This picks up straight from the last piece where Garry “Gaz” Wright’s Hope Cartel factory on Cobra Street in Melton was reduced to a charred wreck after a suspicious early-morning blaze. The one where the flames looked like they were collecting on old scores. Here’s the rest of it, the part that doesn’t make the redemption podcasts or the crowdfunding appeals.
I know a bit about how Gaz put this current operation together because I helped him with contacts when he first started sniffing around the idea of running proper rehab-style work. Not the podcast version. The real version. He had a young bloke he’d taken under his wing, trying to get him clean off the ice. I put him onto solid people and a farm-based rehab clinic that actually knows what it’s doing. Proper structure. Proper accountability. Not just vibes and breathing.
