Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Vehicles

Martin Bryant's yellow Volvo is one of the most famous vehicles in Australia.
People familiar with the Port Arthur Massacre also recognise the gold BMW, burned by SOG Constable Andrew Fogarty on the Seascape grounds.

After Seascape burned down, you can clearly see the burned-out BMW beside the trees to the rear of the property.

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.


I want to know what happened to David and Sally Martin's car.

In the Prison Interview, Martin says that David and Sally Martin owned a Volvo:

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?





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?

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.

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?

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.



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The 2nd Empty Chair is a fiction novel, based on the witness statements and court documents. Using poetic licence, it links the facts that we know into a plausible, possible narrative that 'pokes more holes in the official story than a Pastafarian's colander.'