The Real Martin Bryant
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This is the real Martin Bryant. Picture taken a few years before Port Arthur - a nice young lad who loved animals. ( Picture courtesy of Joe Vialls ).
This is how Martin looked until about 2 years before Port Arthur before someone got him to grow his hair long. Martin had SHORT HAIR.
Here is Martin and his long hair sometime in the months before the massacre.
Many people will recall how the media in Australia 24 hours afterwards had this picture ( below ) of Martin - particularly plastered all over the front page of newspapers. Apart from the fact this was totally in contempt of and prejudicial to any future court proceedings there was a suggestion at one point they had whitened the eyes to make him look more scary. It is possible this picture may have been deliberately altered to create this unfavourable image to ensure the public swallowed the story Martin was a lone "nut" gunman.
This is the image the authorities and media created for Martin.
A total denial of natural justice.
There is also the unanswered question as to how the media came to obtain this photograph and so quickly. WHO gave them the picture ?
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