The Magic Ammo Bag
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Serious Irregularities In Evidence At Port Arthur
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After the massacre at Port Arthur Tasmanian Police claimed a bag containing over 400 rounds of .308 ammunition had been found in the back of the yellow VOLVO left behind by the gunman at the tollbooth. An analysis of the photographic evidence reveals this bag of ammo magically materialized after the Volvo was taken to Police Headquarters in Hobart. Sgt Gerrard Dutton left holding the magic bag.
Below are two frames from the official police evidence video taken on the morning of 29 April 1996 the day after the massacre showing the boot of the Volvo. It does not show this bag of ammo being there but does show a Daewoo shotgun, some paper targets and and purple & white cloth. The shotgun and cloth presumably out of visibility in the first frame below because of the rear panel with the muzzel of the gun next to the spare tyre on the left hand side of the boot. Full set 4 of frames below.
It is unlikely a bag of ammo or Martin Bryant could have done a Harry Houdini act and achieved a feat of magic making this bag materialize out thin air just as the Volvo arrived at Police Headquarters. Obviously the only conclusion one can come to is someone else put it there and Martin Bryant being custody in Hobart Hospital at that time makes it impossible for him to have been the one who did.
Just as an observational point looking at Dutton holding the bag and the box it came out of on the left one can see how large it is and its volume. A great effort to emphisize the existance of this bag of ammo was made in his media interviews.
Apart from the photographic evidence the Tasmanian Coroner does not mention seeing this bag of ammo in the Volvo in his report in which he makes reference to all weapon related items including the paper targets.
Refer Coroners Report ( on page 91 - second page top right paragraph ).
He inspected the site sometime just after 8pm on the evening on 28 April 1996.
He states
" Inside the open boot of the Volvo could be seen firearms and a small white gun shooting target that appeared to have been used. Within the passenger compartment were several petrol containers".
The question arises what OTHER firearms did he see because only one - the Daewoo shotgun - was there the next morning when the video was taken. Were they removed in the dead of night after the Coroner had gone ? How many other firearms were there and was one of them the real actual Colt .223 rifle used in the Cafe that police didn't want found either at all or at that particular time ? Was the firearm that went walkabout from this boot the one that conveniently appeared unburnt in the ashes of Seascape the next day ?
So here we have an unknown number of firearms dissappearing from the boot of the Volvo overnight and a bag of ammunition magically appearing in the same boot soon afterwards.
EDITORS NOTE :
This shenanigans bears a great similarity to the magic bullet theory that the Warren Commission invented to try and explain away how John F Kennedy and Texas Governor Connelly could be shot with the same bullet when they were not sitting in the same line of sight.
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