From all appearances, the Goozee’s were your average Aussie family. Three kids and a home Craig and

his wife, Lisa, had built in the idyllic beachside community of Avalon. However, there was nothing “average” about Craig or the turn life was about to take for the family of five.

In 1997, shortly following the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption, a NSW task force created Operation Gymea. This elite group of nine officers was to covertly observe organized crime syndicates….. and to gather intelligence on their networks and the corrupt Police who protected them. Craig who had just led the successful investigation into the North Shore Rapist, Graham Kay, was one of the first officers enlisted to Gymea.

His undercover work was, as a procedural necessity, always kept secret from Lisa and his young family. Craig’s unusual work hours and long absences from home, created its own challenges. Lisa had become used to this and skillfully ran her own domestic operation.

While working on Gymea, one of the biggest operations of Craig’s career, came the biggest blow of the Goozee’s lives. Their eldest daughter Jessica, at only eight years old was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer – Ewing Sarcoma. With months ahead of aggressive treatment, the Goozee family had to grow accustomed to a different lifestyle. From here on, days of surveillance of Sydney’s most heinous criminals, were followed by visits to the hospital to be with Jessica. Relieving Lisa to return to their two youngest while Craig camped on a cot in the cancer ward. It was chaotic. All the while, Jessica’s effervescent sense of mischief and tenacious drive to overcome was keeping the whole Goozee family positive.

Craig is now fighting two simultaneous battles. One to uncover the web of Police corruption and to arrest the criminals they protect, the other, to do everything to save his daughters life. He had years of elite police training to combat crime…… he had no training as a father helping his daughter battle cancer. How could he help his beautiful daughter? There was no manual…. No procedure.

He decided to embark on a series of ultra marathons to raise money for Childrens Cancer research and to improve the conditions of the cancer ward he visited everyday.

Craig now had three monumental challenges. How all three corners of this story evolve, interact and finally resolve is suspenseful, dramatic and emotional.

A true story of passion and endurance. Triumph and tragedy.

Story world

This is the story…….. of Sydney’s criminal underworld just before the turn of the century. Mobile phones are the size of bricks, the internet was primitive and social media did not exist. The methods Craig and his team used to investigate could be described as “old school”. Hand’s on investigating resulting in dangerous and sometime amusing close encounters.

This is the story……. of a family battling to adjust to their daughters diagnosis and treatment. It’s an emotional journey with no road map. The highs and lows test the Goozees with surprising results.

This is the story……..of Australia’s most beautiful and unique landscapes. As Craig raises money for Childrens Cancer he undertakes several ultra marathons that feature the oceans and beaches of Eastern Australia and the Deserts and wilderness of Western Australia.

Conviction

Based on the book “For One For All”. Author Craig Goozee

Development materials by Lauren Clair. Adapted by Three Ring Circus Productions