboriginal; she told him he must commit to his culture. She said he had a blue-tongue lizard dreaming because Wal had cracked open a nest of baby blue-tongues while driving a grader when Glenice was pregnant. As Zak came out, the umbilical cord got wrapped around his neck and his lips and tongue went blue-purple, just like that lizard. Her third child, he was a sickly kid, suffering from asthma and an eating disorder. She breastfed Zak until he was six.<\/p>\n

Glenice said her son went to jail because he was Aboriginal. She claimed that the NT government got federal funding according to the numbers held in prison, meaning they made money out of locking up her people. \u201cBlackfellas are enterprise to these people,\u201d she told me, meaning NT politicians. I asked different people from the NT government about this; they all said it wasn\u2019t true. But when you look at the official figures, Glenice\u2019s explanation makes as much sense as any other.<\/p>\n

First Nations people make up a minority of the NT\u2019s population (26 per cent) but a majority of its prisoners (84 per cent). The proportion of its population who are jailed is more than three times higher than any other Australian state or territory; it also incarcerates a higher proportion of its peoples than do the US states of Georgia, Arkansas and Oklahoma and is on par with Mississippi and Louisiana. In hungry prison system terms, that makes the NT Australia\u2019s Deep South.<\/p>\n

It was tough for everybody. Glenice used to visit Zak in prison, making the long bus journey north to Darwin to see him. Wal was doing fly-in, fly-out work a long way from anywhere, and would visit when he had time. Zak\u2019s parents separated after he went to prison.<\/p>\n

Few of Zak\u2019s old mates from Katherine stayed in contact. At first he wrote them letters but they tended not to write back. Most of the other prisoners would say hi to him, however. \u201cI know at least 500 out of the 1000, and I say hello to all of them,\u201d he told me in one letter. But it was hard to find real friends in prison, where people are always coming and going without warning and sometimes in the space of a few months.<\/p>\n

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Letter from Zak to Dan: \u201cHave you seen a kids show called Bluey?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Zak\u2019s letters constantly surprised me. In one, he asked about my favourite Disney movie and which my kids preferred. His was a toss-up between Treasure Planet<\/em> and Hercules<\/em>. The saddest Disney movie, Zak wrote, was Up<\/em>: about an old man who wants to break free from his life after his wife dies, so ties a cloud of coloured helium balloons to the house they bought together and floats away from the world below him.<\/p>\n

Glenice, who does not own a computer, asked me to write letters for her, dictating them in person or over the phone while I typed. \u201cI\u2019m a mother who\u2019s looking to you to find some sort of mercy. I\u2019m appealing to you as a parent, as a father,\u201d she dictated in one letter, which she asked me to send to the then administrator of the Northern Territory, John Hardy. Her son was given a life sentence under the NT\u2019s mandatory sentencing legislation, Glenice said, which meant politicians set the punishment for murder, not judges. Even the judge who oversaw the trial said he did not believe Zak was there when the murder was committed. Glenice was crying softly as she
dictated the words: \u201cHow would you feel if this happened to your child? What would you do? I need your help. Please help me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the matter?\u201d my wife asked. I couldn\u2019t answer … I wrote to Zak then, seeking friendship.<\/p>\n

After receiving that letter, John Hardy announced he would consider cutting Zak\u2019s non-parole period from 20 years to 12, under an archaic power called the prerogative of mercy. Zak\u2019s lawyers then got involved and in 2018 the decision to cut it to 12 years was formalised by Hardy\u2019s successor, Vicki O\u2019Halloran. Zak becomes eligible for parole this month.<\/p>\n\n

By 2018<\/strong>, I\u2019d left Australia for the UK, quitting my job as a newspaper reporter and moving across the world with my wife, Nell, and our then two kids. I\u2019d landed unemployed in a new country where the weather was cold and the nights come in early. I felt hollow. For days, my clothes remained unpacked in a wheelie suitcase I\u2019d bought from Kmart to carry around the volumes of transcript from Zak\u2019s murder trial when I\u2019d been reporting on it.<\/p>\n

One evening I sat on the bed, head in my hands, listening to the ringing laughter of our daughters as they played downstairs. \u201cWhat\u2019s the matter?\u201d my
wife asked. I couldn\u2019t answer. Outside, the dark street was empty. I knew no one in Hathersage, the English village we\u2019d moved to. I wrote to Zak then, seeking friendship.<\/p>\n

Later, I would write to him during my two-hour commute to and from Manchester for a job I hated. It could take weeks and sometimes months to get a reply, partly because each letter had to get past prison authorities, who would stamp it with a single word in red ink: Vetted.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I\u2019m not good at advice,\u201d Zak wrote. \u201cBut I do like to weigh up my options. What bugs me is the travel time it takes you to get to work. If you had to work there 1 or 2 days a week for the next 3 years that\u2019s roughly 156 to 312 hours lost when it comes to spending time with family.\u201d Zak knew the value of lost time, I figured. I quit the job.<\/p>\n

In other letters, Zak described his own day in prison: \u201cWalking outside the sun is bright in the sky with no clouds to be seen with strong winds holding a dry chill and blowing red dust everywhere.\u201d The darkness around me began to recede a little.<\/p>\n\n

I was walking<\/strong> in the sunshine along a footpath leading out of Hathersage when my wife called to say our eldest daughter had cancer. A doctor took the phone from my wife, who\u2019d driven Poppy to hospital that morning after noticing a strange bump on her tummy. The doctor had a soft voice. She said they didn\u2019t yet know what kind of cancer it was or how serious it might be. She\u2019d later tell us their scans revealed a tumour the size of a grapefruit. Poppy was nine. Somehow, we\u2019d missed it earlier.<\/p>\n

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Dan Box with Poppy at the start of treatment. Writing to Zak helped him give voice to his darkest thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n

On our first visit to the paediatric oncology clinic, I looked at the other families nursing children with no hair and with tubes running into their noses, and thought, \u201cThis isn\u2019t us. We\u2019re not like them, surely?\u201d The doctors called us into a room and sat there looking compassionate, saying it was neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nerve cells. Poppy had a less than 50 per cent chance of surviving the next five years, they told us.<\/p>\n

Our life became a slow turn of chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, more chemo, radiotherapy and immunotherapy; days and weeks and longer spent in hospital; nights filled with beeping hospital equipment; watching our daughter getting sicker. During one of those nights, Glenice called and told me to buy Poppy a pink crystal for healing. That I should put it under her pillow, so the crystal would absorb the bad energy, which could then be washed away. I did.<\/p>\n

I wrote to Zak, putting down on paper the things I couldn\u2019t always bring myself to talk about in person to those around me. \u201cTruly buddy, it\u2019s good to hear as it is\/was the first time we had actually written about it,\u201d he replied. I was able to give voice to my darkest thoughts, then send them away to someone who knew how easily the life you expect can be taken from you.<\/p>\n

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Counting the days in the isolation ward where Poppy spent a month undergoing chemotherapy.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I write this, Poppy is defying the odds, and due for more surgery. Zak, meanwhile, is hoping to be released on parole. I recently sent him some proofs of the book I\u2019d written about him and me, splitting them between several letters so there was no more than five pages in each envelope. I told him the last chapter would be the hardest. That\u2019s the one he would have to write when he gets out of prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cHmm, by the way, I liked your ending,\u201d Zak wrote back. \u201cThanks mate. I felt we had\/have a genuine friendship. And, I don\u2019t think this is the end of \u2018this\u2019 story, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zak said he\u2019d spoken to his dad about the pages I sent him. Wal had told him, \u201cIt felt very Ned Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see that,\u201d Zak wrote. \u201c\u2018Such is Life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Man Who Wasn\u2019t There by Dan Box (Ultimo Press, $37) is out now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To read more from<\/b> Good Weekend <\/i><\/b>magazine, visit our page at<\/b> The Sydney Morning Herald<\/i><\/b>,<\/b> The Age<\/i><\/b> and<\/b> Brisbane Times.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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