tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41658315114193943172024-03-12T23:31:50.275-07:00Port Arthur InquiryOskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-18921345900249441522021-11-03T16:03:00.003-07:002021-11-03T16:03:49.460-07:00Burning Water<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ1EUpmXcb85yOWgpF_IBPhFAbI27bRxVj-NVZnoZ7W8zY2VFSlrRsFyICIczplsftRVwWEks9pvhcQPLvXFsBaoLG26Lv9Lu3l774KW9LUkEQpsuupCHzHIZVKKm8KdBc2nVAxeSgV_9SVWcQRSuH6Px_HDwBS2Bhv9G-9sYW_TDchnN8uGOcbujX=s860" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ1EUpmXcb85yOWgpF_IBPhFAbI27bRxVj-NVZnoZ7W8zY2VFSlrRsFyICIczplsftRVwWEks9pvhcQPLvXFsBaoLG26Lv9Lu3l774KW9LUkEQpsuupCHzHIZVKKm8KdBc2nVAxeSgV_9SVWcQRSuH6Px_HDwBS2Bhv9G-9sYW_TDchnN8uGOcbujX=s320" width="201" /></a></div><br />With almost 600 pages of gripping narrative, this revised version of The 2nd Empty Chair covers the months and years after the massacre as well. <br /><br />It includes new eyewitness testimony, Martin's interviews with both the police and John Avery, the locked door at the Broad Arrow Café and much more.<br /><br />Available on Amazon.com.au for Kindle or in paperback:<p></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5a7nj7vk">https://tinyurl.com/5a7nj7vk</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-54574525656719279752020-06-16T04:59:00.002-07:002020-06-16T04:59:15.422-07:00Vehicles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Martin Bryant's yellow Volvo is one of the most famous vehicles in Australia.<br />
People familiar with the Port Arthur Massacre also recognise the gold BMW, burned by SOG Constable Andrew Fogarty on the Seascape grounds.<br />
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After Seascape burned down, you can clearly see the burned-out BMW beside the trees to the rear of the property.<br />
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The court case alleges that Martin Bryant killed David and Sally Martin inside Seascape, then drove his own car to Port Arthur and committed the massacre, returning to Seascape in the BMW.<br />
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I want to know what happened to David and Sally Martin's car.<br />
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In the Prison Interview, Martin says that David and Sally Martin owned a Volvo:<br />
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If they were home, where was it? Look at the photos - no car, only the burned out BMW. What kind of Volvo did the Martin's own? Where is it? Look at the photos. The cops didn't know, because they change the subject quickly back to the keys to Seascape in Martin's Volvo. Martin responds that 'someone else must have put them there.' How close to the truth his simple mind actually was! Why on earth would you take the keys to the crime scene to a murder spree, then leave them behind? With your own passport in the glove compartment?<br />
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Back to David and Sally's Volvo. Is it the decoy Volvo that Ashley Law saw behind the Church after the shooting, with two women inside, who later vanished? Ashley remembered it because he was worried the cops might mistake it for the gunman and shoot them by mistake. Who were these women and why didn't they give a witness statement to the police?<br />
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So, it's likely that someone moved David and Sally Martin's car from Seascape. This person or persons are likely an accomplice to murder, and suggest that Martin was not acting alone, and could indeed have been set up as he claims.<br />
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Now, it looks like the guest house has a garage door in the wall. Is that a garage with the car inside or had it been sealed off inside and turned into a living area for the guest house?<br />
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The victim's families deserve closure and that comes by knowing the full truth. All the investigators ask is for a full inquiry with all the evidence reviewed so that we can know justice has been done. Because with the number of questions swirling around this case, there is reasonable doubt that Martin Bryant is guilty of the crimes he was convicted for.<br />
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<br />Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-59658841637652310432020-05-13T02:41:00.000-07:002020-05-13T02:41:24.519-07:00CNN<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Summary: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This paper deals with CNN's coverage of the Port Arthur Massacre,
detailing the extent of CNN's coverage, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">then
evaluating the </b>working relationship which developed between CNN and the
Tasmanian Police. Because CNN had so much direct contact with the police ‑ and
so little direct contact with other emergency services ‑ the evaluation focuses
on the CNN~Police relationship. But the point of the paper ‑ that co‑operation
(and the appearance of co‑operation) between police and media can be mutually
beneficial ‑ has some application to all emergency services in their dealings
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As an
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">By every measure ‑
the amount of material produced, the amount of airtime provided and the amount
of money spent ‑ CNN's coverage of the Port Arthur Massacre was the biggest
coverage of an Australian news event that it has ever mounted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CNN's previous biggest coverage of an
Australian news event was of the bushfires which swept into parts of Sydney in
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explaining CNN and its scope, it started in 1980 ‑ originally providing a
24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week news channel to US cable TV viewers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It went global in 1986 and now covers, and
transmits to, more than 220 countries and territories around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its [sic] audience is impossible to measure
accurately but it is estimated to range between 250 million and 600 million
viewers at any one time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chronology of CNN's coverage of the Port Arthur Massacre, to demonstrate the
extent of the coverage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And like most
people who had any association with the incident, one is inclined to start with
"where you were at the time you first heard about it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I was in the gym
at North Sydney Leagues Club on the afternoon of Sunday 28 April 1996.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While exercising, my attention was attracted
when the announcer on a music radio station that was coming over the gym's PA
uttered words to the effect: "And coming up soon we'll have a news
flash!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He played another record
and then gave the news flash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The flash gave
sketchy details of a shooting spree at Port Arthur ‑ saying it was believed up
to a dozen people may have been hit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I left the gym and
immediately alerted CNN's International News-Gathering Desk at CNN HQ in
Atlanta via my car phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While doing so
I heard on ABC radio a reasonably comprehensive run-down of what was known ‑
reported by an ABC journalist in Hobart and attributing the details to
Tasmanian police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this stage 12 were
confirmed dead ‑ with the possibility of another 8 - to -12 fatalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">CNN interrupted
it's newscast and put me to air live ‑ the anchorperson interviewing me over
the phone about what was being reported in Australia about the incident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From that point, and for four straight days,
the Port Arthur Massacre dominated CNN's round-the-clock news.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Immediately after
that first interview, I called Directory Assistance and a most co-operative
woman provided me with a multitude of possibly useful phone numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to a general number for the
Police in Hobart she gave me a number for Police 'Public Affairs' (as </span>I recall the title
‑ a number which proved very useful) and she also gave me a number for the Port
Arthur Historic Site. I passed these
numbers onto Atlanta as I drove home.
Meanwhile, my wife, who was at home, started the considerable task of
getting me on flights to Hobart.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">By the time I
arrived home, ran through the shower, packed and headed for the airport, CNN
had spoken live on air by phone to a police spokesperson (I believe Inspector
Gary Leonard) and had several long conversations live on air with the PR person
at Port Arthur Historic Site, Sue Hobbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From what my colleagues in Atlanta have told me, the, first time they
talked to Sue on air she and the people with her were still fearful and anxious
as they were unaware of Bryant's whereabouts and were frightened he might
return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My colleagues have told me that
Sue provided some riveting descriptions of what had occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parts of her interviews were replayed on ABC
radio around Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(ABC subscribes
to CNN).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thanks to a taxi
driver whose father had been a TV news cameraman in Ireland ‑ and so the driver
understood my urgency ‑ I made it to the airport just in time to get on a
flight to Melbourne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Melbourne
airport an extremely co-operative Ansett executive somehow got me on the last
flight to Hobart, even though it was supposedly fully booked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he allowed me to use his fax machine to
receive detailed wire service reports on the story from CNN in Atlanta as well
as various contact names and phone numbers and logistical details that CNN
staff had compiled for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Also, while I was
getting to Melbourne, CNN had made arrangements with WIN TV in Hobart to
provide me with all of their footage, a cameraman (to do a reporter's stand up)
and a video editor to put together a video report of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly after midnight that night ‑and with
great co-operation from WIN staff ‑ the first video report by any international
TV news organisation's [sic] own reporter in Hobart went by satellite from WIN
to CNN and promptly went around the world on CNN ‑ being replayed again and
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I was still doing
live audio reports by phone with CNN until 0500 on the Monday ‑ had 20 minutes
sleep ‑ and resumed doing live audio reports by phone at 0600.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These reports by phone intensified with the
dramatic arrest of Bryant that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I got word of the Seascape fire from local radio and soon thereafter
someone answering the Police 'Public Affairs' phone number (I forget the
person's name) was extremely helpful with what turned out to be detailed,
accurate information about the arrest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>CNN cut into its newscast-in-progress to put my phone report of the
arrest to air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So quick were we with
this news that ABC radio in Australia replayed my CNN report then had a
Tasmanian police spokesperson come on the line and confirm the CNN report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">After
participating in the media tour of the site on Monday I did several lengthy
audio reports live-to-air by phone, as soon as we got back into mobile phone
range.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we did an extensive video
report of the day's events and fed that to CNN by satellite on Monday
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also did a live-to-air
interview with the Premier of Tasmania via the Nine Network's satellite uplink
outside the Royal Hobart Hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Late
on Monday afternoon the CNN presence in Hobart increased by 100 per cent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hugh Williams, an expatriate Australian who
is one of CNN's best cameramen and video editors (based in Berlin), happened to
be in Sydney on holidays and joined me to take on the roles of field producer
and video editor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuesday was a case
of more of the same: numerous audio reports live-to-air by phone (especially re
the bedside court hearing in which Bryant was charged with one count of murder ‑
I have been told that again ABC radio in Australia used CNN's report as its
first news of this development); an extensive video report fed by satellite
that night; and a live cross in which the CNN anchor questioned me about the
day's events, this via the Nine Network's satellite uplink outside the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On the Wednesday,
CNN aired a live satellite feed of the memorial service, for which I provided
commentary via phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CNN intended to
take the first half-hour of the service live before switching to its regularly
scheduled interview program Larry King Live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But as the service unfolded CNN decided to continue airing the whole
memorial service and to delay Larry King Live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again, we did an extensive video report of the day's events and fed it
by satellite that night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we did
another live cross from outside the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We cut back on our
coverage on the Thursday and returned to Sydney on the Friday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I am told by my
colleagues in Atlanta that between Sunday afternoon and Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The Media View<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">morning
(Australian time) the Port Arthur Massacre topped virtually every one of CNN's
news bulletins (on the hour every hour and sometimes on the half-hour).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Never before had any event in Australia saturated CNN's programming to
this extent.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVALUATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the above
background you will notice a recurring theme of co-operation: the directory
assistance operator, the taxi driver, the Ansett executive, the PR person at
Port Arthur, various police spokespersons (including some from interstate who
helped handle media inquiries), WIN TV, the Premier of Tasmania, the Nine
Network (re use of its satellite uplink) ‑ to which I would like to add:
various spokespersons for the Royal Hobart Hospital, and organisers of the
memorial service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Neither Hugh
Williams nor I could recall a story either of us had worked on where we had
received such widespread co-operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And colleagues at CNN HQ in Atlanta who had direct dealings with people
in Tasmania were similarly struck by the co-operation given to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Some weeks after
the massacre, Geoff Easton, the Media Liaison for the Tasmanian Police, asked
me to evaluate ‑ from my perspective ‑ the Police-Media co-operation during the
event, and I wrote that Hugh Williams, myself and our colleagues in Atlanta had
"found:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to police spokespersons;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of police spokespersons; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of police spokespersons;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to be excellent ‑
as good as we have encountered anywhere in the world, and Significantly better
than in most places."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
assessment still stands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Media
Skills Training that I do for private ‑ and public-sector clients around
Australia — including commissioned officers from all state police services and
the Australian Federal Police — I stress that willing co-operation with the news
media, where and when possible (as opposed to reluctant co-operation or no
co-operation at all), is more likely to contribute to a desirable outcome for
you in the news media's treatment of you and/or your organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This was certainly
the case in CNN's coverage of the Port Arthur Massacre, vis a vis the Tasmanian
Police. They came across as in-control, competent, professional, effective and
thorough ‑ they got the culprit, got him reasonably quickly, got him alive, and
kept him alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They built an ultimately
overwhelming case against him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they
did all of this in the midst of what were, for all of them, uniquely
challenging circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Following are some
different examples of police co-operation that CNN encountered ‑ and how they
contributed to a desirable outcome for police in CNN's coverage:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
recording that was put on the Police 'Public Affairs' phone number, giving
additional numbers to call, including mobile numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This sent a very clear signal of police wanting to co-operate with the
news media, rather than obstruct them or be indifferent to them, in their role
of getting accurate, up-to-date information to a shocked and curious public
around the nation and around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This could only have helped Police get the Press 'on-side' at the
outset.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
media tour of Port Arthur within a few hours of Bryant's arrest on the Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This was excellent in its timing and its conduct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most media people understood why they could
not get into the scene any earlier ‑ a heavily armed suspected mass murderer
was still holed-up at Seascape, and even after his arrest bodies were still
being searched for at Seascape, some bodies were still in place in Port Arthur,
forensic investigations were still going at various sites in and around Port Arthur,
etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But by not keeping the media waiting days before they were allowed
access to the scene, organisers of this tour denied journalists the time in
which to become suspicious and to start wondering (perhaps on air or in print)
what was really going on in there and what might police have been covering
up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always remember, journalists are
journalists and they are paid to be curious, sceptical and suspicious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This was highly considerate of the tour
organisers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of all the stops on the
tour, this was the one where TV reporters would most want to do stand ups ‑ not
because TV reporters are all ghouls, but because the Cafe was the centrepiece
of the massacre and visually summed up the story more than any other site ‑
witness the words of my own stand up (and I assume most other stand ups were
similarly worded):<o:p></o:p></div>
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"The first and the worst of the carnage
happened here ‑ 20 people killed in this Cafe just behind me ‑ another four
people killed outside."<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But something
especially co-operative happened at this stop by the Cafe .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were originally taken to a spot about 100
meters from the Cafe and told to stay behind some invisible line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reporters and their camera crews started
doing their stand ups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I noticed
that where we were meant that the reporters' faces were in shade ‑ and the Cafe
was in bright sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This posed a
difficult light balancing act for both the camera and the camera operator, as both
the shaded face and the brightly lit Cafe needed to be seen clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After discussing this with my camera
operator, and him confirming that the light difference was a real problem, I
approached Roger Henning, a crisis management expert who had been hired by the
Tasmanian Government and who was accompanying the media tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew he had a background in TV and that he
would understand our problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He quickly
consulted with the police officers there and they agreed to the TV crews moving
15 or 20 meters closer to the Cafe so the reporters' faces were in the same
bright sunshine as the Cafe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The move
did not impinge on the police work still going on inside the Cafe and it helped
the TV crews considerably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had this
situation been handled differently by police it could have caused totally
unnecessary upset and antagonism between the media and police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(Roger Henning was also responsible for getting the Premier to come
down to the Nine Network satellite uplink outside the hospital late on the
Monday night to be interviewed live on CNN.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jack Johnston's co‑operation with the media on the tour of Port Arthur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Special mention has to be made of Johnston's commendable
efforts as something of a 'host' on this tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was patient and good humoured in answering the never-ending stream of
questions from the media ‑ many of the questions repetitive (eg, the 456 times
he was asked to spell his last name!).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He was
equally commendable in his willingness to give (and sometimes repeat) sound
bite explanations of what had happened at the various stops on the tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 'sound bite' I mean the concise,
articulate, descriptive summaries that TV reporters always want from people
they are, interviewing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(They are also
known as 'grabs'.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Johnston's
explanation of the fate of the Mikacs was the classic 'win-win' sound
bite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a 'win' for the media
because it gave them a concise description of the demise of the 'most tragic'
of all the tragic deaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was a
'win' for the Tasmanian Police in that it showed them to be articulate,
in-control, giving information to the public in a timely and full fashion with
the perfect balance between forthrightness, matter-of-factness and
understandable, restrained emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now
use this sound bite in many of my Media Skills Training courses as a
near-perfect example of the genre:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"It's our understanding that the mother was carrying the
three-year-old baby when they were both shot, and the six-year-old ran away
trying to escape but was shot in the process."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A closing word on
Johnston's handling of this tour: when it was all over and the Press buses
were, about to leave, he came aboard the bus I was on, thanked all the media
people and complimented them on their conduct and co-operation ‑ and many of
those present returned the compliment to him in words and in applause!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In more than 25 years in journalism in many
different parts of the world, I have never witnessed anything comparable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of course, there
were some negatives ‑ but one has to push the memory to recall them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two that caused some confusion for CNN were
the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Late
Sunday night/early Monday morning, we were given different death tolls from
different police spokespersons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
memory, one senior officer, on camera, said 33.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then another senior officer ‑ also on camera ‑ said 32, and added
something like: 9 don't know where the 33 came from."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the person on the Police 'Public Affairs'
phone number was saying one of these figures or the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From memory, this confusion seemed to linger
for a couple of hours and we were in the position of having to report, in
several phone updates during this period, a death toll of "32 or 33 ‑ with
different police spokespersons giving the different figures."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Similarly,
and around the same time period, we were getting conflicting information on the
countries of origin of the dead and injured ‑ obviously, very important
information for CNN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The confusion was
between information coming from either a senior police spokesperson on camera
or the person answering the Police 'Public Affairs' phone number, and a fax
sent to WIN TV by the police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were
one or two countries mentioned in one set of information and not in the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there were one or two countries listed
only under 'dead' in one set of information and only under 'injured' in the
other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Such confusions
are totally understandable in the circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact it impressed me that we were getting
such precise information so early in the piece anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure that most members of the media, and
most of the public, would have accepted such relatively minor confusion when it
appeared that police were trying to get the fullest possible information to the
public as quickly as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
these confusions might be of interest to the police in revealing loopholes in
their informational chain of command in the turmoil of that late Sunday
night/early Monday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">CNN was very pleased with its coverage of the
Port Arthur Massacre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It considers that,
overall, it relayed information quickly an accurately to a global audience
which was extremely interested in what was ‑ by any an every measure ‑ a major
international new event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The extent,
timeliness and accuracy of CNN's reporting would not have been possible without
the co-operation of all officials involve in the drama ‑ especially the
Tasmanian Police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by virtue of their
considerable co operation with CNN, all such officials were able to make what I
am sure was a very positive impact for themselves and their organisation on
CNN's hundreds of millions of viewers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moreover, the event was an object lesson in proving that the media and
emergency service can co-operate, to their mutual benefit ‑ the media get what
they need, and through the media emergency services portray themselves in a
positive light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As I wrote to
Geoff Easton in response to his requested evaluation a few weeks after the
event (and this was written from my dual perspectives as a CNN reporter and a
Media Skills Trainer):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"… Overall I would rate the Tasmania
Police's performance, vis-a-vis the Press in the Port Arthur shootings, a 99
out of 100."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-51372232716435412262020-04-20T14:44:00.000-07:002020-04-20T16:21:10.113-07:00Hammond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VivIBVEHTmDYBhGLk5UN9xa3x4QB2G-J" target="_blank">Here is the witness statement from Chris Hammond.</a> It is consistent with Martin's alibi and description of his movements on the day, and proves conclusively that Martin could not have shot David & Sally Martin inside Seascape. This is a key element of Martin's conviction per page 64 of the Court Document, being, “The Crown case is that in that intervening time, that is, between 11.45 and 12.40, Martin Bryant shot and<br />
killed Mr. and Mrs. Martin”. Martin was nowhere in the area at 11.45, and <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W8CYG0048PfLfznYC-u4XpxAwbvAvH8Q" target="_blank">Andrew Simmons' witness statement</a> places the gun shots at 10.40 am, not 11.45-12.45.<br />
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Chris confirms that Martin drove his distinctive yellow Volvo into the petrol station between 10.30 and 10.45 am. He paid cash - notes - for $15.00 in petrol, then drove off "in the direction of Port Arthur". For those who aren't familiar with the area, here's a map of the peninsula:<br />
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Now, Martin left home shortly after Petra - about 9.00 am, arriving at Taranna about an hour and a half later. So the timeline so far is consistent. Can you see how, at 10.40 am, when Martin was allegedly several kilometres further south, making the gun shots that Andrew Simmons heard, he wasn't even at the petrol station at Taranna yet.<br />
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As you can see, I've used Google Maps to helpfully notate the times and distances involved. Zoom in on Taranna:<br />
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The Taranna petrol station is north of the turnoff to Nubeena and Roaring Beach. So from the petrol station, both Port Arthur and Nubeena are the same direction (south). All Chris is saying is, Martin continued south, not necessarily that he went directly to Port Arthur. So far, Chris' witness statement confirms Martin's alibi and destroys the prosecution case on the timing.<br />
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Martin then makes a right hand turn into Nubeena Road, toward Roaring Beach. Another 30 minutes or so, it's now 11.00 - 11.15am. Martin says in the police prison interview that he went swimming "when it warmed up, about 11" so this is about right also. The water was cold, and he didn't spend long in it. Call it 30 minutes to walk to the water, have a swim, dry off, spot two men in short wet-suits further down the beach, then get back to the car, he is leaving the beach about 11.45 - the time the prosecution alleges he was shooting David & Sally Martin.<br />
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From the beach, back to Nubeena it's almost 20 minutes, so call it before 12.30.<br />
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Martin says that he pulled over in Nubeena at the take-away shop near the school and bought a coffee and toasted sandwich. He says he paid with coins from the glove box because he had no cash money left. This is important.<br />
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I can't determine if the owners were ever interviewed by police, but if so, their statements have never been submitted to the court. The take-away isn't there any more, and the only names I have are Dave or David Doherty-Popello and someone named Barrie or Bernie. I'm not sure if these are the people who ran the take-away, but if you have any information, anything at all, please set up a free, encrypted email account at www.protonmail.com and send me an email at o_zim@protonmail.com - total anonymity assured. Your information, no matter how small, could join several other pieces together and break this case wide open.<br />
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Giving Martin 10 minutes to eat the sandwich and coffee, it's now just after 12.30 - an hour before the shots were fired at the Broad Arrow Cafe. He then drives counter-clockwise around the peninsula. It's only a ten minute drive to Port Arthur but in between, Martin's heart beats faster.<br />
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As he drives east, he thinks about Marian Larner, an older woman he was infatuated with, who lived with her husband Roger just south of Port Arthur. Martin had wanted his father to buy the farm next door, so he could be closer to her, but David & Sally Martin bought it instead. This was used later as a "motive" for Martin to kill David and Sally, but there is no evidence that he did. All we know is that he was hot for Marian, and wary of what Roger might say or do.<br />
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Thinking about Marian but afraid of her husband, he keeps going, driving past the Port Arthur Historic Site. He slows down as he drives past, but he remembers that the new government operator has installed a toll booth and entry fee. This is how Martin describes it, I strongly recommend that you read the <a href="http://portarthurinquiry.blogspot.com/p/interview-transcript.html" target="_blank">interview transcript</a> for yourself.<br />
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<i>"I didn't go, definitely didn't go to Port Arthur. I wouldn't pay the money to go in. I would've (gone in) if I didn't have to pay."</i><br />
<i>"The only place I stopped was Nubeena and I drove right round..."</i><br />
<i>"I drove straight past that place (the Corolla in the forecourt of the PAHS turnoff) and I just drove past there"</i><br />
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After he drives north, past Seascape and arrives at the Fortescue Bay turnoff, just south of Taranna again, his memory begins to fail about 12.45 - almost an hour before the shootings happened. This is consistent with Rohypnol poisoning, and it's likely that Martin was drugged, his car was taken and he was left to die in the fire. It's important to note several questions about the BMW:<br />
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1. Martin always maintained that BMW was at Fortescue Bay, not the petrol station near Port Arthur.<br />
2. There was a man, a woman and a young child in the BMW. Martin describes them and Jamie also refers to the wife and child while on the phone to Terry McCarthy the police negotiator. What happened to the woman and child - this was NOT Zoe Hall in the Corolla.<br />
3. How did the BMW move from Seascape just after 12.45 to the Port Arthur toll booth, now containing Rose Nixon, Jim Pollard and Robert & Helene Salzmann?<br />
4. How did Martin's Volvo move from where he abandoned it at Fortescue Bay, to Port Arthur, pay the entry fee with money Martin didn't have?<br />
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These are not conspiracy theories. They are valid questions, supported by evidence the police presented to court and convicted Martin on. They deserve to be examined, because if there was a miscarriage of justice, then the real perpetrators are walking around free.<br />
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The victims and their families deserve the truth. Anyone with information about the old take-away in Nubeena is strongly encouraged to make contact. If Martin is guilty, he is in the right place and he can stay there. But if he didn't act alone, or if he was set up, then the real perpetrators are still walking around free.<br />
After Lindy Chamberlain and Sue Neil Fraser, its appropriate to examine all the evidence - all of it. yet the Port Arthur information is all locked away for another 75 years - 100 years in total. Why? Ivan Milat and Chopper Read both had media interviews, Chopper even published a book. Yet Martin and all his evidence is locked away from scrutiny as if it's something to be ashamed of.<br />
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The people deserve transparency from their government. That's part of the social contract.<br />
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And the only thing to be ashamed of is a miscarriage of justice.<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"><i>I know it was prior to 11am, I was in my front yard with my wife. It was very still on the day. I heard very clearly two shots ring out. They sounded as though it may have come from a rifle about the calibre of .22. The direction it came from was from the area of Seascape.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">See, the problem with the whole case is that Martin has an alibi for his travels on the day. He was served $15 petrol about 10.45am by Chris Hammond at Taranna. His witness statement:</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"><i>At around 10.30 am to 10.45 am a yellowy coloured Volvo came into the store car park for fuel. This vehicle was being driven by a male person. There were no other occupants in the vehicle. I did notice that the vehicle had a surf board on the roof. I would describe the male driving the vehicle as having long hair, as far as the colour of his hair goes I didn’t take any notice of what he was wearing, however he appeared to be quite tall and slim. This male got out of the Volvo and asked me for fifteen dollars worth of petrol. I put the petrol in and he paid me with a ten and five dollar note, after which he headed off in the direction of Port Arthur. I don’t think he had a wallet as all I saw was him pulling out the fifteen dollars from his trouser pocket.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Now, while Chris says the man (most likely to be Martin Bryant and not a body double, since this statement confirms Martin’s own testimony in the prison interview) drove off in the direction of Port Arthur, this is simply indicating South on the Arthur Highway. If Martin soon afterwards turned right onto Nubeena Road (as he said in his testimony), then Chris would not have seen that part of the journey - particularly if he was busy serving other customers. Hammond’s witness statement does not conclusively support the crown case.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">After swimming nude for a short time in the cold water at Roaring Beach, Martin says he went back to Nubeena and got a coffee and toasted sandwich at the shop near the school. It’s gone now, and my queries to the Historical society haven’t revealed anything about the operators. If they can confirm Martin was there about 12.15pm that Sunday, it proves Martin has an alibi.</span></div>
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Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-9293684259916656322019-06-29T03:49:00.001-07:002019-06-29T05:47:25.095-07:00Volvo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Martin Bryant drove a distinctive yellow Volvo 240 sedan, often with a surfboard strapped to the roof racks. The car is one of several strange vehicles associated with the Port Arthur Massacre.<br />
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Although not in the court documents, Mike Bingham’s book Suddenly One Sunday says that an unnamed witness saw him driving south at Eaglehawk neck, "bouncing around in the drivers seat as he moved to the music on the stereo".<br />
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About 10.45am, it was seen by Chris Hammond, who served him fifteen dollars petrol at the Taranna petrol station. He noted it was strange because the blonde man didn't appear to use a wallet - he pulled the notes out of his pants pocket. After that, everything becomes very confusing.<br />
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At the trial, the prosecutors allege Bryant drove south from Taranna to Seascape, shot David & Sally Martin between 11.00am and 12.00pm, then drove south, past the Port Arthur Historic Site to Roger Larner's farm. He allegedly spoke to Roger for a few minutes, then drove away north, back to Port Arthur where he shot up the cafe, abandoned his yellow Volvo at the toll booth, stole a gold BMW, kidnapped Glenn Pears and then took refuge inside Seascape. Shortly thereafter, the police set fire to the BMW, allegedly to prevent him using it to escape, and settled in for a siege. Here's what it looks like on the map:<br />
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The problem with this is the testimony of Andrew Simmons who heard the two shots quite clearly "prior to 11am." Chris Hammond served Martin at 10.45am at Taranna Petrol Station, so the prosecution timeline is not accurate at all. He was nowhere in the area when the shots were fired.<br />
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There are two conflicting rebuttal accounts, which overlap and contradict the official version, but not each other. These are from Martin Bryant himself, in the prison interview, and "Jamie", the hostage-taker who spoke to police negotiator Terry McCarthy on the phone from inside Seascape. Both accounts take a bit of reading and arrangement, because neither witness just tells the story straight, they tend to wander off on tangents, either of their own making or prompted by the police. Let's start with Martin himself:<br />
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Read the whole <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1992705788"></span>prison interview here<span id="goog_1992705789"></span></a>.<br />
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Martin's conversation with the police wanders all over the place. You might need to read it through two or three times to process the sequence of events.<br />
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Martin woke up with Petra, had breakfast and a shower, before she allegedly left at 8.00am, allegedly to see her parents. Martin planned to go to Roaring Beach for a swim. He says he left about 11.00am, 'once it warmed up', however if you read the context, it appears he is talking about arriving at the beach about 11.00am. There's no way he could have been seen in so many places before 11.00am if he was still at home. What was he going to do for 3 hours, alone in the house?<br />
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In the trunk of the Volvo are his AR-15 rifle and a USAS-12 shotgun. Martin says he had never fired the shotgun, he was scared of the recoil and was afraid of a misfire. The AR15, he had fired at paper targets in the State Forest near Murdunna. He was afraid of the noise of the rifle as well, afraid the locals would call the police. There were still 8 or 9 rounds in the magazine. His third firearm, an AR10 in .308 was in Terry Hill's gun shop for repairs, because Martin had no idea what kind of ammunition it needed, and he had broken it.<br />
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The drive from New Town to Taranna is an hour and fifteen minutes, give or take. If Martin left shortly after Petra, then the timeline makes sense. Martin says he stopped for a coffee in Sorrell, so add ten minutes, round it off to an hour and a half, an hour forty-five. Say Martin started driving about or just before 9.00am (give him time to put the surfboard on the roof of the Volvo), that puts him at Taranna petrol station at 10.45am, right when Chris Hammond says he was there.<br />
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Volvo full of petrol, Martin then says he drove west to Nubeena and Roaring Beach - a 28 minute drive, arriving there about 11.15 - close enough to the time he says at the start.<br />
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It's autumn, in the Southern Ocean, so he doesn't swim for very long - the water is cold and he doesn't have a wetsuit or any swimmers - or a towel. A few minutes in the water, call it 11.30 and he is heading back to Nubeena for a toasted sandwich and a coffee at the shop near the school - 15 minutes drive back from the beach, call it 11.50am or 12.00pm and he is ordering a snack and coffee.<br />
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Ten minutes to have the food made and eaten, he is back on the road before 12.30pm. Martin says he didn't visit Roger Larner, hadn't seen him in years. He slows down as he passes the Port Arthur Historic site, good memories there of him as a kid, causing trouble, shoplifting, just kid stuff. But now things have changed, there's a toll booth and he has no money - he spent his last paper money on petrol and paid for the Nubeena food with coins from the glove box.<br />
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"I would've gone in if I didn't have to pay" he says. "But I didn't have the money." It's roughly 12.20pm, he drives past and heads north up the Arthur Highway.<br />
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Martin's testimony is a little confusing here. It's possible he stopped in to Seascape on the way north, but there was nobody home. It's also possible he drove past, only returning to Seascape in the BMW. Either way, a few minutes north of Port Arthur, he arrives at the turnoff to Fortescue Bay about 12.30pm.<br />
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This remote, wind-swept intersection is an easy landmark. Waiting for him here was a gold BMW, containing a man, his wife and a baby girl. The <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CnnS82qFa71jWOFB69snSZVENyjUihgM" target="_blank">BMW belongs to Sidney Kenneth Nixon</a>, but Nixon wasn't driving it. He had loaned the car to a friend, Jim Pollard. Jim was holidaying in Tasmania with an "old army buddy", Robert Salzmann and his wife, Helene.<br />
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As Martin describes it, he decides to steal the BMW. He stops the Volvo, opens the boot and takes out the AR-15. He tells the man in the BMW, "I like your car, I want to take it", and gets all three out of the car, standing on the road. He bundles the man into the boot of the BMW, gets behind the wheel and drives in the direction it is pointing, south, back toward Seascape. He remembers skidding on some grass, getting out of the BMW to knock on the door of Seascape, but nobody was home. His next memory is "a vast explosion" and a fire which burned him badly. He was arrested by the police, tells Malcolm Scott that Petra was in the house, is operated on in hospital and then interviewed in prison. End of story. Either way, he has admitted to shooting nobody, and there is no evidence that he did.<br />
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When questioned by the police, Martin has no recollection of the cafe, the toll booth, the white corolla, where Glenn Pears was kidnapped and Zoe Hall killed.<br />
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Talking to police negotiator Terry McCarthy, "Jamie" tells a similar story, with added detail. The man's name is Rick, but Jamie persistently refuses to tell Terry what Rick's surname is, or that of his wife and child. Rick is 34, a lawyer from Melbourne, whose parents live in Tasmania. His wife is "high up in intelligence, higher than (Terry), university qualified." One interpretation of these phrases is that Rick's wife is a Government Intelligence officer, higher ranking than Terry. Another is that she is highly intelligent, smarter than Terry. It's difficult to know because Jamie seems intent on playing complex games with Terry, refusing to give straight answers and deliberately changing the subject, asking about the time or ending the conversation with promises to phone back.<br />
Jamie says that the wife put the child in the yellow Volvo, and was last seen driving AWAY, toward Fortescue Bay.<br />
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Note the times all this was happening - between 12.00 and 1.00pm. In the prison interview, Martin knows the BMW caught fire and assumes he lit it, because he was the only one there. He has no idea that the BMW didn't catch fire until just before 2.00pm, and the fire which caused his burns didn't start until 7.30am the next morning. He has a gap that spans eighteen hours - hours which include someone who looks like him speaking to Roger Larner (who did not recognise him as Martin), shooting up the Broad Arrow Cafe (where eyewitnesses Michael Sargent and Graham Collyer describe the shooter as having "a squashed nose, like a boxer" and "a lot of acne, a pitted face." The shooter then killed more people in the car park, drove to the toll booth, killed Robert and Helene Salzmann, Rose Nixon and Jim Pollard, took the BMW they were in and drove to Seascape where the BMW was set alight by Sargeant Fogarty (allegedly to deny the shooter transport if he tried to escape, but also conveniently erasing any DNA evidence left in the seats or on the steering wheel).<br />
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In the photos, note how far away from Seascape the BMW is burned out. Martin says he skidded on some grass, but that he also got out and knocked on the door about. If he parked the car all the way down there, it's a VERY long skid.<br />
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This begs the question. If Martin left his Volvo with Rick's wife at the Fortescue Bay turnoff about 12.30pm, how did it get to Port Arthur, eventually abandoned at the Toll Booth? How did the BMW get from Seascape to to Toll Booth, carrying Jim Pollard, Rose Nixon and the Salzmanns?<br />
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Interestingly enough, Martin answers that question in his interview.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Once again, lots of people are saying they saw you in the Broad Arrow Cafe on Sunday the 28th of April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">A. Mmm, that's untrue.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">WARREN</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">Q. It's untrue is it?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">A. Mmm.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">Q. And why do you say that Martin?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">A. Because I didn't, I drove straight past.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">Q. So how do you account for the car being there?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">A. That lady could've drove it down there. That one, the wife or girlfriend of the chap I took hostage 'cos I said to get into my, the Volvo.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">WARREN</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">Q. Martin.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13px;">A. Mmm. Like I was telling you before, it's, it's true.</span><br />
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Okay, let's take a step back for context.<br />
People who assume that Martin planned and executed the whole thing on his own, must admit that the police at Nubeena were decoyed away at the perfect time, by a fake drug stash tipoff at Saltwater River. When they arrived, Constables Hyland and Whittle found a jar of soap powder.<br />
So, if Martin planned the whole thing on his own, he must have planted it there shortly before the massacre. A few days at most, to make sure no tourists stumbled across it and moved the decoy.<br />
But Petra Wilmott says clearly that she was with Martin for the week before the massacre, including ANZAC Day. So either she was lying, or she was in on it. You can't have it both ways.<br />
If Petra was an accomplice, then it's plausible that there were others. Martin's 66-IQ doesn't provide for the military style planning of this operation, nor the sequential head shots in the cafe, firing from the right hip when Martin is left handed. Prisoners who spent time with Martin, playing chess with him have testified that he is 'dumb, so dumb. Thinks he is all hot, but doesn't know how dumb he is.'<br />
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Given the questions above, is it too much to accept that Martin had help? By people with access to military planning, and the unpublished phone number for Nubeena Police Station? There was no internet back then, everyone relied on the Yellow Pages and White Pages, but Tasmania had recently moved to eight-digit telephone numbers, and the Nubeena station number had not yet been put into the latest edition of the White and Yellow Pages.<br />
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Here's a plausible alternative to the official version, based on the information above and the eyewitness accounts:<br />
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Martin is asked to participate in the kidnapping at Fortescue Bay. Maybe he was told he was acting in a movie, maybe he was doing something Petra asked as a favour. Either way, he takes the BMW with Rick in it to Seascape, where Petra is waiting. Rick's wife drives the Volvo, turning into the Fortescue Bay turnoff to do a 3-point-turn, but instead of driving to Fortescue Bay, she completes the U-Turn and arrives at Seascape after Martin has been drugged with something like Rohypnol or Scopolamine.<br />
Both the BMW and the Volvo are now at Seascape, where witnesses see it and a blonde man acting rudely, encouraging them to leave in a hurry.<br />
The blonde man then takes the Volvo, drives to Roger Larner's and chats with him about buying cattle (remember, Roger's witness statement says that Roger didn't recognise the person as Martin until they identified themselves). The blonde body double then drives to Port Arthur, pays cash to get into the site and parks near the water. At some point about now, the BMW containing Jim Pollard, Rose Nixon, Robert and Helene Salzmann arrives at the Toll Booth and does a U-Turn, parking in the "IN" lane and blocking incoming traffic.<br />
The blonde man shoots up the cafe and car park, gets back in the Volvo and drives up to the Toll Booth where he rendevous with the BMW. Robert and Helene sit in the yellow car with the gunmna, talking to him as Nicholas Cheok and his mother arrive at the "IN" lane. Jim and Rose are in the BMW, making "shoo, shoo" motions with their hands as the blonde man and Robert get out of the yellow car and have an argument in the middle of the road. The blonde man walks around the car, takes out his rifle from the back seat (next to where Robert had been sitting), and shoots him in the chest. He then shoots Jim and Rose (in full view of Reba and Nicholas Cheok), drags Helene out of the Volvo and shoots her on the ground.<br />
He then takes the BMW, drives out of the PAHS and onto the Arthur Highway, where Jim Laycock has stepped out of the Kodak shop at the gunshots from the toll booth area. He sees the execution of Zoe Hall and the abduction of Glenn Pears from 4 meters away. I'll let you read his <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1huKXnnWF69d-PEgg-kcZwQMcuOinbtJd" target="_blank">witness statement for yourself</a>, but here's the kicker:<br />
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<i>On this Sunday the 28th April 1996, I did not recognise the male as Martin BRYANT. The</i><br />
<i>person I saw shooting appeared to be in the low twenties about 5’10 tall, it was impossible</i><br />
<i>to determine his build, (the coat was shapeless). His hair stood out, it was blonde, I thought it</i><br />
<i>was bleached blonde and possibly a female. His hair was shoulder length. His walking</i><br />
<i>appeared to be mannish.</i><br />
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So, here's the summary:<br />
Three eyewitnesses, two of whom knew Martin Bryant, did not recognise the shooter as him. Jim Laycock and Roger Larner both knew Martin, and Graham Collyer in the cafe described someone different. Lying in hospital on the floor below Martin's guarded bed, Graham offered to go up and identify the man who shot him. Police refused this request.<br />
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The media immediately and illegally published photos of Martin as the killer, embedding him image into the witnesses and overriding their memories. Weeks later, one of the witnesses gave a statement to the police, describing the clothes of the photo in the paper, which were completely different to the gunman's attire.<br />
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How did the cars get moved around, if Martin left the BMW at Seascape, and his Volvo at the Fortescue Bay turnoff? Did the police ever interview the owners of the cafe at Nubeena, to see if Martin indeed bought a toasted sandwich and a coffee there? If not, why not?<br />
What about the other vehicles at Port Arthur that day? There are <a href="http://portarthurinquiry.blogspot.com/2018/12/truck.html" target="_blank">questions around the Morgue truck</a>, the similar yellow Volvo that was seen inside PAHS after the shootings, and the black van with government plates that parked outside the Broad Arrow Cafe for several hours, then disappeared.<br />
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This is why a Royal Commission is needed - to answer these questions and determine if a miscarriage of justice has occurred. There is reasonable doubt and zero DNA evidence that Martin Byrant was in the cafe.<br />
The victims and their families deserve better than lies.<br />
They deserve the truth and the closure that will follow.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick is one of the most enigmatic minor characters in the whole Port
Arthur saga – perhaps more so than Jim Pollard and the Salzmann couple. He<span style="font-family: "calibri";"> is first introduced by ‘Jamie’ inside Seascape, when talking on
the phone to police negotiator Terry McCarthy:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Now we only had a brief conversation before an and um I just
want to clarify that everything that I got down before is right, alright<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yes everything yep.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Okay, now there are three people in in the cottages with you
or the cottage with you is that correct?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: That’s correct at the present yep.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: At the present. Okay.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yep.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: What do you mean by that?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Oh except I should say uh meself aren’t you going to class me as
a …… <span style="font-family: "calibri";">…..inaudible<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well, yeah I’m sorry I meant three persons other than
yourself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Arh and that’s Rick,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Inaudible<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Sally and David Martin who actually own the cottage. Is that
correct?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah that’s correct.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Now you were talking just a little bit about the um Rick
having come from <span style="font-family: "calibri";">Fortescue Bay. Can you just enlighten me as to what happened there?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah yeah, I got him and managed to get him his wife she he
wanted to participate um in the kidnapping in instead of his wife, I thought
alright quick<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Cough (gunshot)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: get in get into the car and I’ve got him as a hostage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Okay, okay now you were in you’re your car there were you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right. You’re in your car and you wha what pulled them up?
They were driving along in a car is that correct?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: That’s correct.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This is completely different to eyewitness accounts of another
kidnapping witnessed by Jim Laycock and others. The location is Fortescue Bay
turnoff (about 1 km north of Seascape), <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Next time Rick is mentioned is with the negotiation about who will be
in the helicopter:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: If you can get this helicopter I’ll I’ll want a ride in a
helicopter do you understand?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well I can assure y<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I’ll be happy I’ll I’ll just want I’ll leave Sally I’ll I’ll
want Sally to go with me and<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: and let I’ll free the rest of the host<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Wha what about Rick an um David?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Um<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: What about Rick and David?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Do you want me to take them instead?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well, no, no you you’re going to leave those Rick and David
behind are you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: what if we can’t get you to Adelaide?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Well the chap that I’ve got here um Rick he’s got um he’s from Melbourne
so ah um I mean you could drop Rick off but<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Uh hang on I thought you were going to leave Rick behind?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: What’s that?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: I thought you were going to leave Rick behind?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Ah.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: So you’re only going to fly in the helicopter with Sally
aren’t you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: yeah but Rick wants to he Rick had twenty past oh 7 o’clock
flight home you see tonight<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Oh I see.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: with his wife and um I mean Rick has to get back to Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right well we’ll<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: But er um he’s understand that I’m gonna phone his parents up<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: In Lauderdale<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: How old how old is Rick?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Lauderdale. Um Ricks 34.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Ricks 34. Did you say his parents are in Lauderdale?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: So he’s not he’s from Melbourne but he’s got parents here?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Uh that’s right.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I don’t want to worry my mum. What I’m going to do is is it
twenty to seven now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: No, it’s um I’ve got it at twenty eight minutes past six.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah.. What was your name, Rick was it or<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Terry.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie:1 Terry that’s right. Terry I’ll write that down now.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: While your writing that down have a think about um you know
we were talking a bit earlier on about um why you took Rick hostage or why you
kidnapped him and we never got round to you telling me why that happened.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Oh his. I’ll actually phone you for a change at twenty past
seven.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well that’s a long time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: That’s a long<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: That’s a long time and in the mean<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: that’s a long time you<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: in the meantime what<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I mean your you don’t often get these calls so I’ll actually
phone ya at twenty past<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Are you there?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Now. Jamie we were talking earlier on about ar Rick and the
fact that you kidnapped him from Fortescue Bay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: That’s correct. Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Do you want to tell me about that?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Not really no<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well you talked about you talked about ah his wife and er his
child and um we’re having difficulties locating his wife and child.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yes, she’s only 12 months old the little child I found out from
him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right. What from him?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Umm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right. What about his wife. Do you know anything about his
wife?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Um sh yeah I do.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I know<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Can you tell me something about it?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I know how high up in things she is. Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: I’m sorry.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I know how high up she is in the different areas.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: How how high up. What do you mean by that Jamie?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: In work, higher than what you are<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: the<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: the intelligence and everything university and everything.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Oh right, is she, shes only she er a university er<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Oh she’s passed that she’s got full time work but I’m not going
to let you know. I’m I’m more interested in this helicopter ride.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Cough (gunshot)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: and<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: unless ………..Inaudible………<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I I’ll phone you in an hour right<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: just before you go though<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah yeah yeah yes<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: just before you go you’re talking about you’re talking about
okay I can find out who you are. What about Rick? We’re having real problems
finding out about Rick. You prepared to tell me Rick’s surname.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Well he’s a lawyer if you want the truth. I’ll phone you back in
a hour right. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well how about you phone me back in say fifteen minutes with
Rick’s surname. That’s all I’m after. Okay.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Inaudible<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Everythings w everybodys well?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Everythinks fin, yes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Every is is Sally still with you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yes she’s still with me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Are you prepared to let me talk to Sally or<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Ah unfortunately um she’s down stairs with David now I’ve got um
another chap up with me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Okay Rick. Now did you say to me when we er last chatted that
you were going to tell me Rick’s surname.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Ah yeah Rick oh but oh but na na don’t worry about that.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well you you did tell me that<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: What’s that got to do with the helicopter?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well as I said before we need to ah we ne need to know
exactly who’s going to be on board the aircraft and um we’ve got to we’ve got
to allow for every possibility you may change plans ah later on and decide not
to take Sally<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Oh yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: and take Rick instead and also w we’re having problems
locating Rick’s wife.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Where is she?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well we don’t know because we’re not real sure who Rick is.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Oh I don’t know she went round to um to Fortescue Bay.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: How do you know that er Jamie?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: She headed round that way.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: She headed around that way?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah. Couldn’t get<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right. Well cough (gunshot)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: away quick enough<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: well cough if if um if Rick’s there would you mind asking<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Well<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: him what his surname is if you don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: apparently um she’s had a pretty hard life until she met um
thing a ma bob<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: She<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: here.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Rick and um he’s great she’s a great lady they’re both
professional people.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right wha do what does ah what does she do?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Um well I can’t tell you that.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Why not?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Cause I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Oh right I see fair enough. Um cough well okay lets talk
about this helicopter and I and I keep harping on it but you’ve got to understand
that there are various things that have to be done in relation to organising
the helicopter in relation to flait flight plans and what ‘ave you. Now you
told me that the helicopters got to land so at the front of the cottage is that
right?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Anywhere it doesn I’ll see it I’ll actually hear it probably a<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: cough (gunshot)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: a few miles away so<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: don’t worry about that ah as long as it’s on the property
somewhere<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">-<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah. While I’m on the phone um Ricks wondering how did the ABC
actually<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">lay get in touch with me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Rick was Rick wondering that?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well we’re still trying to find that out ourselves. Um<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: ……..Inaudible…….it’s strange<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: we’re still trying to find that out I I thought you might be
able to to help me out with that did she ah mention to you how she’d come about<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: No I didn’t actually ask her<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: You didn’t? Ah what did you talk about?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: She asked who I was and where I came from and<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Cough did you tell her?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: A no I didn’t. I said…….Inaudible…….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Did you tell her?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Inaudible<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: that you didn’t want to speak to her<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Yeah that’s right and I said please don’t phone again.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: And what did she say say there?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I actually forget now that was a few hours ago.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Right, right okay fair enough. Well ah ah you you’ve got Rick
there<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: with me<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: do you know his surname? Has he told you what his surname is
or?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: No not yet.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well would you ask him for me please?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Ah what’s that that’s not important.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: Well it is for us because ya know we gotta find we gotta try
to find his family. Okay we’re trying to establish where his wife and child
have gone<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: Inaudible<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCarthy: and ah it’s gonna greatly assist us it’s only going to take
two seconds of your time to ask him and just tell me what it is.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie: I’ll phone you b back<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">-<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick isn’t mentioned again, the phone battery goes flat and in the
morning, the cottage burns down. Martin Bryant crawls out of the fire and is
arrested. In the ashes are the bodies of David & Sally Martin and Glenn
Pears.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So let’s add up what we have learned from this evidence:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick is not Glenn Pears.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick has a wife and child, who were left at the Fortescue Bay turnoff
with Martin’s Volvo.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick is a lawyer from Melbourne, 34 years old.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick’s parents are alive, they live in Lauderdale, near Hobart,
Tasmania.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick’s wife never contacted the police about her ordeal, or the theft
of her husband’s car.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick’s wife finished university and possibly has a connection to
Intelligence, depending on how you interpret Jamie’s words. “High up in
intelligence” could mean she is smart, it could also mean she is a high ranking
operative in the intelligence community. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick’s wife wanted to participate in the kidnapping.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Neither Jamie nor Rick wanted the police to know Rick’s surname. Rick’s
identity seems a mystery to Terry McCarthy, and Rick was not worried about his
family’s whereabouts or safety.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There are several differences between the kidnappings of Rick and Glenn
Pears:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick was taken at the Fortescue Bay turnoff. Glenn at the Petrol
Station outside Port Arthur, which are 4km apart, on opposite sides of
Seascape.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Zoe Hall was shot and killed when Glenn Pears was kidnapped, Rick’s
wife and child were left unharmed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rick was driving a gold BMW, Glenn Pears was driving a white Toyota
Corolla.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Timing from Martin’s testimony indicated Rick was kidnapped about
12.30pm. Glenn Pears about 2.10pm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When Martin was put into the ambulance, Constable Malcolm Scott went
with him as security. Here’s part of his witness statement:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">During the course of escorting BRYANT to the Royal Hobart Hospital
conversation occurred with him in the rear of the ambulance. I recorded this
conversation in my note book as it occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The ambulance officer said, What’s your name? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">BRYANT said, Martin BRYANT and asked<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What’s the point of all this? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The ambulance officer said, I preserve life, Martin. Have you been drinking
alcohol? BRYANT said, A bit, it hurts. I want to get out of here. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">BRYANT said, Where is she? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I said, Who? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">BRYANT said, Petra, Petra did she get out of the fire? Petra’s my
girlfriend. We always stick together. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I said, Was Petra in the fire? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">BRYANT said, Yes, she was in the house.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">BRYANT made further comments but his speech was incoherent. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The ambulance officer asked questions in relation to BRYANT’S medical
situation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So in his agonised and disoriented state, Martin says that Petra was in
the house with him, but makes no mention of Rick, Glenn, David or Sally. When
interviewed by the police, he relates a similar story to Jamie’s description of
the Rick kidnapping. In the snippet videos posted on YouTube, few people
realise that when Martin is talking about kidnapping, he is talking about
Fortescue Bay (Rick), NOT Glenn Pears.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. And after you left Roaring Beach, where'd you go then? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Umm, dunno, I stopped ahh, at umm, Nubeena and got a coffee and I
think I got a toasted sandwich too. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Do you remember where that was? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I was at the shop there, it's a little shop near the school. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. A little shop near the school you got a toasted sandwich and a cup
of coffee? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. What'd you do then? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Then I left and drove around past Port Arthur and went and, went in
to see the Martins. Mmm. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Was there anyone else there when you ahh, called in? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. No, I umm, unfortunately I held up a car, I took ahh, I saw this car
I liked and got umm, held up the person in the car and kidnapped him. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Warren: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Kidnapped him? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Mmm. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paine: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. When you say held up. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. That was actually past the Martins. Ohh actually, that was on the
corner of Palmers Lookout. No I didn't really, didn't know whether I'd let you
know you're not gonna let anyone else know. You're not gonna let anyone else
know. Yeah, no, I stopped the car, I was in the Volvo, I stopped the car on the
corner, there was a nice looking BMW and I asked them to get out of the car but
the... <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. How many people were in it? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. There was a child in there, in the back and a lady and the man. The
man, I got him out the car, I had my gun with me and I said I want to take your
car, so I took his car. I got, then his wife or girlfriend got into the Volvo
with the child and I left, I drove off. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. So you drove away in the BMW? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Yes. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. With another male person? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Yeah, he was in the boot. I put him in the boot of the car. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">-<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Martin, just back to the BMW. How did this guy get to get in the
boot? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I put him in the boot because I had a gun. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Which gun did you have? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I had the umm. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Can Mr Warren hold it up? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. That AR15. You see if people didn't do these unfortunate things, you
guys wouldn't have a job. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Well there's a lot of truth in that Martin, let me tell you. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Warren: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. That one there? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Yes. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. That was the one. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. This is the one. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. It's a sweet little gun. Because it's so light. How light is it? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Can you remember what you said ahh, this fellow? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Hey mate, can you get out of your car please, I'm gonna take your
car. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Did, and you had this pointed at him did you? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Yeah I had it pointed at him. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Right. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. And moving it backwards and forwards with his wife and child too. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paine: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Was the gun loaded? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Yeah the gun was loaded, yeah had about eight, nine rounds in it.
Mmm. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. And where did this take place Martin sorry? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. At the Fortesque Bay turnoff, just, ohh about three or four minutes
away from the Martin's farm. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. To which side of ... <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. That was. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. ... The Seascape is Fortesque Bay turnoff? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Ahh, before you go to Seascape on the way to, on the way to Hobart. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. So it's on the Hobart side of Seascape? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Mmm. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Right. And where did you drive then? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I drove full speed, it was about, I was going about 140 Ks up the
road and went into Seascape. Just drove down there in the BMW. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Warren: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Where, can you remember where you drove when you went into Seascape?
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I remember skidding on some grass and, I had a heap of petrol, had
some petrol with me, I put some petrol in the BMW. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paine: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. And what happened then? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. Well what happened then, I knocked on the door to see the Martins
but there was no answer. And what happened is I remember the explosion. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Where was ... <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I think, I don't know whether I put the car on, lit the car up or
not. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Sorry? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. I don't know whether I lit the car up or not but there was an
explosion. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Q. Where was the man that was? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A. He must've been trapped in the boot, the hostage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Look how far away from the house the BMW is - if Martin was knocking on the door, there's no way he would have been burnt. And we know his burns came from the house fire, not the BMW fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So Martin remembers kidnapping Rick, leaving his wife and child beside
the Volvo, driving back to Seascape and his next memory is the explosion of
fire at 7.30am the next morning. His memories of the entire afternoon and night
have been wiped. Or he was asleep, drugged with something like Rohypnol.
Remember in the ambulance, he said Petra was in the house? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Was she there just after the kidnapping, give him a Mickey Finn and
then leave before the shooting began at 1.30pm?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Did Martin tell Jamie the story of his actions under the influence of
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Was Rick the one shooting out the upstairs windows while Jamie was on
the phone? The noise is transcribed as a cough but acoustic analysis shows it
is a SKK rifle (probably the one owned by David & Sally’s son, Glen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Either way, Rick and Petra weren’t in the house when it burned down.
There was ample time at night for them to leave on foot, leaving David, Sally
and Glenn dead inside, and Martin drugged on a bed downstairs. They could
easily have slipped down the coast and into the caravan park, posing as
tourists. The road was blocked off but the area around Seascape is heavily
forested, it wouldn’t be difficult to sneak through slowly and quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Or who decoyed the police away with a fake drug stash tipoff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A royal commission is required to investigate the entire matter. Hospital
blood tests on Martin Bryant would reveal traces of any drugs in his system.
DNA from the Solo can and utensils the shooter left in the café would prove
either way if Martin was there or not. He said that he never went into Port
Arthur that day, because he couldn’t afford the entry fee. Instead, he slowed
down, drove past and went to see if the Martins were home at Seascape. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seriously. Who memorises their passport number?</div>
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The only time you need it is when filling those little arrival cards on the aeroplane. You hand it over, they scan it, stamp it, you keep it safe. Who on earth is going to memorise the number?</div>
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The Port Arthur shooter.</div>
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When the police examined the abandoned Volvo at the toll booth, they discovered Martin Bryant's passport in the glove compartment.</div>
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When Terry McCarthy was on the phone negotiating with the shooter inside Seascape, the disjointed conversation went like this:</div>
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<em>McCarthy: Now you’ve given me your name as Jamie and ar we both know that that’s not correct or you’ve told me it’s not correct. Are you prepared now to give me your correct name?</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: Not really no I</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Why not?</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: I’ll tell wha right on seven o’clock in the morning I’ll give you my I’ve got my passport number and I’ll passport on me um</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Well you prepared to give me your</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: passport number?</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: Shit could be.</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Have you got your passport there?</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: um in the glovebox. No no but it could be in my glovebox in the car but ah</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Where’s your car now?</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: Ah I’ve got a photocopy of it in my wallet but I’ll phone I want you to guarantee that you’ll have one in the morning early</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Well look ugh I can’t guarantee anything until you start you know start playing it straight with me.</em></div>
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The conversation goes off on a tangent, with Jamie talking about helicopters, then Terry says he will call back at twenty past eight.</div>
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When he does call, Jamie is agitated. He has seen a police officer crawling in close, and tells Terry to pull him back. There's a twenty minute break, then Terry calls back. They talk about Sally Martin, then Jamie gets back to his request for a helicopter:</div>
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<br /><em>Jamie: I’m just wondering when this helicopters gonna arrive. Is it still gonna be in the morning?</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Well, yeah we were talking about the morning weren’t we cause it was going to make things a lot easier ah organising a helicopter er ah ah that can fly during daylight hours.<br /><br />Jamie: Well that’s fine with me if it’s fine with you and your boys.</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Well we’ll working on that, we’ll work on that but as I said I still need some real information as far as ah being able to lodge ah flight plans an and what have you and um I know you talked about a passport earlier on that you had a copy in your wallet</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: Yeah yeah yeah</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: of your passport</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: That’s right. Yeah</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Now if you don’t want to tell me your name that’s fine but how about giving me your passport number and we can do a check on that?</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: I think it’s H024967 if I can remember it cause I travelled quite a lot overseas an most an um travel agencies know me around town me around Hobart I should say so</em></div>
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<em>McCarthy: Right H024967</em></div>
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<em>Jamie: Yeah I think that’s the number but um</em></div>
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So what does this tell us? The shooter knew Martin's passport number, and knew that it was in the Volvo. He also says there was a photocopy in his wallet.</div>
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Martin Bryant didn't use a wallet. Petra's witness statement says he kept his cash in a drawer in the house. When putting $15 petrol in the Volvo at Taranna, Chris Hammond said he did not have a wallet, and Martin pulled the notes from his trouser pocket.</div>
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<br />Your passport is one of the most important documents you own. Who is going to leave it lying around in their unlocked car glove compartment? Okay, Martin had a 66-IQ, equal to an 11-year-old kid, so he might have made that kind of dumb security mistake. But if so, how did someone so dumb plan and execute such an effective military operation? Decoying the police away at the perfect time, making sequential head shots on different people at different ranges, shooting from the opposite hip, without using the scope or sights? </div>
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You can't have one without the other. Either it was all Martin, or it wasn't.</div>
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Talking about military style planning, here's something you might be interested to know. In the military, snipers aren't just experts at shooting, camouflage and field craft. A key part of a sniper team's role is observation. They get specific training to improve their memory. For example: <a href="https://science.howstuffworks.com/sniper10.htm">https://science.howstuffworks.com/sniper10.htm</a></div>
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Army Ranger Sniper details one training exercise called the KIMS game: </div>
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<em>...they would put different objects on the table: a bullet, a paper clip, a bottle top, a pen, a piece of paper with something written on it -- 10 to 20 items. You'd gather around and they'd give you, say, a minute to look at everything. Then you'd have to go back to your table and describe what you saw. You weren't allowed to say "paper clip" or "bullet," you'd have to say, like, "silver, metal wire, bent in two oval shapes." They want the Intel guys making the decision about what you actually saw.</em></div>
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The KIMS game that Army Ranger Sniper describes is played repeatedly throughout the two-month course. As time goes by, students are given more objects to look at and less time to look at them. To add to the challenge, the time between seeing the objects and reporting what they saw gets longer as the course goes on. By the end, they may see 25 objects in the morning, train all day, and then at night be asked to write down descriptions of all the things they saw. </div>
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<br />Now, I'm not saying that the shooter was a US Army Ranger Sniper. All I'm saying is that the evidence points towards the shooter having some key abilities that would be provided by formal military training, and utterly lacking by low-IQ, civilian Martin Bryant.</div>
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To make the strange factors easier to understand, I've written a novel that reads like a Tom Clancy or Lee Child thriller. The only difference is, I've used footnotes that reference the witness statements and court documents, so you can see that truth is indeed stranger than fiction:</div>
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A further 75 year embargo on the Port Arthur evidence.<br />
Here's the post from Paul Moder:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Note. AFTER I announced my intention to make a film about the Port Arthur Massacre in 2016, this video appears on YouTube confirming that all files from Port Arthur have been locked away in the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, under the highest restriction (E75) Police Commissioner's eyes only, for 75 years. This in addition to the 30 year court seal from 1996. Bryant, the survivors, police and most of you will be dead before this information is released to the public, if ever. Angry? You should be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Now ask yourself. I can make arrangements to visit Chopper Read, Ivan Milat or Malcolm Naden in prison. I can view the evidence that lead to their conviction. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Why not Martin Bryant?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">What are they hiding?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Did the police botch the investigation?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Is there a more plausible story than the official narrative</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Did the media lie to us all these years?</span></span>Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-87018424328108605092019-04-10T20:34:00.000-07:002019-04-14T20:04:24.909-07:00Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0aa35282-7fff-cfe1-ebc5-76e7f98e09dd" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a few short weeks, the media will again bring up Port Arthur as the anniversary of the massacre arrives. If you are a journalist, please read the facts below and compare them with what you are permitted to publish about Port Arthur. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The media will play on emotion, dance in the blood of the victims and re-traumatise the survivors as they praise John Howard and ignore the 5 mass shootings since 1996: Wedderburn, Lockart, Hectorville, Monash, Osmington. The past 22 years have seen the same number of mass shootings as the 22 years before Port Arthur. Then just this month, another mass shooting in Melbourne...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Port Arthur is not about media hype. The essence of the Port Arthur case is evidence.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifically, the lack of it. Set aside your emotions and look at the impartial evidence before you.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are the facts that the media conveniently ignore; if you are a journalist, ask your editor or producer if you can do a story on them and let me know the response:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was no examination of the evidence at Martin's "trial". After 5 months in solitary confinement, where he continued to plead not guilty, defence lawyer John Avery (since jailed for fraud and released) convinced his mother Carleen Bryant to tell Martin she wouldn't visit him, and he would rot alone in a concrete box unless he pled guilty. The "trial" was simply a summary of the prosecution case, followed by sentencing. Theatre. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no DNA evidence that Martin Bryant was in the cafe. The utensils and Solo can the shooter used would have saliva and fingerprints on them, but has never been released. Likewise, the tape from the video camera left in the cafe has never seen daylight. Does it show a different story to the official narrative?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rifle on the roof leads me to another. Here are two photos from the book Shadow Warrior by David Everett. Everett was an Australian SASR soldier who went to help the Karen rebels fight the communist Burmese government. Using his contacts in the military, he was able to purchase weapons and supplies for his new friends. Dave was a short, skinny bloke, so old mate in the white T-shirt is taller, about the right height for the Port Arthur shooter. If he grew his hair out, or even put on a wig (several of the eyewitness accounts, like Jim Laycock, said the shooter's hair looked like a wig), he ticks a lot of boxes. Especially when you see him holding a rare FN FAL with a scope on it, just like the one left on the roof of Seascape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The second photo is Dave himself, posing in Burma with a similar rifle, minus the scope. Dave was in prison at the time of the massacre, along with one of his accomplices James Reynolds. However, a third accomplice, called "Baz" in the book, was never officially arrested and remains at large. Is "Baz" this guy in the white t-shirt?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.45 at Taranna, Bryant then drove west to surf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A toasted sandwich and coffee at Nubeena, he passed PAHS between 12 and 12.30</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tape recording of Police officer McCarthy and "Jamie" contains clear gunshots in the background while Jamie was in the kitchen. Who fired those shots?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The recording also states that Jamie has another person inside the house called "Rick". Was it this Rick who was shooting from upstairs while Jamie was talking to McCarthy? Who is he and how did he escape the police cordon?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the toll booth, Nicholas Cheok saw Robert and Helene Salzmann sit in the yellow Volvo with the gunman and his hot rifle instead of running away like everyone else. They were talking, then arguing, then Robert stood in the middle of the road while the blonde gunman retrieved his rifle from the opposite side of the Volvo and shot him, Helene, Jim Pollard and Rose Nixon (whose husband owned the BMW the gunman was about to steal). Why would these 4 people meet the gunman, speak to him, then wait around to be shot while everyone else was running away? How are they connected to each other and what relationship did they have with Martin Bryant?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Pollard was driving the BMW that blocked entry traffic at the toll booth</td></tr>
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He had known Martin for years, and said the shooter was not him. His witness statement is available on the menu of this blog.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Graham Collyer was shot in the neck inside the cafe. He describes the shooter as having "a lot of acne, a pitted face." In contrast, Martin has a smooth, creamy complexion. Graham's witness statement is also linked on the menu.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brigid Cook survived being shot, and said in her witness statement that her memory had been influenced by the photos in the media. How many other witnesses had their memory affected by this phenomenon, ongoing research into crime and memory suggests a lot:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories">https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The newspaper photo in this post was stolen from Martin's house and illegally published before he was even charged with a crime. It tainted the memories of the witnesses and the public alike, yet the newspapers were never charged with anything from theft to attempting to influence a jury.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The emergency exit door to the cafe was locked, trapping people inside who were shot by the gunman. The same thing happened at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch in 2019. Neither shooter had opportunity to lock the doors before they opened fire, so who locked those doors and turned the rooms into a slaughterhouse?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the time of the cafe shooting, the only two police in the area were 30 minutes away at remote Saltwater River, where a soap powder stash had been phoned in as a hoax. Who placed the soap powder there? Not Martin - his girlfriend Petra Wilmot had been with him all week. And Nubeena police station had a new phone number that had not yet been published in white and yellow pages. How did the gunman obtain the new phone number?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What happened to Helen Harvey's Tatts shares? Martin's friend left him all her estate, but since both were managed by the Public Trustee, it is unlikely the two accounts were combined. So when Martin's estate was seized by the Government (denying him the means to afford a lawyer), Helen's lottery shares and the lucrative income they provide disappeared. These shares became much more valuable when Tatts floated in 2005. My application to the State Archives for details of the compensation payments have been refused, citing a 25-year moratorium. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The information about Tatts shares has been archived off the live internet. You have to use the Wayback Machine to access it: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060513172101/https://www.theage.com.au/ed_docs/tattersals.pdf"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">https://web.archive.org/web/20060513172101/https://www.theage.com.au/ed_docs/tattersals.pdf</span></a></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And before you dismiss this idea as fantasy, I'm not the only one thinking it. The Lee Child novel One Shot, made into a film called Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise, is about a man framed for a mass shooting that conceals an ulterior motive. As a trained statistician, I consider this explanation to be plausible and possible.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are more strange details about Port Arthur: The perfect morgue truck that was scrapped after the massacre was over; the media and surgery conferences that ensured medical care and hysterical media coverage at the right time; the unusual Sunday seminar for the top managers of the Historic Site, ensured they were not on the premises when the shooting started. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are no theories here, conspiracy or otherwise. These are facts, taken from the witness statements and court documents. Any trained journalist will seek answers to these questions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The best way to blow conspiracy theory out of the water is to produce evidence and have it examined by independent experts. We are consistently calling for such an inquiry, yet instead of complying, the Tasmanian government recently digitised all the evidence, locking it away under the highest level of security, only visible to the police minister, for yet another 75 years. Given the conflicting eyewitness accounts and the questions listed above, we encourage you to ask, "what are they hiding?"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Port Arthur was a horrible crime against humanity. The victims deserve to have the guilty punished. But there is reasonable doubt that Martin Bryant was the killer, so a retrial is needed. All decent human beings will want the truth and justice to prevail, and the first step is to recognise the holes in the official story and re-open the inquest that Ian Matterson started.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All we want is the truth. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The victims deserve the truth. </span><br />
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It's wonderful to see so many people coming forward with information about their experiences during the Port Arthur Massacre. Honestly, whistleblowing has to be one of the most difficult decisions for a person to make, given the lies, fake news and corruption surrounding us, and the very real possibility of retribution. <br />
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I recently received a USB chip with information on it relating to Port Arthur. I hare read through the first two ZIP files, linked below. I recommend that you download them, in case something happens to the storage drive in the future...<br />
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Link 1 <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KaxcBH1Y23keRbYG21Qh8rLGy_Di0LCl/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Gunsmith's Guide to Port Arthur</a><br />
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Link 2 <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19mgH2ZGGvYco5BJxSETyDlJJaZQVClUR/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Vialls</a><br />
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Please note, I have read Joe Vialls' work, and do not agree with all of his conclusions. My own beliefs about the incident, based on currently available facts and information, is well documented on this blog and in my book. Keep an open mind when reading anything about Port Arthur, and double check as much as possible before deciding if something is true or not.<br />
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If you have information about Port Arthur, please share it with the community - anonymously if you wish. You can go to <a href="http://www.protonmail.com/">www.protonmail.com</a> and set up a free, encrypted email account, then send files to <a href="mailto:o_zim@protonmail.com">o_zim@protonmail.com</a> securely. <br />
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Of all the witness statements that contradict the official story, Gaye Lynd's experience is one of the most surreal. Driving a van with her friend Vicki, the van overheated heading south between Seascape and Port Arthur. Pulling over to let it cool down, Gaye added water to the radiator but the engine wouldn't start. They were stuck.<br />
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Then a yellow Volvo pulled up, the young blonde man flirted with the girls, fixed their car, told them he was going to the Isle of the Dead to kill some wasps, then bought a small bag of weed off them for $50 cash. He drove south, toward Port Arthur. Half an hour later, the shootings happened.<br />
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Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gzRpeK4bUfdOicfts-cNKM7NyRegjT9Q/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Gaye's full witness statement</a>. All I have are the pieces from various books and the court documents. If anyone has a copy of Gaye Lynd's full witness statement, please email portarthurinquiry@gmail.com<br />
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The Port Arthur shooter v Martin Bryant<br />
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The shooter appeared to be 20 years old - Martin was 29, almost 30.<br />
The shooter had strange, bleached blonde hair - Martin's is natural.<br />
The shooter bought weed and a lighter - Martin didn't smoke.<br />
The shooter could fix the van engine - Martin had no technical skills at all.<br />
The shooter displayed accuracy derived from a high level of training - Martin had fired less than 30 rounds in his life.<br />
The shooter was right handed - Martin shot with his left hand.<br />
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There is reasonable doubt that Martin Bryant is guilty. An inquiry and retrial are necessary. You can visit the Innocence Project to read dozens of stories of people wrongly convicted, just like Martin Bryany was: <a href="https://www.innocenceproject.org/">https://www.innocenceproject.org/</a><br />
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Everyone involved is getting old, so we encourage them all, get it off your chest and clear your conscience before you pass away as well. This isn't something you want to take with you.<br />
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This is a plea to anyone entering Tasmania's Risdon Prison. If you manage to speak to Martin Bryant, please ask him one or any of the following questions:<br />
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1. What did you mean, when you said "I'm sure you'll find the person who did this?" Is that a quote from a movie you saw? Did Petra say things like that? Was it a sick joke that the cops misinterpreted?<br />
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2. How clear is your memory of the kidnapping at Fortescue Bay turnoff? Can you describe the man, woman and child? They did not speak to Police or give a witness statement, so it's possible they framed you for murder.<br />
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3. Have you been told to keep quiet, or your family members will be harmed?<br />
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4. Did you call in a hoax drug tipoff at Saltwater River, about 12.30pm? If so, which phone did you use? The phone box at Nubeena where you ate a toasted sandwich after your swim?<br />
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5. Where did you get the phone number for Nubeena Police Station? Someone called Jamie spoke to the woman there, asked if she was playing with herself.<br />
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6. Do you know that 85% of Australians believe you are innocent? We just can't start a re-trial without your consent.<br />
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7. Petra mentioned someone called "Tiger" - do you have any idea who this was, and if they were involved in the shooting?<br />
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8. Do you remember anything at all about a phone call, inside the house, before the fire? In the ambulance, you told Malcolm Scott that Petra was with you inside the house, you were worried she might not have escaped the fire. Can you remember anything more between the BMW ride to Seascape at 12.30pm and the fire at 7.45am the next morning?<br />
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Why did the prosecutor lie to the judge?<br />
There are many strange incidents and events relating to the Port Arthur Massacre. One of the most enigmatic is one of the victims - Jim Pollard. <br />
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Jim was shot and killed at the Port Arthur tollbooth, about 1.50pm on Sunday 28 April 1996. He had been driving Ken Nixon's gold BMW. In the passenger seat, Ken's wife Rose Nixon was also shot and killed by the Port Arthur gunman.<br />
His other passengers on that fateful day were Robert and Helene Salzmann. Reading <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CnnS82qFa71jWOFB69snSZVENyjUihgM" target="_blank">Ken Nixon's witness statement</a>, we learn that Jim was travelling with Robert and Helene, and Ken loaned them his BMW, to save them the cost of a hire car.<br />
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The story begins with Jim, Rose, Robert and Helene driving to Port Arthur for the Sunday. The next information that we have is from <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jej77qLbgWK3CykULvHCiMOuiUk6h-VP/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Nicholas Cheok's witness statement</a>, saying Jim had parked the BMW in the wrong lane, blocking the entry of anyone else to the site while the shootings were happening. He also saw Robert and Helene were NOT in the BMW, they were sitting in the yellow Volvo, talking to the blonde man.<br />
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This event is completely ignored by the crown prosecutor in statements to the court. Here's the verbatim transcript from pages 156-158 of the transcript:<br />
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"<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your Honour, after slaughtering the Mikac's, Bryant re-entered his vehicle
and drove up the entrance road, pulling up just past the tollbooth on the
left-hand verge, approximately level with or slightly behind the Nixon
BMW. Photograph number 5 shows the position of the Volvo. A few
seconds later Miss Debra Rabe turned left from the Arthur Highway into the site
entrance and drove towards the tollbooth to be confronted by the gold BMW
blocking her path. Miss Rabe and her passengers, Mrs Frida Cheok and son,
Nicholas, observed a woman in the front passenger seat of the BMW we believe to
have been Mrs Nixon, motioning to them with her hands as if to say, ‘go
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Up to here, this matches Nicholas Cheok's witness statement. Can you see where the lies begin?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">"At the same time they observed two men, Bryant and Mr Salzmann
<em>apparently arguing at the driver’s side door of the Volvo.</em> It is the
Crown case that Bryant then quickly moved a step or two to the rear of the
Volvo and removed the .308</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">calibre SLR rifle. A few more words were exchanged and Bryant
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lethal injury, causing Mr Salzmann to fall straight backwards to the roadway<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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photograph number 15. Immediately after the murder of Mr. Salzmann Mr.
Pollard was observed by Nicholas Cheok to get out of the driver’s seat of the
BMW and walk around the front of the vehicles towards Bryant. Bryant
thereupon raised the rifle to his shoulder and shot Mr. Pollard at close range
through the right chest causing a lethal injury. And I refer your Honour
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occupants of this car having been alerted to the horror of the scene before
them by the urgent signalling of Mrs. Cheok, quickly reversed back towards the
entrance allowing Miss Rabe to do likewise. While Miss Rabe was in the
process of reversing her vehicle Bryant turned his attention to the two
remaining occupants of the BMW. <em>The exact sequence of events in the next
few seconds is not entirely clear but it seems probable that Bryant went to the
rear driver’s side door of the BMW and pulled Mrs. Salzmann from the vehicle
shooting her as he did so.</em> Mrs. Salzmann sustained a fatal gunshot
injury, the bullet entering her neck and exiting through her left upper
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the BMW where Mrs. Nixon was seated and shot her twice before dragging her body
clear of the vehicle onto the roadway. Mrs. Nixon sustained two gunshot
wounds, one entering her right shoulder and perforating her neck and cervical
spine, the other entering her left shoulder and perforated the left chest
cavity. Both of these wounds were lethal injuries. I refer your
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Helene Salzmann was not in the BMW. She was in the Volvo. Nicholas Cheok and the location of her body supports Nicholas Cheok's report. Let me ask you this - if a person is shot in the chest, does the bullet travel down, from their neck to their upper back? Or does that happen if they are kneeling, and the shooter looming above? Nicholas Cheok saw Helene dragged from the Volvo, thrown to the ground and then shot from above - consistent with the prosecutor's statement of fact.</span></div>
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<br />Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-747112271009700732018-12-30T15:55:00.001-08:002018-12-30T15:55:18.507-08:00ParaFAL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a photo of a rare scope-equipped FAL type rifle for long range marksmanship. Most of the FAL and SLR type infantry rifles were used with iron sights, since squad tactics at the time made the more-expensive optics unnecessary. Although this photo is of two British Paras in Belfast, this is the type of rifle located on the roof of an outbuilding at Seascape.<br />
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Serial number G3434, the origins of this rifle are unknown. Rifles with close serial numbers have been traced to Canada and North Africa, possibly coming to Australia via Brunei.<br />
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You should take some time to <a href="http://portarthurinquiry.blogspot.com/p/interview-transcript.html" target="_blank">read the interview transcript, linked here</a>. Martin Bryant cheerfully tells the truth about his life and difficulties, his relationships, his AR15, USAS-12 and AR10 firearms. Admitting that he owned the AR15, discovered damaged and burnt in the smoking ruins of Seascape was enough to seal his fate, so why deny ever seeing the FAL before? There's no benefit to him, and since he has a history of telling the truth in the interview, why switch to a lie at this point?<br />
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Here's how the conversation went:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Yeah. Alright, the next one we'll look at is a ahh, a 308 ahh, calibre, FN weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Do you remember where?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. I've never seen that one before. Never. That's not one of mine.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">Q. You sure?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. No definitely not, never seen that in my life. It's nice though.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Three 0 eight, yes. Had a 308.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Mmm.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. That was one Terry Hill was repairing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">Q. I’ll just ask Mr Warren to pick up a scope we have there on the floor because that might be causing the confusion. I believe that that scope was probably fitted to that gun before we got it. Now does that.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. No I've never seen that scope before in my life. Never. No. No I've never. Never seen that scope in my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Now you say you've never seen that 308 before but you did in fact own a 308?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Just a sec, before I go onto that. Where did you get the 308 that?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. I bought the 308 about, this is going back six, seven years now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Right. And where did you buy 308 ammunition?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Umm, I managed to get that, a load of it, about six, seven boxes with twenty in each box, ohh about four or five years ago but I had it stored away, been stored away, I never got to use that and, and it's only recently that I got to use it but, but they were the wrong bullets. So I went over to Terry Hill for the first time for years and he said you're using the wrong bullets Martin, you should be using the military hard, hard top bullets. He said the only ones I've got in stock, I've got a case of three thousand rounds and he said it'll cost you nine, think it was nine hundred and thirty dollars. And I said I'll think about it, I'll get back to you on Monday. So it was on the Friday, I phoned him up a few hours later, I said I've got the money, I'll come over and buy the rounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. So you bought three thousand?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Rounds. I couldn't buy anything smaller off him because that's all he had at the time and.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. And when was that?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. That's going back five months.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Four or five months ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. And is that ammunition.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. That.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Difficult to buy. You can't can you buy it sort off any gun dealer?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Umm, yeah you can buy it, I think you can buy hard top from other gun dealers but it's fairly hard to get hold of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Alright, we'll have a look at the last gun which is on the floor. And this is a .223 calibre self-loading rifle.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Yep. I've never seen that one before. Mmm.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">Q. Well we recovered that one.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. It's nice isn't it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Ahh, from ahh, I believe, ahh, from a repairer, being repaired.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Mmm.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">Q. Does that ring any bells?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Repairer. I've.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Have you got any guns at the moment or did you have any guns.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. That one was repaired for me, that other one, the AR10. That, I took over to Terry Hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Ohh, so I've got them confused.</span></div>
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Here, they wander off track and talk about Martin's cars and SCUBA diving experience. Then Paine comes back to the rifles for a moment:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Q. Martin, just be, while, before I forget it, can we have a look at the 308 again please Mr Warren. The one with the scope. I'd like you to have a closer look at, look at it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">Q. If I hold it up with the scope, you might.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">Q. If Mr Warren holds it like that.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px;">A. Yeah. No, no, I've never seen that one before. Never.</span><br />
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So you can see from this that Martin's memory is pretty good and he is articulate. He doesn't know enough about firearms to check the bullets, and is sold a dud lot by the person advertising the AR10 in the Mercury. That person probably bought the wrong bullets, then managed to pass them off to Martin - lucky for them there's a sucker born every minute.<br />
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But then Martin's luck with guns turns even worse. Terry Hill does a brilliant sales job on Martin, offloading probably his entire stock of rare and slow-selling 308 bullets for almost a thousand dollars. To be fair to Terry, $0.31 per bullet is a reasonable deal, he wasn't ripping Martin off, but honestly, who is going to fire 3,000 rounds in rural Tasmania? It's not like they have deer, moose and buffalo season, do they? Imagine buying a car and the dealer says "you have to buy 3,000 spark plugs, $0.30 each" - sure it's a deal, but who is going to use 3,000 spark plugs in their car?<br />
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It also appears that the cops don't know much about firearms either. They get the AR10 and AR15 confused, simply because they look similar, and they don't know how to attach the scope to the FN FAL.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AR15 in .223 with Colt 4x20 scope - recovered from Seascape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AR10 looks similar to the AR15 but they are different</td></tr>
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But it's the FAL that raises all the questions. It's a rare rifle for Australia, since the majority of ours were domestically manufactured SLR versions. And making it even more rare,this one has a scope attached. Martin has never seen it before - he is quite clear about that and even adds that he has never seen the scope before either.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scoped FN FAL in Qld, mid 1980s</td></tr>
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This introduces what is called "reasonable doubt" into the case. In Australia, we theoretically have a principle called "innocent until proven guilty" where the police have to prove the charges against you are true and valid. In civil cases, the burden of proof is called the "balance of probabilities" - are the odds you did it higher than the odds you didn't. Criminal cases are held to a higher standard. The charges must be proved "beyond reasonable doubt" and this is where the prosecution case comes unstuck.<br />
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Without Reasonable Doubt, there is nothing stopping the Police from just arresting you at home one evening, and saying to the judge 'Yeah, look, we found this rocket launcher, and we think he bought it, so just lock him up, will you?'<br />
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Over 200 years of legal activity has refined the rules and standards for evidence, in order to try to give people a fair trial. The onus is on the prosecution to prove Beyond Reasonable Doubt where and when and how you did the things you are accused of.<br />
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Can you imagine the conversations that happened inside the DPP offices? With intense political and media pressure to get a conviction, but the lawyers refusing to take this steaming pile of fertiliser into court?<br />
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The Police Commissioner is there in his uniform, covered in gold leaf. 'We need to wrap this up as quickly as possible, get him locked away so we can put it behind us and get the tourists back. How long until we can go to trial?'<br />
The prosecution lawyer shrugs, pointing at the brief on his desk. 'No way can we take this into court. We'll get slaughtered.'<br />
His boss sees the expression on the Commissioner's face and winces. He tries to lower the temperature in the room. 'How much longer do you need?'<br />
The lawyer's face goes red. 'It's not about time. It's about evidence. It's just not there.'<br />
The Commissioner tries to calm down by taking a deep breath. 'What do you mean?'<br />
'Okay, in no particular order,' sighs the lawyer:<br />
'Who made the phone call to tip off the police about the drug stash?<br />
How did Bryant get the unpublished new phone number for Nubeena Police Station?<br />
Where did the FN FAL come from? Martin says it wasn't his and we can't prove it.<br />
Who fired three shots at 6.30pm, as stated in Leanne Godwin's witness statement?<br />
Who fired the shots we can hear in the background on the negotiation tape with Terry McCarthy?<br />
Why did Martin sit in the Volvo with the Salzmann's and speak with them, before shooting them and Jim Pollard and Rose Nixon? Nicholas Cheok saw the whole thing.<br />
Why do Jim Laycock and Graham Collyer both say it wasn't Martin Bryant who shot them?<br />
Where is Martin's DNA evidence from the Solo can and eating utensils?<br />
Why is Wendy Scurr going around saying she picked shotgun pellets out of Dennis Olson, when we are saying the shotgun wasn't used in the massacre?'<br />
Both other men are silent. The Commissioner squirms a little as the lawyer finishes his spray.<br />
'There's a principle in law - you may have heard of it. It's called REASONABLE DOUBT and if it exists in that court, we won't get a conviction. And believe me, this brief is FULL of reasonable doubt. Gunston could be drunk on the floor and get him off. My ten year old kid could be Martin's defence lawyer and get him off, because this brief, this brief is FULL of reasonable doubt that he did it alone. If they put just ONE of those witnesses on the stand, there is no way a judge or jury will convict, no matter how much the media primes their minds that he did it.'<br />
The Commissioner turns to the lawyer's boss. 'Any suggestions?'<br />
'No way can we take this into a trial, mate. It's not like we are going to find new damning evidence, or have a Perry Mason epiphany on the day.'<br />
'So, we can't have a trial then.'<br />
'Not unless you want to be the next Standish.'<br />
'Huh? What?'<br />
'Standish. Victorian Police Commissioner in 1854. He basically caused the Kelly Gang to go on the run, turned public opinion in favour of the gang, and was sacked after the Glenrowan siege debacle. Funny, it's also the only siege where the Police set fire to the building, so there's precedent for YOU to be sacked as well...'<br />
The Commissioner turns purple and has difficulty breathing for a moment. At last, he calms down.<br />
'Best we not have a trial then. Just get him to plead guilty.'<br />
The DPP lawyers nod. 'I'll have a word with David Gunston, get him to step aside.'<br />
The Commissioner breathes a sigh of relief. 'Good. Any idea who to replace him?'<br />
The DPP head looks around the room. 'Someone expendable, they'll be <i>persona non grata</i> in Tasmania for a long time.' He raises his voice and calls out, 'Avery? Would you step in here a minute, please?'<br />
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In case you think Martin Bryant's wrongful conviction is something rare, <a href="https://www.innocenceproject.org/" target="_blank">please check out the Innocence Project.</a> They have an ever-increasing file of falsely imprisoned people who they have freed, some after more than 25 years in prison for crimes they did not do - sometimes even crimes that did not happen. If you can donate a few dollars to them, it will help get innocent people out of jail and that's a very good use of your money.<br />
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In order to present a plausible, possible alternative to the official story, I have written a novel, based on the witness statements and court documents. The 2nd Empty Chair: The Port Arthur Paradox is an action thriller that reads like a Hollywood movie script.<br />
It's very easy to read and "pokes more holes in the official story than a Pastafarian's colander." You can buy it from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/2nd-Empty-Chair-Arthur-Paradox-ebook/dp/B07DWK5MGF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546213752&sr=8-1&keywords=the+2nd+empty+chair" target="_blank">Amazon </a>or <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/oskar-zimmerman/the-2nd-empty-chair/paperback/product-23700052.html" target="_blank">Lulu </a>if Amazon won't ship to your location.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malcolm Scott was one</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the SOG officers that arrested Martin Bryant outside Seascape. After 24 hours of horrific and surreal events, his ambulance ride proved to be one of the most surreal. His witness statement is linked here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QrnTH9YbqnEh9U4TCYiqfAWJH6k7v1Hw" target="_blank">Malcolm Scott Witness Statement</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's hear it from him:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"During the course of escorting BRYANT to
the Royal Hobart Hospital conversation occurred with him in the rear of the
ambulance. I recorded this conversation in my note book as it occurred.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ambulance officer said, ‘What’s your
name?’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">BRYANT said, ‘Martin BRYANT’ and asked ‘what’s
the point of all this?’ <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The ambulance officer said, ‘I preserve
life, Martin. Have you been drinking alcohol?’ BRYANT said, ‘A bit, it hurts. I
want to get out of here.’ <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">BRYANT said, ‘Where is she?’ <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I said, ‘Who?’ <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">BRYANT said, ‘Petra, Petra did she get
out of the fire? Petra’s my girlfriend. We always stick together.’<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I said, ‘Was Petra in the fire? ‘<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">BRYANT said, ‘Yes, she was in the house.’<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">BRYANT made further
comments but his speech was incoherent."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Petra was in the house with Martin?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">He wanted to know if she survived the fire?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">This raises many questions that need to be answered by an inquest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Let's suppose for a moment that Bryant was the mastermind and sole villain of the massacre. He has been awake for over 24 hours, had massive amounts of adrenaline pumping through his system, fired hundreds of gunshots (guaranteed to cause hearing damage), and is now burned and in pain. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">How clearly is he thinking by now? This 66-iq simpleton, bullied all his life for being slow?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">What does he gain by lying about Petra's whereabouts? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Why would he try to incriminate her?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">And why didn't the Police follow up this information?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">There is a simpler explanation: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">He is exhausted, in agony, and telling the truth.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">If Petra was involved, it would explain how the soap powder came to be planted at Saltwater River, when she said she had been with Martin all week, leading up to the massacre. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Someone planted that soap powder decoy, someone obtained the unpublished phone number for Nubeena Police station.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">If Petra lied about their whereabouts, then it stands to reason she lied about a lot of things - including her involvement. Petra needs to be cross examined as part of the inquest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Now, let's look at recent evidence produced by Paul Moder, who is making WASP - The Port Arthur Massacre film:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">You can also read my fiction novel - The 2nd Empty Chair. Based on the evidence, it links the facts together into a plausible, possible narrative that blows the official story out of the water.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">These are not conspiracy theories. They are witness statements. An inquest is required, to answer these reasonable questions.</span></span>Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-39608246466549148022018-12-14T18:45:00.000-08:002018-12-14T18:50:14.273-08:00FAL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The FN FAL rifle has always been one of the main artifacts of the Port Arthur Paradox. A non-military .308 semi automatic, serial number G3434, it was manufactured in Belgium and somehow made it's way to the roof of a guest house at Seascape.<br />
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The police interview transcript makes very interesting reading. After readily discussing his stupid near-death boating accident, his porn habits and family, Martin is asked about the guns.<br />
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He readily says that he owns an AR10 in .308, and AR15 in .223 and a USAS12 shotgun. The .308 AR10 wasn't used at Port Arthur, it was safe in Terry Hill's gun shop for repairs. It needed repairs because Martin knew so little about firearms that he used the wrong type of bullets, and jammed it.<br />
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But let's get back to the interview:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A. Mmm.<br />Q. Do you remember where?<br />A. I've never seen that one before. Never. That's not one of mine.<br />Q. You sure?<br />A. No definitely not, never seen that in my life. It's nice though.<br />WARREN<br />A. Three 0 eight, yes. Had a three 0 eight.<br />Q. Mmm.<br />A. That was one Terry Hill was repairing.<br />PAINE<br />Q. I’ll just ask Mr Warren to pick up a scope we have there on the floor because that might be causing the confusion. I believe that that scope was probably fitted to that gun before we got it. Now does that...<br />A. No I've never seen that scope before in my life. Never. No. No I've never. Never seen that scope in my life.<br />Q. Now you say you've never seen that three 0 eight before but you did in fact own a three 0 eight?<br />A. Yeah, definitely.</span></div>
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So the conversation is pretty clear - Martin has never seen the .308 FN, but then the cops add a scope to it - a scope that had been lying on the floor of the interview room, not attached to the rifle.<br />
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What does Martin have to gain from lying about the FAL? Nothing. He admits the AR15 and the shotgun, that's enough to get him locked away for life. He gains nothing from lying about the FAL and I don't believe that he is lying. I believe he hadn't seen it before.<br />
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This is an added complication. Scoped rifles like this were rare in Australia, since most armies using the FN FAL or SLR used open sights. The scopes were reserved for special sniper rifles. Check out the Gunsmith's Guide to Port Arthur for more information about the FN FAL and SLR family of rifles.<br />
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Which brings me to my latest discovery.<br />
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I finally got a copy of David Everett's book Shadow Warrior. I've often said that Dave ticks most of the boxes when it comes to the Port Arthur shooter, although I don't think it was actually him who did it. Rather, I think it was someone like him, trained by the army but then cut loose, paid to do the job and disappear afterwards. A soldier of fortune. In the book, there are men like Baz and The Belgian who fit this description perfectly.<br />
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So look what I came across in the pictures:<br />
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Dave and an unknown accomplice, squatting in front of piles of ammunition, proudly displaying an AR15 and a<b> <i>SCOPED FN FAL</i> </b>- just like the one recovered from Seascape.<br />
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So who is this other chap? He looks a bit taller than Dave, but Everett was a small, skinny bloke so the mystery man is average height - Bryant's height.<br />
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Is it really so hard to imagine? This bloke gets arrested in 1995 by Qld cops and is sitting in an interview room when the door opens. In comes Rebecca Peters, flashing an INTERPOL badge she got from the Open Society. She asks the detectives to leave for a moment, then speaks to the ex-SAS mercenary and gun runner.<br />
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'Look, mate. You're fucked. You're looking at twenty years in prison, just like your accomplices James Reynolds and Dave Everett. Everett is still in prison, and Reynolds killed himself. I'm the only hope you've got.'<br />
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He looks skeptical, so she puts on her best Mad Max 2 impersonation.<br />
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<i>Max: Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that could haul that tanker...</i></div>
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'You wanna get outta here, you talk to me.'<br />
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'Okay,' he says warily. 'Talk to me.'<br />
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'Simple,' she says. 'I get these cops to release you into my custody, you do a job for me and then disappear afterwards.'<br />
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'What kind of job?'<br />
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'Something right up your alley,' she smirks. 'Shooting a bunch of American Tourists on a jetty in Tasmania...'<br />
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He thinks for a moment.<i> Gun control means big profits for the arms dealers who work in the shadows. People like me. Not a bad idea...</i><br />
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He smiles, and holds out his wrists for her handcuffs.<br />
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'Please promise me you won't...abuse me...while I'm in your custody...?'<br />
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She gives him a look that would melt steel.<br />
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'Don't worry, shithead. You're not my type.'<br />
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Nobody who has read the interview transcript and Nicholas Cheok's witness statement believes that Martin Bryant planned and carried out the Port Arthur Massacre on his own.<br />
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Think about possible v probable - what's more likely - did a disabled bloke with a 66 IQ plan a complex military style operation, execute it with precise timing and then hold to a convoluted lie when interrogated by the cops? He says that he drove past Port Arthur because he didn't have the money to go in. He couldn't pay the entry fee because he was due to get more money from the Public Trustee on Monday 30 April 1996.<br />
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Or was he set up, drugged and left in Seascape while professionals stole his Volvo, impersonated him and then set fire to the building to cover their tracks? Martin waking up and getting out of the fire wasn't in their plan, he was supposed to die in the fire. Nice and neat.<br />
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If ex SASR members were involved, then it makes sense that there is a shame and a coverup at the highest levels. The Australian public trust these men to do our dirty work, to do extreme violence on our behalf, so we may sleep safely in our beds at night. If it was revealed that some of them went rogue, and helped commit this atrocity, the public's faith in the institution would be shattered and all the billions spent, wasted.<br />
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So the truth and an innocent man are sacrificed for political expediency.<br />
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Sadly, it has ever been thus.<br />
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My novel, the 2nd Empty Chair is a possible, plausible alternative to the official story, based on the witness statements and court documents. You can get it from Amazon or if you want 15% off the paperback, go to <a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/OskarZim">www.lulu.com/spotlight/OskarZim</a> and order it from there.<br />
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<br />Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-20004549091347310782018-12-11T22:26:00.000-08:002018-12-11T22:26:18.144-08:00SketchGraham Collyer was shot in the neck at the Broad Arrow Café. He had a reasonably good look at the shooter, as described in his <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xX56T-AQ347k4S5l97prVY631I0Mvdm8" target="_blank">witness statement linked here</a>.<br />
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Did he mistake the grip pattern on the AR15 as "vents" or was he in fact looking at a FN FAL, the type carried by ex-SASR, mercenary and armed robber David Everett?</div>
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AR15 SP1 Carbine owned by Martin Bryant and found in seascape ruins.</div>
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FN FAL #3434 found damaged in the gutter of an outbuilding at Seascape.</div>
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FAL type SLR carried by Everett in Myanmar where he taught marksmanship to the Karen rebels. Cooling vents in the barrel shroud and a straight magazine.<br />
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Now, there are many people who know more about guns than me, and I would love some advice about what that sketch could be of. The vents in the barrel shroud don't look like an AR15 but the front sight is the triangle shape (which the FAL doesn't have). The sketch looks like the bastard love child of an AR15 and an SLR, so any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated.<br />
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The police appear to<span style="color: black;"> be very afraid of the Collyer statement. Here's Ian McNiven's experience: <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The guest speaker was introduced by the Queensland President of the Forensic Society, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">who I believe was a serving Policeman. The presentation was quite professional and almost </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">identical to the article in the Australian Police Journal September 98 Vol 52 No 4. It </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">contained very little information about actual forensic technique and in my opinion was </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">mainly propaganda. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">There were two statements made that were of interest to me - The killer never used the FNFAL <span style="color: black;">.308 rifle until he returned to the boot of the Volvo and that Bryant obtained the <span style="color: black;">weapons used in the killings "on the black market" - more about that later. </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">When the lecture was finished the presenter told us that we would have 5 minutes of <span style="color: black;">questions before going outside for a tea break and then coming back in for the main </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">question time. He then proceeded to warn the audience about conspiracy theories and that </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">some people didn't believe that Bryant was the killer and that he wouldn't be answering </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">questions of a conspiracy nature or words to that effect. This did not concern me as the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">questions I wanted to ask related to the collection of forensic evidence in the café. When the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">first question was called for, I had my hand up and got the nod. This is the question I asked </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">- "Was any solid empirical forensic evidence such as finger prints or DNA found that links </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Martin Bryant to the shootings in the café?” Having read many of the witness statements, I </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">had a specific reason for asking that. More about that later.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The presenter looked like he had been handed a dirty nappy and proceeded to waffle on </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">about ballistic evidence as a way of avoiding the answer. I thought the answer was quite <span style="color: black;">simple. Just a yes or no. As I was very keen to get an answer, I interrupted the speaker and </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">pointed out that my question was not about ballistics but about fingerprints and DNA. Then I </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">asked again (loudly), "Did you find Bryant's fingerprints on the bullet cases or any of Bryant's <span style="color: black;">DNA at the café?" The speaker then started to bluster about ballistic evidence again and <span style="color: black;">then said that they had witness statements. It then became obvious to me that there must <span style="color: black;">be no empirical forensic evidence liking Bryant to the café or the speaker would have said <span style="color: black;">yes, and given an outline of how and where it was collected. When he mentioned witness <span style="color: black;">statements I asked him if he was familiar with the statement of Graham Collyer? The <span style="color: black;">presenter then told me and all the audience that he would talk to me about it outside and <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">shut down the question time.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">When he was free I walked up to him with the Collyer statement and asked to discuss it with <span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">him. He looked me in the eye, turned his back on me and walked away. I was gobs<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">macked, standing in the middle of the crowd, Collyer statement in my hand and a stupid </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">look on my face. Here was a Senior Forensic Policeman who had given his word to speak to <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">me in front of about 200 people, going back on his promise. I resolved to use question time </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">to ask him in front of all those people why he had lied to me. I was very interested to hear</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">I never got to ask the question because as I moved to the door, I was surrounded by some </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">burly gentlemen who said they were policemen and I was asked to step aside, which I did. I</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">meeting and University Security would be called, they would call the Police and "people may </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">be arrested" looking hard at me. Can you imagine my astonishment, here I was being </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">threatened with arrest for doing nothing more than asking a simple forensic question. What</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-79425880517108809282018-12-02T18:26:00.001-08:002018-12-02T18:26:53.610-08:00Truck<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: TTE225A780t00; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span></span>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4TUBUrIoezU7zLHQ87opjLYQ7GbgGtsJYFE0OWeBDioY5W1u9KgQ6r4-49UBZiHK8X4gsEgHJ4rczQlChyV3xxxpkC1Sd9t3I5Rt71Ne84eMLzeGiK880zXmth6c2FLd0xMgKvyEpxPI/s1600/Mort+Truck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1600" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4TUBUrIoezU7zLHQ87opjLYQ7GbgGtsJYFE0OWeBDioY5W1u9KgQ6r4-49UBZiHK8X4gsEgHJ4rczQlChyV3xxxpkC1Sd9t3I5Rt71Ne84eMLzeGiK880zXmth6c2FLd0xMgKvyEpxPI/s320/Mort+Truck.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Among
all the strange coincidences of the Port Arthur Massacre, none are as vivid as
the refrigerated morgue truck. There's no question it was perfect for the job -
22 refrigerated berths kept the dead bodies cool while they were autopsied. The
questions arise when you start thinking about why it existed in the first
place, and what happened to it after the massacre.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Let's
look at a few of the issues and facts in order: First, let's see what Carl
Wernerhoff has to say (quoted from Mass Murder by Keith Noble:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“The
fact that a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">morgue truck with over 20
bays was built before the massacre....17 Two specially designed embalming
machines</b> were sent to Hobart: ‘One firm in particular, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nelson Brothers</b> [ 7 Droop Street, Footscray, VIC 3011], had
organised for an embalming machine box and a special large equipment case to be
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">manufactured ready for the incident.</b>
These two containers were the envy of all embalmers and worked extremely well,’
was recorded....”18 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All these facts were
never reported</b>, in fact <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">they were
suppressed and dug up by investigators</b> afterwards because had we known
about these preparations I think we might have become even more suspicious of
just how ready the city of Hobart was for a traumatic incident of major
proportions.... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[T]here are people who
planned a massacre and blamed an unfortunate intellectually handicapped man for
the terrible crimes</b> that took place in one of the most beautiful and
peaceful places on earth.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I
have gathered innumerable pieces of information and facts which substantiate a
cover-up of immense proportions over the past ten years. And even now, I am
still uncovering more and more information. There is so much of it that it
never ends. For instance, we know that a Mortuary truck with 22 body racks in a
refrigerated unit was built before the massacre.... Why would Tasmania need a
Mortuary Unit designed for a disaster of at least 22 bodies? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Thirty-five
people were killed at one of the most beautiful historic sites in our country
and only a few weeks later the Howard government [Liberal by name, but
conservative by ideology] pushed through Draconian gun laws that had <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no hope in hell</b> of getting passed
without the emotional turmoil that followed the Port Arthur massacre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">(amended;
added emphasis; added italics) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Carl
Wernerhoff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The
Port Arthur massacre 10 years on the secrecy continues</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">members.iinet.net.au/~nedwood/Pam06.html<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">17 The
Australian (29 April 1996) states that the refrigerated mortuary truck was
driven to Port Arthur late Sunday (28th). And on p. 106 of the Port
Arthur Seminar Papers it reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“Day
Four Wednesday 1 May 1996 ...First of the deceased persons leave the scene
at Port Arthur and are removed to the Royal Hobart Hospital mortuary.”
Euphemistic words of the Australian Funeral Directors Association tell us the
first load of bodies was trucked from Port Arthur to the Hobart morgue on
Wednesday, three days after the incident. Charleton’s purpose-built
refrigerated truck had two functions related to the bodies of the 35
people officially killed: i. Storage; and, ii. Transportation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">18
Stephen Parry. Port Arthur massacre 1996 – AFDA national embalming team –
detailed report; Port Arthur Seminar Papers; 1997: p. 112. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">It
cannot get any more diabolical and shocking. Nelson Brothers had special
big-job embalming equipment “manufactured ready for the incident.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Officials
want you to believe they had no fore-knowledge about the incident at Port
Arthur. But true facts tell the world another story – 35 people were killed
with official approval and funeral directors in Victoria had the special
embalming equipment that they would need in Tasmania manufactured ready for use
after the killing was done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Next,
let's look at what happened after the truck was proven useful. Was it retained
by the Tasmanian government, in case a tragedy happened again? Was it purchased
by Victoria or New South Wales - both of whom had gun massacres prior to Port
Arthur, and with higher populations were statistically more likely to have a
mass casualty event like a plane or boat disaster?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">No,
it was offered for sale with an enigmatic note: Again, Mass Murder has a copy
of the advertisement:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“Yellow
Chevrolet 350 V8 truck with refrigerated body, holds 22. This vehicle was
primarily used as the disaster vehicle in the Port Arthur Massacre. This
vehicle is currently for sale and all reasonable offers will be considered. The
vehicle has value as not only a refrigerated unit for body removal, it is the
only one of its kind in the entire country. The memorabilia value of it for
anyone making a movie/series or writing a book on Port Arthur is limitless. Not
only would the purchaser be getting the disaster vehicle, but the whole Port
Arthur Story would be given as well. This vehicle is currently for sale and all
REASONABLE OFFERS will be considered.” Email <a href="mailto:cwright@trump.net.au"><span style="color: blue;">cwright@trump.net.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">It
seems that Chris Wright was then a copper with Tasmania Police. Now how did he
get to own, or have responsibility for selling, this 22-body refrigerated
morgue vehicle? If you know how, please email your info to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:MARTINBRYANTISINNOCENT@gmail.com o"><span style="color: blue;">MARTINBRYANTISINNOCENT</span></a><a href="mailto:MARTINBRYANTISINNOCENT@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">@gmail.com</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">End quote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">You can also <span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">contact
me via <a href="mailto:o_zim@protonmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">o_zim@protonmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Sadly,
emails to that address simply bounce back. Now let’s turn to Andrew MacGregor’s
book Deceit and Terrorism. He starts with the media circus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">If
the Port Arthur massacre was one thing, it was a media show, and a very
successful one at that. The media were given top priority, and followed the
government leads in their entirety. A typical example of the death of
investigative journalism by the television media is that with Andrew Fisher at
the Police forward Command Post at Taranna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Andrew
Fisher at the PFCP at Taranna on the evening of the massacre, “Well, a State
Crisis Centre is being set up at Police headquarters, and the deputy State
Coroner Mr Matterson has turned up as has a Mortuary truck to pick up the dead
at the present time. Police are also saying that there will be trauma
counselling both on the peninsula and a major centre is being set up at the
Rokeby Police Academy just outside Hobart.” “Thank you Andrew, we’ll leave it
there; Andrew Fisher.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">None
of the audience listening to that little description would pick up anything
unusual, but if <span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Andrew
Fisher actually saw the Southern Tasmanian Mortuary truck, he should have asked
some very pertinent questions. For a full description of this vehicle consider
this advertisement placed on the Internet in September 1999:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Vehicle
for Sale – the same ad as above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">A
hearse built to carry 22 bodies! It is the only one of its kind in Australia.
Why would a State like Tasmania need such a vehicle? Why would a State government
decide to purchase such a vehicle? What precedent would it be relying on to
consider the application of such a vehicle? There had never been any
requirement for such a vehicle in Tasmania’s history prior to the Port Arthur
Massacre, and there has never been any further requirement for this vehicle.
Andrew Fisher never had any curiosity about such an oddity appearing within
hours of the Port Arthur Massacre. This vehicle is described slightly differently
though in the EMA Port Arthur Seminar Papers on pages 90 & 97.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">On
page 90 in the report tabled by Mr Ian Matterson it states, “Also present was a
Chevrolet truck to the chassis of which Mr Charlton had attached a refrigerated
covered compartment capable of storing sixteen (16) bodies. This vehicle had,
in the past, been regarded by many as an expensive aberration that would never
have a use. At Port Arthur it was a highly prized possession.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">On
page 97 in the report by Mr T. J. Lyons, State Forensic Pathologist, it states,
“Removal of the bodies was greatly assisted because the Southern Region
Mortuary Ambulance Service provided a large vehicle capable of handling
multiple bodies – the only such vehicle currently available in Australia.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Andrew
Fisher is the first reporter to tell us that things are not quite as they seem.
There were many more instances where the media reported items that should have
aroused suspicion, but did not.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">End quote<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So,
the truck remains an enigma. Here are some questions for an inquiry to ask:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Who
authorised the truck to be built?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">What
reasons did they have?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Who
authorised its disposal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">How
did Chris Wright obtain the truck after the massacre?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Did
he pay a commercial price or value for it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Anyone
with information or eyewitness testimony is encouraged to contact me in
absolute confidentiality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Anyone
who wants to read a plausible alternative that matches the facts more closely
than the official story, get a copy of The 2<sup>nd</sup> Empty Chair: The Port
Arthur Paradox. </span></div>
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Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-36611924628382937362018-11-21T17:58:00.000-08:002018-11-21T17:58:05.197-08:00Dave<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77A97CMu2CpAW7dY5MYfBOiLkRo13J9Elq_Hci3FlJGV_HS-Rx2wbPv0vio9hF2Dtpdp1R1_w8Gi9HVvIb7UXismSw5aK3KWJszvKctdHu5DM9L7wqYTcV2qjQq4XvMdjRXI_wvWOnwg/s1600/DaveLarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="386" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77A97CMu2CpAW7dY5MYfBOiLkRo13J9Elq_Hci3FlJGV_HS-Rx2wbPv0vio9hF2Dtpdp1R1_w8Gi9HVvIb7UXismSw5aK3KWJszvKctdHu5DM9L7wqYTcV2qjQq4XvMdjRXI_wvWOnwg/s320/DaveLarge.jpg" width="320" /></a>The more I read about Dave Everett, the more I admire the bloke. Sure, he wasn't perfect; but none of us are, and he seemed to have good reasons for doing the bad things...<br />
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Was he the Port Arthur shooter? I don't know and I don't want to tarnish his memory by making an accusation. All I'm saying is, he ticks a lot of boxes. Probable? Possible? Maybe...<br />
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Here's some photos and an unpublished chapter from his book: Shadow Warrior. It's no longer available online, so you'll need the wayback link to get it from the archives...<br />
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081102083734/http://www.dangerousdaveeverett.com:80/index.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20081102083734/http://www.dangerousdaveeverett.com:80/index.html</a><br />
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Make sure you read the chapter on The Lost Tunnels.<br />
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You can order his book from your local library...<br />
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My interview with Crazz Files about Port Arthur, the book and the necessary inquiry<br />
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Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-72248022115493538482018-11-07T17:40:00.000-08:002018-11-08T00:45:42.416-08:00Incompetence<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbg9DTeP5ELYImdDajhP_Tr9TeYgrD8yuqrkzEPbsMJFzLvyLiBhXxMiIL3Bwl5KRc1t1pA4kayYdZLeiB9DDXCaiR9c1lqCqKoNCkajDV2IiwFSo-wBelJ0MIXs-aNsDR2SwUZWADfg/s1600/Lane.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbg9DTeP5ELYImdDajhP_Tr9TeYgrD8yuqrkzEPbsMJFzLvyLiBhXxMiIL3Bwl5KRc1t1pA4kayYdZLeiB9DDXCaiR9c1lqCqKoNCkajDV2IiwFSo-wBelJ0MIXs-aNsDR2SwUZWADfg/s320/Lane.png" width="320" /></a>Yet more news about incompetent police investigations leading to convictions: <br />
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<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-05/keli-lane-baby-search-left-163-children-unaccounted-for/10465296">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-05/keli-lane-baby-search-left-163-children-unaccounted-for/10465296</a><br />
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What happens when it's your turn? Every citizen must be concerned about this because it strikes at the heart of our legal system.<br />
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The following questions about Port Arthur need further investigation:<br />
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1. Who fired three shots at 6.30pm outside Clougha - a historic house inside the PAHS?<br />
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2. Where did the FN FAL Serial # G3434 come from? Martin Bryant did not own it, had never seen it before.<br />
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3. Who fired shots in the background of the telephone conversation with "Jamie" inside Seascape and why did the transcribers list them as "cough" instead of "gunshot"?<br />
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4. Why did Margaret Jacobs arrange a staff seminar to commence on a Sunday? If she did not select the date, time and agenda, who did and why? What other state government seminars were held on a Sunday in 1996 or the years since?<br />
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5. Why did Constable Chris Isles travel out of his jurisdiction to Port Arthur? He arrived at 1.55pm, speaking to Jim Laycock outside the Kodak Shop. The shooting began about 1.35pm, but it is an hour's drive from his jurisdiction in Sorell. What prompted Chris Isles to drive an hour south of his jurisdiction on a Sunday afternoon, forty minutes before the massacre began?<br />
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6. Who were the two women driving the gunman's yellow Volvo that Paul Cooper and Vicky McLaughlin saw on Tramway Street? <br />
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7. How completely were the instructions in Helen Harvey's will carried out? Did the Public Trustee transfer all her assets, including rights to the income from her father's Tatts Lotto shares, into Martin Bryant's account? If no, where are they now? If yes, how were they disposed of and distributed to victims?<br />
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8. Where is the glass jar of soap powder, recovered from Saltwater River by Constables Whittle and Hyland? Was it forensically tested for fingerprints and DNA?<br />
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9. Where are the eating utensils, plate and Solo can from the café gunman's tray. Were they forensically tested for fingerprints and DNA?<br />
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10. Why were staff of the newspapers not prosecuted for contempt of court, by publishing Martin Bryant's personal photographs without permission, before he had even been charged with any crime?<br />
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11. Why was the 22-bed refrigerated morgue truck disposed of, after the massacre?<br />
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12. Prosecution allege Martin shot David and Sally Martin. Two shots were heard from Seascape at 10.40am, yet Martin was putting $15 fuel in the Volvo at Taranna at 10.45am.<br />
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<br />Oskar Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845158006225742837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4165831511419394317.post-71808211414670868222018-11-03T23:52:00.000-07:002018-11-04T00:03:36.336-07:00Cheok<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The official story of the Port Arthur Massacre really comes apart at the Toll Booth.<br />
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Nicholas Cheok saw most of what transpired, and gave a witness statement two and a half months later. I've linked his Witness Statement here:<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jej77qLbgWK3CykULvHCiMOuiUk6h-VP/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jej77qLbgWK3CykULvHCiMOuiUk6h-VP/view?usp=sharing</a><br />
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and I'll put a link on the sidebar as well.<br />
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Read it carefully. You owe it to the victims to understand what happened.<br />
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He clearly saw three people in the yellow Volvo, and two people in the gold BMW.<br />
None of them were running away, even when the gunman stepped away from his hot, smoking rifle.<br />
He left it in the back seat of the Volvo, while Robert and Helene Salzmann got in and sat with him, talking, then arguing.<br />
Jim Pollard and Rose Nixon sat in her husband's BMW, warning away anyone trying to drive in to the Port Arthur Historic Site.<br />
As Nicholas and Debra Rae watched in horror, Robert got out of the Volvo, followed by a blonde, six-foot, well-built man. They were both on the driver's side, in the roadway. The blonde man walked around the front of the Volvo, opened the back passenger door, came around the back of the Volvo with a gun and shot Robert at point-blank range.<br />
Jim Pollard got out of the driver's side of the BMW, walked around the front into the middle of the road and was shot by the gunman. The blonde man then walked back around the front of the Volvo, opened the front passenger door and dragged out Helene Salzmann, shooting her twice.<br />
He then goes back to the middle of the road, opening the BMW passenger door and shooting Rose Nixon.<br />
He then takes the BMW, drives out to the Port Arthur petrol station and kills Zoe Hall, kidnapping Glen Pears and driving to Seascape.<br />
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So here are some questions for the coroner to answer:<br />
What was the relationship between Jim Pollard, Rose Nixon and the Salzmanns?<br />
Why didn't the four run away from the shooting?<br />
Why would you argue with an armed man, let alone sit inside a car with him?<br />
Why didn't Robert Salzmann unload the hot, smoking rifle in the passenger seat next to him?<br />
Seeing Robert shot, it's understandable if Jim Pollard thought he could "talk down" the gunman. But why didn't the women run away? Why didn't Jim Pollard drive the BMW (with his friend in the passenger seat), away from the danger zone before returning to try and talk the shooter down?<br />
Did any of the 4 know Martin Bryant prior to the shooting?<br />
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At the end of the witness statement, Nicholas identifies Martin Bryant as the gunman. I respect Nicholas' statement, but keep in mind how susceptible our memories are to suggestion, and Nicholas had just been subject to 10 weeks of constant, saturation media saying Martin Bryant was the shooter and splashing his photo everywhere.<br />
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Even if Nicholas was correct, and it was Martin Bryant shooting Jim Pollard, Rose Nixon and the Salzmanns, their actions are enough to throw reasonable doubt on the official story and are grounds for an inquiry.<br />
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Why is this interesting? Let's take a step back and look at the big picture.<br />
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You can read the full story on Wikipedia here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatts_Group">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatts_Group</a><br />
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In short, Tatts got going in Tasmania in 1895 when George Adams' gambling ventures on the mainland were shut down by moral wowsers. Similar to the current "Lockout Laws" - you get the idea.<br />
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Adams ran the lottery in Tasmania and amassed a fortune which he plowed into political power. Funding everything from infrastructure, business deals, horse breeding and political figures, he stayed behind the scenes as an apparently benevolent puppet master.<br />
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His key employee and Lottery Manager was a man named David Hastie Harvey.<br />
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George Adams died childless in 1904 and left all the shares in Tattersalls to his closest friends. Over the next almost-century, these were split amongst various heirs and sold in smaller parcels until at the new century there were over 590 shareholders. Their names were released when the company was floated as Tatts Group.<br />
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Let's look at David Hastie Harvey.<br />
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George Adam's faithful manager and student was also a successful businessman, farmer and horse breeder. Living in Mansrea, he owned property all over Tasmania and had eight children:<br />
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Horace was a breeder and trainer, who owned Studley Park at Sorell.<br />
Harold was a farmer who owned Font Hill at Oatlands<br />
David became an engineer, worked for State Hydro<br />
Lorimer (Born 1907) was an electrician and plumber<br />
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Of the daughters, one died very young.<br />
The oldest, listed simply as "Mrs Maddox of Melbourne" obviously married into high society and disappears from public records.<br />
Violet was a nurse at Gallipoli and died in 1975<br />
Daisy travelled the world, including a stint in India, dying in 1968<br />
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David Hastie Harvey died in 1927 aged 71. He had inherited ten percent of Adams' estate and built his own property and business empire using the same network.<br />
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Now it gets interesting:<br />
David Hastie Harvey's youngest son Lorimer Harvey marries Hilza Kalbfell on 12 July 1932. He is 25 years old. <br />
Their daughter, Helen Mary Harvey is born the same year. Do the math...<br />
Mary is developmentally delayed, but has a very comfortable life. She finishes school, has a clerical job for a while but her father dies in 1961, aged 54. Hilza and Helen live Hobart, but Helen's inability to keep house leads to increasing squalor.<br />
Hilza died on 27 July, 1990 and left the entire estate to her daughter Helen. What was it worth? There's an entry on <a href="http://encyc.org/wiki/Tattersalls">http://encyc.org/wiki/Tattersalls</a> which says $26 million, however it also says Helen was the owner of the company, which is not correct. She inherited shares which provided an income, that's all.<br />
Helen was killed on 20 October, 1992 when her car crashed head on into a truck. She was killed instantly, as were several dogs that were in the car at the same time. Her other passenger received a spinal injury and spent a while in hospital. His name was Martin Bryant.<br />
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Helen had recently changed her will, leaving everything to her new friend, however there is uncertainty about how completely her instructions were carried out. Both Helen and Martin's money was managed by the Public Trustee, but it is not known if the estates were ever merged before 29 April 1996.<br />
Bryant's funds included $250,000 of his father's life insurance money, and $143,000 from the sale of a farm in Copping. The Age noted the compensation fund at $1.3 million, (link below) based on seized assets which is probably those figures, plus the sale proceeds of the New Town mansion. If anyone has more data about the compensation fund, I would love to see it. The State Archives are still locked for another 5 years...<br />
Tatts Group was floated in 2005 and the shareholder register became public for the first time ever. There are 5 Harvey family members who were shareholders at the time, and the Public Trustee is listed as holding two parcels of shares. Parcel #9 is 13,608,771 shares and #154 with 531,591 shares. Was one of these parcels the property of Helen Mary Harvey? If so, it wasn't included in the payout to victims and what happened to the dividends paid on those shares?<br />
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It's always bothered me, why Martin himself was selected as the patsy. There are several possibilities:<br />
1. He came up on the MK Ultra radar when Dr Eric Cunningham Dax interviewed him aged 14. As a gullible young man, he would be easily hypnotised and an excellent mind control subject.<br />
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2. He annoyed someone connected to the plot on one of his overseas trips, and was tapped as the fall guy as punishment. This is the fiction I went with in my novel, The 2nd Empty Chair.<br />
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But when doing any investigation, the first rule is always: FOLLOW THE MONEY.<br />
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So option 3 is, he was set up by people who knew what was being planned, and used the massacre to steal or reclaim Helen Harvey's shares, before Martin wasted all the money on overseas travel. There is precedent for this - the Jack Reacher novel One Shot is about a mass shooting that is a cover for a business-related execution. <br />
Option 4 is that the whole thing is a coincidence and somebody in the Public Trustee saw an opportunity and took it on the fly, while everything was confused. <br />
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Set emotion aside and look at the probabilities and possibilities.<br />
Analysing these options, we are forced to the following conclusions:<br />
Is it probable? Maybe not.<br />
Is it possible? Definitely.<br />
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The Tasmanian State Library Archives contain records of the compensation fund, and I applied for access. The email I received back advised that those files are closed until 2023, unless I get permission from the Attorney General AND the Tas Justice Department. <br />
<em>Good luck with that...</em><br />
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Anyone with information about the Harvey family or Port Arthur is encouraged to contact me in complete anonymous confidence: <a href="mailto:o_zim@protonmail.com">o_zim@protonmail.com</a><br />
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Everyone who smells something fishy about the official story should read my fiction novel - available from one of the links in the sidebar. Based on the witness statements and court documents, it tells a plausible alternative that "pokes more holes in the official story than a pastafarian's colander".<br />
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Resting places of Lorimer, Hilza and Helen Harvey. I wonder at the significance of burying Helen with her great grandparents, rather than the Harvey clan. Is there anyone in Tasmania who knows anything about the family history - can you shed light on any family tensions that might explain this?<br />
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