Seascape - Proof Of The Second Gunman
Details That Point to a Coverup At Port Arthur
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When the gunman arrived at Seascape somewhere around 2pm that afternoon Martin Bryant was alleged to have been shooting at police from Seascape and continued to do so throughout the night. Police did not shoot at him at any time that night. Inbetween this alleged shooting Bryant was on the phone to Tasmanian Police Negotiator Sgt. Terry McCarthy. Bryant ( who was calling himself "Jamie" ), talked to McCarthy about the hostages and various other things in a somewhat confused state on and off that night for several hours..
During the course of one of those conversations, sometime after 6.20pm, Bryant was recorded talking to McCarthy WHEN A SHOT IS HEARD ON TAPE in the background that was fired nearby - from one of the buildings at Seascape. It is impossible to have been Bryant firing it otherwise the blast would have deafened the phone. Also his voice cuts over it indicating the same. A copy of that recording can be downloaded below.
WHO FIRED THAT SHOT is the queston that needs answering.
This shot PROVES there was a SECOND GUNMAN at Seascape that night.
This also backs up Bryant's later statement warning McCarthy they were going to shoot their "main man" if a SOG Sniper did not back off.
Remember it is the whole DPP's case that Martin Bryant acted alone and nobody else was involved - the lone gunman claim. Well that notion has just been blown out of the water.
Was this shot the real gunman firing at police from the other building as was seen by those outside and agrees with other witness claims of at least another person being at Seascape ?
You can all hear it on the audio download below taken off Channel Nine's A CURRENT AFFAIR program with Mike Munro's voice talking to Terry McCarthy afterwards - and the segment with Bryant. The shot is heard in the background after Bryant says: ".....I'm making up some sandwiches....." - coming from nearby ( at the 35 seconds into the MP3 download ). The shot is most likely to have come from another room of the main Seascape building Bryant was located in - upstairs perhaps - but one thing is clear it did not originate from the room Bryant was in.
Download audio copy in mp3 format ( 400KB requires unzipping ). OR
Listen online to audio copy in mp3 format ( requires Windows Media Player Version 7 or similar - if you do not have it download it here
WMP7 ).
The complete video of this audio segment is on the CD ROM.
You can see from this picture of the main building at Seascape ( taken before the incident )
the type of building it is - wooden with tin roof. It is likely that the gunman shooting at police outside was firing from upstairs as downstairs, where the phone was located, is too low to get a field of visibilty of the surrounding area because the building was on downward sloping ground. The shot on the tape is consistent in tone with the muffling effect a wooden structure like this would produce if heard from downstairs.
NOTE: This site has not found any evidence Martin Bryant was even the first gunman - the one who shot the people in or outside the Broad Arrow Cafe in the Port Arthur Historic Site - in fact this site has evidence the gunman there was not him. There is however evidence there may have been two persons shooting from Seascape at one point but whether or not Bryant let off a few rounds into the bush that night is unclear. Accordingly the term "second gunman" used in this webpage relates to what happened solely at Seascape - that there was someone else there shooting.
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