Destruction of Evidence
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This is the yellow Volvo driven by the Port Arthur gunman left behind at the tollgate - picture taken 29 April 1996. Allegedly it was the one that belonged to Martin Bryant.
There were no fingerprints obtained from this car of the gunman because it was left open overnight and dew destroyed whatever was there. Why that was allowed to happen needs an explanation. Was it done deliberately ? ( Police would have been aware of the fact dew destroys fingerprints )
Did someone not want the gunman's prints to be found ?
A similar thing happened at the Broad Arrow Cafe ( pictures left taken day after the massacre ) where police did not arrive to secure the crime scene until 7.30 pm - 5 hours after the gunman was known to be hold up at Seascape. During the period up to that time the Cafe was open to anyone and reportedly tourists souvineered spent cartridges from the floor and people went in for food and drinks. It was not until the following day did the cleanup and forensics begin.
How could such things be allowed to happen if a proper police investigation was to occurr ? And was this in breach of standard police crime scene procedures ?
What were the reported 200 police at the town of TARANNA just north of Seascape doing all that afternoon and night ? Were they at the local pub waiting for orders ? Or were they told not to go to Port Arthur until the evidence had got so messed up it was ok to do so ? Who was it that held them back that day ? Why was forensics not sent to Port Arthur immediately ? All of this needs explaining.
All of this leads one to the conclusion someone didn't want the evidence preserved at the Port Arthur Historic Site just as it was also not preserved at Seascape the following morning as a result of the fire which was allowed to burn until the building was gone. Two major crime scenes - at both key evidence allowed to be destroyed.
If Martin Bryant acted alone there would had been no need to allow evidence to be destroyed like it was and this fact backs up the assertion on other pages of this site the Port Arthur gunman was NOT Martin Bryant.
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