The Sports Bag(s) - Green & Blue
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Evidence That Points To A Deception At Port Arthur
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After the massacre a blue Prince sports bag ( like the one in the photo left ) was allegedly found in the Broad Arrow Cafe with items belonging to Martin Bryant. They included a video camera and a knife blood stained with blood allegedly from David Martin owner of Seascape wrapped in a towel. A very convenient find.
The problem with this is the gunman who entered the Cafe was seen carrying a large old style video camera on his shoulder and a long sports bag whose colour was mainly green. It was not a blue bag and it was not a tennis bag like this blue Prince one. On a previous webpage we have deduced there were 2 bags taken into the Cafe - the blue Prince one inside this other long green bag.
The PROOF there were 2 different bags comes not only from deduction and video footage but from eye witnesses who saw these bags.
All witnesses who saw the gunman enter the Cafe only mention ONE long bag ( heavy looking ) and the video camera - both slung over his shoulders. One bag.
Fortunately there is one witness who was both in the Cafe and outside the at the buses who saw the gunman at both locations. That witness - Betty Davies - saw the gunman waiting in line to get food with a GREEN sports bag 15 minutes before the shooting started . Shortly afterwards while waiting in the tour bus she saw the gunman leave the Cafe carrying this same GREEN sports bag and place it in the boot of the yellow.Volvo.
Click here to see Davies statement
at page 1 fifth paragraph, and page 2 third paragraph.
Other people there in the Cafe also saw this bag and noticed how long and awkward it was, as did others outside near the car park see a bag being put into the boot of the Volvo.
Just after the gunman left the Cafe ( at the SAME TIME Davies was seeing the green bag being put into the Volvo ) another witness - Marlene Sharp - who had been inside the Cafe during the mayhem and survived noticed a BLUE and White Prince sports bag sitting on one of the tables open which was seen to contain a towel some clothing and a rope ( no video camera seen )
Click here to see Sharp's statement
at 3rd last paragraph.
It is this bag that corresponds to the picture above.
But the problem with all this is these facts conclusively prove one bag was taken in and the same bag was taken out and a blue bag was left behind secretly without anyone noticing it being dumped and it just happened to contain a blood stained knife which is linked to Seascape. Nobody sees this blue bag being taken in. Its all very convenient. This is known in police and crime circles as THE DROP - in this case the planting of evidence. And they almost got away with it.
There are only 2 ways this blue bag could have got there - if it was inside the green one, or someone else placed it there.
There was a strange 20 second pause in the shooting just before the gunman left the Cafe when this blue bag could have been removed from the long green bag when nobody was looking.
The video camera - which was large and bulky - was left near the blue bag.
What it really means is this covertly appearing blue bag was setting poor old Marty Bryant up as the bunny. While all this was going on he was nowhere near Port Arthur Historic Site.
Note: both of these witness statements were made within 48 hours of the massacre. Davies on 29 April and Sharp on 30 April. They are therefore can be assumed to be reliable as to colours of bags.
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