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up inconsistencies like the Fortescue Bay kidnapping, or where the FN FAL came from, or how the shooter knew the unpublished new phone number for Nubeena Police Station.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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