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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
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Sunday, October 28, 2018
Lottery
One of my readers was in the Sydney CBD the other night and sent me two photos of the City Tattersalls Club:
Why is this interesting? Let's take a step back and look at the big picture.
You can read the full story on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatts_Group
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.
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.
His key employee and Lottery Manager was a man named David Hastie Harvey.
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.
Let's look at David Hastie Harvey.
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:
Horace was a breeder and trainer, who owned Studley Park at Sorell.
Harold was a farmer who owned Font Hill at Oatlands
David became an engineer, worked for State Hydro
Lorimer (Born 1907) was an electrician and plumber
Of the daughters, one died very young.
The oldest, listed simply as "Mrs Maddox of Melbourne" obviously married into high society and disappears from public records.
Violet was a nurse at Gallipoli and died in 1975
Daisy travelled the world, including a stint in India, dying in 1968
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.
Now it gets interesting:
David Hastie Harvey's youngest son Lorimer Harvey marries Hilza Kalbfell on 12 July 1932. He is 25 years old.
Their daughter, Helen Mary Harvey is born the same year. Do the math...
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.
Hilza died on 27 July, 1990 and left the entire estate to her daughter Helen. What was it worth? There's an entry on http://encyc.org/wiki/Tattersalls 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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
It's always bothered me, why Martin himself was selected as the patsy. There are several possibilities:
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.
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.
But when doing any investigation, the first rule is always: FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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.
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.
Set emotion aside and look at the probabilities and possibilities.
Analysing these options, we are forced to the following conclusions:
Is it probable? Maybe not.
Is it possible? Definitely.
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.
Good luck with that...
Anyone with information about the Harvey family or Port Arthur is encouraged to contact me in complete anonymous confidence: o_zim@protonmail.com
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".
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?
Newspaper link:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/a-daughter-gone-a-life-in-ruins-20060401-ge2203.html
Why is this interesting? Let's take a step back and look at the big picture.
You can read the full story on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatts_Group
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.
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.
His key employee and Lottery Manager was a man named David Hastie Harvey.
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.
Let's look at David Hastie Harvey.
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:
Horace was a breeder and trainer, who owned Studley Park at Sorell.
Harold was a farmer who owned Font Hill at Oatlands
David became an engineer, worked for State Hydro
Lorimer (Born 1907) was an electrician and plumber
Of the daughters, one died very young.
The oldest, listed simply as "Mrs Maddox of Melbourne" obviously married into high society and disappears from public records.
Violet was a nurse at Gallipoli and died in 1975
Daisy travelled the world, including a stint in India, dying in 1968
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.
Now it gets interesting:
David Hastie Harvey's youngest son Lorimer Harvey marries Hilza Kalbfell on 12 July 1932. He is 25 years old.
Their daughter, Helen Mary Harvey is born the same year. Do the math...
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.
Hilza died on 27 July, 1990 and left the entire estate to her daughter Helen. What was it worth? There's an entry on http://encyc.org/wiki/Tattersalls 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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
It's always bothered me, why Martin himself was selected as the patsy. There are several possibilities:
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.
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.
But when doing any investigation, the first rule is always: FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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.
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.
Set emotion aside and look at the probabilities and possibilities.
Analysing these options, we are forced to the following conclusions:
Is it probable? Maybe not.
Is it possible? Definitely.
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.
Good luck with that...
Anyone with information about the Harvey family or Port Arthur is encouraged to contact me in complete anonymous confidence: o_zim@protonmail.com
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".
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?
Newspaper link:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/a-daughter-gone-a-life-in-ruins-20060401-ge2203.html
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Tabletop
Here's a frame lifted from the Police Training Video, showing the table and tray of the Port Arthur Gunman. He sat at a different table - outside, then brought his tray, video camera and large black duffel bag inside.
He put the tray on this table, set down the video camera and then opened the duffel bag. From it, he took the blue sports bag and at least two firearms: an AR15 SP1 Carbine and a USAS12 shotgun.
We all know what happened next.
This post won't dwell on the massacre itself, rather I want to raise the critical issues that this table represents. Let's start with what we can see:
1. The blue sports bag. The only information we have linking Martin to this bag is a statement by Petra Wilmot. Here's how Martin responded when the police asked him about it:
For readability, I've noted where Martin is speaking, keep in mind that often, we mumble MM-MM to mean "no", usually while shaking our head. Because there's no video to accompany this, it's difficult to determine if Martin is mumbling "MMM" for "yes" or "MM-MM" for "no":
PAINE
Q. Martin, I'm gonna just get Mr Warren to pick up that ahh, sports bag on the floor and show it to you.
Martin. It's a nice one isn't it.
Q. It's a very nice bag.
Martin. Mmm.
Q. Seen that before?
Martin. No never, never seen that before.
Q. Well I believe you.
Martin. I've got a couple of sports bags. I've got a rubber black one upstairs at Clare Street I bought ...(inaudible) ...
Q. Well I believe you bought that in Myers or Fitzgeralds or somewhere in town, accompanied with a, a young women earlier this year.
Martin. Earlier with a young woman, I don't recall buying that.
Q. You sure?
Martin. No, not at all. If I said that that was mine, I'd say that was mine but.
Q. Ohh.
Martin. No.
WARREN
Q. have you ever had a bag, a bag like that?
Martin. Bag like that, I've got a couple of sports bags. I've got a red one, I can't, ohh a bit like that and a blue one, just all blue at home but.
PAINE
Q. Do you recognise the brand name there?
Martin. No.
Q. It's a Prince brand.
Martin. Ugh ugh, no.
Q. Because it's funny, you said, did you say you liked playing tennis?
Martin. Tennis. I haven't played tennis for about 12 months or so with Mum.
Q. Yeah. 'Cos Prince make, principally make tennis equipment, shoes and gear and racquets and.
Martin. Mmmm.
Q. Did you know that?
Martin. No I didn't.
Q. Ohh.
Martin. No.
Q. Thanks Mr Warren.
Martin. Ohh with my girlfriend you reckon I bought that.
Q. I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
Martin, You, you said that you think I bought that bag in Myers. You said the.
Q. I said I believe you bought that in Myers or Fitzgeralds in the company of ahh, a young woman, yeah. And you said.
Martin. No.
Warren:
Q. Do you think you might, you could have done and you just can't remember or you?
Martin. No I don't recall having a sports bag, at the last time I bought a sports bag was, like this one I bought in Franklin.
So Martin remembers the bags he owned and where he bought them. He just doesn't recognise this bag that the shooter left at the scene of the crime.
2. The can of Solo. The shooter drank from the can while he ate on the balcony. No fingerprints or DNA from the can were presented to the court. There's not necessarily a conspiracy here - Martin's guilty plea short circuited the trial so there was no need to present evidence. But an inquiry should order the relevant tests be done to confirm Martin did drink from that can of Solo.
3. The plate and utensils. Same as the Solo can. The knife and fork should be fingerprinted and DNA tested for saliva
4. The video camera. Nobody knows if the camera was running at the time of the shooting, because the tape has never been released. Martin didn't take his camera with him to Roaring Beach, so either this isn't Martin's camera, or the shooter stole it to frame him. More from the transcript:
Q. You have got and I suppose you've used 'em when you've been overseas?
A. No, it's only a small camera.
Q. Small camera. Are you a good photographer?
A. Yeah, good photographer, yeah. Yeah.
Any inquiry should demand the video from Tas police to see if it was running during the shooting.
In summary: The only reason why Martin is in prison is his guilty plea. There is no evidence linking him to the Café shooting, and there is reasonable doubt that he was there. A retrial at the very least, and preferably in inquest, is what the victims and their families deserve.
The Lindt Café siege saw 3 dead, including the shooter. The inquest report is almost 500 pages:
http://www.lindtinquest.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/findings-and-recommendations.pdf
It's time the Port Arthur victims were honoured in the same way.
This video camera makes a very special appearance in my novel, The 2nd Empty Chair: The Port Arthur Paradox. You can buy it from any of the links in the side panel - it would make an awesome and thought-provoking Christmas present.
He put the tray on this table, set down the video camera and then opened the duffel bag. From it, he took the blue sports bag and at least two firearms: an AR15 SP1 Carbine and a USAS12 shotgun.
We all know what happened next.
This post won't dwell on the massacre itself, rather I want to raise the critical issues that this table represents. Let's start with what we can see:
1. The blue sports bag. The only information we have linking Martin to this bag is a statement by Petra Wilmot. Here's how Martin responded when the police asked him about it:
For readability, I've noted where Martin is speaking, keep in mind that often, we mumble MM-MM to mean "no", usually while shaking our head. Because there's no video to accompany this, it's difficult to determine if Martin is mumbling "MMM" for "yes" or "MM-MM" for "no":
PAINE
Q. Martin, I'm gonna just get Mr Warren to pick up that ahh, sports bag on the floor and show it to you.
Martin. It's a nice one isn't it.
Q. It's a very nice bag.
Martin. Mmm.
Q. Seen that before?
Martin. No never, never seen that before.
Q. Well I believe you.
Martin. I've got a couple of sports bags. I've got a rubber black one upstairs at Clare Street I bought ...(inaudible) ...
Q. Well I believe you bought that in Myers or Fitzgeralds or somewhere in town, accompanied with a, a young women earlier this year.
Martin. Earlier with a young woman, I don't recall buying that.
Q. You sure?
Martin. No, not at all. If I said that that was mine, I'd say that was mine but.
Q. Ohh.
Martin. No.
WARREN
Q. have you ever had a bag, a bag like that?
Martin. Bag like that, I've got a couple of sports bags. I've got a red one, I can't, ohh a bit like that and a blue one, just all blue at home but.
PAINE
Q. Do you recognise the brand name there?
Martin. No.
Q. It's a Prince brand.
Martin. Ugh ugh, no.
Q. Because it's funny, you said, did you say you liked playing tennis?
Martin. Tennis. I haven't played tennis for about 12 months or so with Mum.
Q. Yeah. 'Cos Prince make, principally make tennis equipment, shoes and gear and racquets and.
Martin. Mmmm.
Q. Did you know that?
Martin. No I didn't.
Q. Ohh.
Martin. No.
Q. Thanks Mr Warren.
Martin. Ohh with my girlfriend you reckon I bought that.
Q. I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
Martin, You, you said that you think I bought that bag in Myers. You said the.
Q. I said I believe you bought that in Myers or Fitzgeralds in the company of ahh, a young woman, yeah. And you said.
Martin. No.
Warren:
Q. Do you think you might, you could have done and you just can't remember or you?
Martin. No I don't recall having a sports bag, at the last time I bought a sports bag was, like this one I bought in Franklin.
So Martin remembers the bags he owned and where he bought them. He just doesn't recognise this bag that the shooter left at the scene of the crime.
2. The can of Solo. The shooter drank from the can while he ate on the balcony. No fingerprints or DNA from the can were presented to the court. There's not necessarily a conspiracy here - Martin's guilty plea short circuited the trial so there was no need to present evidence. But an inquiry should order the relevant tests be done to confirm Martin did drink from that can of Solo.
3. The plate and utensils. Same as the Solo can. The knife and fork should be fingerprinted and DNA tested for saliva
4. The video camera. Nobody knows if the camera was running at the time of the shooting, because the tape has never been released. Martin didn't take his camera with him to Roaring Beach, so either this isn't Martin's camera, or the shooter stole it to frame him. More from the transcript:
Q. Martin, on the day you went to Roaring Beach at Port Arthur,
Seascape, did you take your camera with you, a movie camera?
A. Did I take a movie camera, no I didn't take a movie camera but I
have got a movie camera. Q. You have got and I suppose you've used 'em when you've been overseas?
A. No, it's only a small camera.
Q. Small camera. Are you a good photographer?
A. Yeah, good photographer, yeah. Yeah.
Any inquiry should demand the video from Tas police to see if it was running during the shooting.
In summary: The only reason why Martin is in prison is his guilty plea. There is no evidence linking him to the Café shooting, and there is reasonable doubt that he was there. A retrial at the very least, and preferably in inquest, is what the victims and their families deserve.
The Lindt Café siege saw 3 dead, including the shooter. The inquest report is almost 500 pages:
http://www.lindtinquest.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/findings-and-recommendations.pdf
It's time the Port Arthur victims were honoured in the same way.
This video camera makes a very special appearance in my novel, The 2nd Empty Chair: The Port Arthur Paradox. You can buy it from any of the links in the side panel - it would make an awesome and thought-provoking Christmas present.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Transcript
There's a reason the full video of the Martin Bryant interview has not been released to the public. Only snippets have been shown on TV or youtube, out of context so that he appears guilty.
But when you read the transcript, several things become clear:
The police were not interested in following up inconsistencies like the Fortescue Bay kidnapping, or where the FN FAL came from, or how the shooter knew the unpublished new phone number for Nubeena Police Station.
Martin clearly says he never drove into Port Arthur because he couldn't afford the entry fee.
More curiously, he admits to buying the ex-police AR15 and USAS12 shotgun, but denies seeing the .308 FN FAL a total of seven times. Why lie about one after admitting to the other two?
He also says he left a woman and child by the side of the road when hijacking the BMW, but this is not what eyewitnesses like Nicholas Cheok saw. Any junior defence lawyer would have torn this flimsy evidence apart in court, a situation which required John Avery to tell Martin that his mother would never come and see him again unless he pled guilty. By then, the illegal and immoral newspaper coverage had sealed his image in the public mindset as the killer.
No matter what you think of the case, you really should read the interview transcript. It forms the basis of my novel, which gives a plausible alternative using the existing evidence. Here's a link to the 8Mb PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xEXOZvgnED5GdRG3kevOpZEDkIrR2a6D/view?usp=sharing
There is reasonable doubt that Martin was alone inside Seacape.
There is no DNA evidence placing him in the cafe.
The facts demand an inquest so the truth can be told.
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Whistleblower
Here's a curly question for the few people who believe the official Port Arthur story: Why was it necessary to threaten Wendy Scurr into silence after she traveled around Australia, telling people what she saw?
Wendy was the first aid officer at the Port Arthur Historic Site that day. She treated American Gun Control activist Dennis Olson for shotgun wounds, in her own words "the shot size was about the same as farmers use".
Yet the prosecution did not present Dennis Olson's witness statement to the court, neither did they include the shotgun in the list of firearms used by the gunman.
The judge specifically asks if the shotgun was used and Bugg QC says "No, it wasn't. It remained in the boot of the Volvo."
So if the prosecution got this detail wrong, it begs the question: what else did they get wrong?
So if the prosecution got this detail wrong, it begs the question: what else did they get wrong?
Inquest required.
Where's the DNA evidence from the cutlery the cafe shooter used, proving it was Martin?
Bugg QC told Wendy she would not be called as a witness, despite having stayed at the crime scene all day and helping the traumatised and wounded.
Wendy toured around Australia, giving lectures and interviews about what she saw and exposing the inconsistencies in the case. One day, she received a package to her home address: a plaque that said "Quit 1996" - the threat was clear: we know where you live. Stop blowing the whistle on this.
So, if Martin was guilty of this crime, why was it necessary the threaten Wendy into silence? Why not just prove her wrong with the facts and evidence? Surely there is an explanation which reconciles all the facts and witness statements into a single story that is very close to the truth...
This incident is not a conspiracy theory, fantasy or conjecture. It happened.
Here are the photos of the plaque and envelope. You can read the story at this link:
If you believe Martin Bryant was truly guilty, then you need to ask yourself: why was Wendy Scurr and her family threatened into silence?
And if someone would send death threats to a middle-aged woman and her family, surely that person or persons are capable of other evil, like setting up a mentally ill man for mass murder.
This explosive new thriller presents a plausible, possible alternative that fits the facts and witness statements closer than the official story. You can get it on Amazon or Lulu if Amazon won't ship to Australia.
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The plaque with a simple message: Quit 1996
The envelope sent to Wendy's home
Scope-blocked
There is a lot of debate about the skills and marksmanship of the Port Arthur shooter in the Broad Arrow cafe. Many say that hitting 19 people in 21 seconds requires Special Forces training, while others say that Martin Bryant had experience shooting rabbits with an air rifle, and the close range made it easy to hit targets.
My research suggests that both groups fail to understand the situation properly, and after reading this, will hopefully move closer to a middle position.
The main rifle used in the cafe was a Colt AR15 SP1 carbine. This had a 4x20 Colt handle scope mounted on the carry handle. The scope is generally sighted in at 100m, confirmed by a contact of mine who used the exact same rifle in competitions before April 1996. This experienced shooter said the scope would be utterly useless at the close ranges inside the cafe, and would block the view of the target. This opinion is supported by other evidence: for example, some sports shooters install backup iron sights at 45 degrees on the barrel, for this exact type of test - see photos.
Neither my contact nor Martin's AR15 had backup iron sights.
So the scope was useless inside the cafe, actively hindering the shooter from acquiring a quick sight picture, particularly from making 19 accurate shots in 21 seconds, as proven by the video tape soundtrack.
So even if Martin was an experienced shooter with the scoped AR15 (which I doubt), the close range inside the cafe negated it completely.
So, was the shooter a "special forces" type marksman? I don't believe this is necessary either. Point Shooting is a technique taught to infantry in many armies around the world, allowing a shooter to make aimed shots without using the sights. There are instructional videos on youtube, if you wish to learn it.
Any soldier or marksman who was trained in point shooting, would be able to make the fast, aimed shots demonstrated inside the cafe.
Martin was not trained in point shooting. He had fired less than 20 rounds through his AR15 and had never fired the shotgun as he was afraid of the recoil. His interest in firearms was collecting the guns used by his movie heroes, not actually shooting them.
Further, there is no DNA from the lunchtime utensils or cup used by the shooter to prove he was there. Interrogated by police, he repeatedly says that he could not afford the entry fee to Port Arthur, despite wanting to go in, so he drove past.
The guilty plea that John Avery maliciously betrayed and manipulated his client into making is the only reason Martin is in prison. If the evidence could be cross examined, there is no way a guilty verdict would be delivered.
My novel uses witness statements and court documents to create a plausible alternative to the official story.
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Dropbox Files
Here is the link to the dropbox files from Paul Moder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9w9njrg4bkz584/Port%20Arthur%20Files.zip?dl=0
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