01 Dark Menace | The Chairman's Secrets

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 the alias of Dark Menace — and was allegedly hiding a sinister double life. Within weeks of that becoming known, he was dead.  

In episode one of this three-part series, reporter Charlotte Grieve travels to Cambodia to investigate who Mark Dennis SC really was. 

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