THE KEY PLAYERS

David Everett joined the elite SAS
in 1983 and transferred to WA.
He married in 1986 and was given
an honourable discharge from
the services. He later became a
mercenary, fighting with the Karen
rebels in Burma.

In 1993, he was jailed for
14 years for 25 offences he
committed in the early 1990s,
including armed robbery,
kidnapping, staging his own
abduction while on home
detention, blowing up a munitions
store at Baldivis and plotting to
rob a gold mine. His jail term was
increased to 18 years after a State
appeal and he was released on
parole in 2002.

In 2008, his biography Shadow
Warrior was released and the DPP
seized his assets under proceeds of
crime laws.

By then, he had bought a house
in Canberra with his new partner
Darryl Wookey.
Darryl Wookey was acting
Freedom of Information
commissioner for WA from 2003
until 2007 and now works for the
Australian Government Solicitor in
Canberra.

She had previously worked as
a lawyer for Kott Gunning, where
she met John Quigley. The pair had
a three-year relationship before Mr
Quigley broke it off in 1997.

After leaving Kott Gunning, Ms
Wookey became principal policy
officer for then police minister
Graham Edwards.

She left to become the FOI
commissioner’s principal legal
officer and joined the ALP to
contest preselection for the State
seat of Ballajura in 1999, but was
defeated by John D’Orazio.
John Quigley was married first to
Mary-Ellen Quigley and was a
high-profile lawyer, often
representing police officers
accused of wrongdoing.

He later had a relationship
with Ms Wookey, but broke it
off after three years in 1997.
During their relationship, he once
cross-examined David Everett
during a court hearing where
Mr Quigley represented a prison
superintendent.

In 1999, he won preselection
for Labor for the State seat of
Innaloo thanks to the backing of
former premier Brian Burke.

He was elected to Parliament in
2001 and later became the MLA
for the new seat of Mindarie in
2005.

He met his current wife Michelle
while working to have Andrew
Mallard, who had served 11 years
for a murder he did not commit,
released from jail.