Joanne Bayly, 59, is a radio newsreader, and Julien Feldman, 58, works in renewable energy. They live in Montreal, CanadaJoanne and Julien met at the scene of a bank robbery, just after the police had shot and killed the culprit. It was 1988, and `there were a lot of bank robberies that year,` Joanne says. Montreal, continues Julien, `used to have the reputation of being the bank robbery capital of the world`. He was the political reporter for the Montreal Daily News. It was a boring beat compared with the action happening on the streets, he says, so he and a colleague, the photographer Aussie Whiting, would listen out for police reports of robberies and rush off to them. `We were always the first on the scene,` he says. On that summer´s day: `We got in his car and he zoomed through all the red lights.` They got exclusive photographs and interviews with the police.By the time Joanne, a radio reporter for Canada´s national broadcaster, CBC, arrived, everyone had gone, although there was still some blood on the pavement. `It was pretty grisly in those days,` she says. `No one else was around and then I saw Julien sitting on a bench.` They got talking and he offered to give her his recorded interviews. `I saved her story,` he says. Continue reading...
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