I got the impression, Dr S, that everyone is being a bit coy and shy about why Perry suddenly ups sticks and heads for Italy. Keeping in mind, as Sly says, he was asked, back in Melbourne, in 2017, to submit to a DNA< said yes, and skipped out of it and off to Greece , in jig time in his socks, and disappeared under the legal umbrella of Greek law.
Shane Patton said he did not know why Perry went off to Italy , but his little face looked mighty suspicious, to me. His eyes widened, and he had a little tremor of the lips...
So Perry knows, as long as he is in Greece, if he keeps low, he won't be extradited back to Collingwood Magistrates Court.
But then, at 65, for some reason, some inner voice , some call only his ear can hear, he lays out money on a trip to Rome that guarantees him being picked up on a Red Alert, since he would know that VICPOL, once they realised he had scarperd , would move on to a relative of his, because of Mitochondrial DNA , probably young Tony , his younger brother who speaks of him so firmly , could have been Tony that had to do the test, and would have, not believing that Perry would do such a thing, and still doesn't., that told him about the coppers putting him thru it because Perry had gorn, gorn, gorn...
Perry would know all this, he 'd have to keep up with stuff like that , his very existence relies upon him being in the loop on detection in criminal matters, all over the world....
But he buys that ticket! he boards that plane... . .. I am astonished at this. It had to be good stuff, life changing stuff, stuff of his dreams, a windfall , a huge project...... why else would someone walk straight into the lions den? After nearly 50 years of laying low.....?