REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Tuesday, June 22, 2004

FORMER triple world boxing champion Jeff Fenech was squeezing in what time he could with his family, trying to believe his days were not numbered.

Fenech’s Sydney home was peppered with bullets in a driveby shooting, the day before he arrived home from a Boxing Hall of Fame induction in America.

He went on to holiday to the Gold Coast with wife Suzee and children Kayla, Jessica and son Beau in an attempt to put the nasty incident behind him.

Trauma, too, through the knowledge that he was in all probability a marked man.

“It could be the last time I spend with them,” he said in an interview with the Bulletin in which he also professed no knowledge of who could be behind the attacks on him.

In January, Fenech had his

face slashed open with glass from a broken bottle. Then the shooting at his home.

“These guys are maniacs,” he said. “They are young boys who are totally out of control. These guys have no value for life, theirs or other people’s.

“The trouble is if the police arrest so-and-so for opening up my face then he gets another 50 (grand contract) on to it, so what can I do? I train these little boys, 19 and 20-year-old kids. They have a hatred for some reason.’’