Victim Describes Cafe Gunman
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Evidence That Proves A Deception At Port Arthur
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Graham Collyer was in the Broad Arrow Cafe at sometime around 12.30pm and eyewitnessed the gunman enter the cafe carrying a long sports bag. Later Graham was shot in the throat by the gunman and was one of the few people to see him and live to tell about it. His statement BELOW gives us an accurate description of the gunman ( this is page 2 of a 4 page statement and the most relevant page ).
What is of particular note here is the description of the hair length - "He had long blonde bedraggled hair 3 -4 ( inches* ) below the shoulder". This corroborates the photographic evidence on this website about the long hair below shoulder length Martin Bryant did not have. ( * The video evidence - right - indicates it was inches not centimetres ).
Also of note is Collyer's assessment of the gunman's age and face - 20 years and a pitted acne scarred face. MARTIN BRYANT WAS 29 AT THE TIME and had an unblemished face - see picture left. ( Collyer, who was an experienced former military man, is unlikely to have misjudged the age of the gunman ).
Of further note is the fact at the time he made his statement on 7th May 1996 ( a week after the massacre and still fresh in his mind ) he was in hospital and had not seen any media reports of Martin Bryant that had been deliberately allowed to be plastered everywhere and had interfered with many other witnesses recollections.
Another unexplained irregularity is Collyer was recovering in Hobart Hospital only metres away from where Martin Bryant was also recovering from the burns he suffered in the Seascape fire yet Collyer was never asked to go round and identify him. Why was that ? Did someone not want him to say "It wasn't him" ?
Click here to see Collyer's full statement.
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