The Sports Bag(s) ----

Evidence That Points To A Deception At Port Arthur -------------------- Email: editor@shootersnews.addr.com

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. A very convenient find.

The problem with this is the gunman who entered the Cafe was seen entering with only ONE long sports bag carrying his rifles and he was later filmed putting a sports bag in the back of the yellow Volvo. As the gunman was seen entering the Broad Arrow Cafe with only had one sports bag so the question must be asked where did this other sports bag come from and how did it get into the Cafe and left on a table ?

The obvious answer is someone else brought it into the Cafe and left it there. If this is so then the gunman didn't act alone. The only other alternative to this is the gunman brought it in INSIDE the long sports bag and took it out and dumped it on a table in the pause just after the first volley of shots in the cafe while everyone was scrambling to get away. This website believes the latter of these possibilities it the more likely one.

Why this is relevant is because if the gunman deliberately left it there it shows a deliberate attempt to leave something of Martin Bryant's at the crime scene and the fact it was done in that pause in the shooting ( when everybody was running away and nobody looking ) reinforces this point that Bryant was being set-up. This was also repeated less covertly at the tollgate later when Bryant's yellow Volvo was left there containing his passport and the keys to Seascape.

It is an absurdity to suggest Martin Bryant if he had been the gunman would have been stupid enough to leave the blue sportsbag with his stuff in it in the cafe ( and the Volvo, passport and keys ) given the alleged cleverness the DPP alleged he displayed elsewhere that day. There is no reason for him to have taken it there that day if he had planned to shoot the place up - he wasnt going there to film the place like a tourist. Same can be said about leaving his passport in the Volvo at the tollgate - it doesn't make sense.

Another relevant point that reinforces this conclusion is that when the gunman entered the Cafe he was also seen with a large old style video camera slung over his shoulder. It was placed on a table near this blue bag that nobody saw. Why this doesn't make sense is because this video camera had its own specific bag ( that you get when you buy a camera ). This camera bag was found in the Volvo at the tollagate and contained the keys to Seascape instead of where it would normally have been - housing this camera.

Grahame Collyer was a witness who clearly said the gunman who entered the Cafe had "a long bag". Refer below. It should also be pointed out the bag on this table is not long but standard size and couldn't house rifles. Collyer also says the gun he saw the gunman use was an SLR ( a .308 calibre & which is about 4 feet long ) and that the gunman had started firing the gun before he got it out of the bag.

Click here to see Collyer's full statement.

What is relevant to this is the fact Collyer said the gunman was using the longer SLR rifle in the Cafe and walked out with it - and we must assume along with the longer bag which contained a Colt AR-15 Carbine ( .223 calibre rifle ) that had fired the first volley of shots and whose magazine was empty - hence the need for the second gun. The SLR would not have fitted inside the blue Prince bag which appears to be somewhere between 2 and 3 feet long - most likely 2.5 feet. This fact confirms that the only possible way that blue Prince sports bag containing Martin Bryant's video camera could have got into the cafe was either inside that long bag Collyer saw or someone else brought it in. Both instances indicate Bryant being setup.

Also what is relevant is Collyer saw the gunman shooting the gun while it was still inside the long bag. And this blue bag was wasn't long enough to hold a rifle so it could only have been another bag - a longer in length.

It is inconceivable Bryant would have had brought 2 sports bags - one for the video camera - especially as witnesses who saw the gunman on the decking outside the Cafe said the camera was slung over his shoulder as he went inside just prior to the shooting starting. For some reason the camera was carefully placed next to the smaller Prince sports bag and it was put there for a purpose.

Upon the gunman's entry to the Cafe this blue bag was nowhere to be seen - only the long bag was seen - yet somehow at sometime this blue bag managed to not only to appear and get placed on the table near where the camera had been placed. This obviously did not happen before the shooting started otherwise the witnesses who were looking towards him would have noticed this. So the real truth is that IT WAS THE BLUE BAG THAT WAS LATER PLACED NEXT TO THE CAMERA before the gunman left the Cafe and the SWITCH was done deliberately unseen.

We have determined this blue Prince bag was left there for the sole purpose to link Martin Bryant to the Cafe crime scene when in fact he was never there. It was to be the NEAT PACKAGE - all in one bag - containing all the evidence linking him to the murder of the Martin's earlier that day at Seascape ( like a personal showbag - like a neon sign - saying "Martin Bryant was here" - I've left my calling card everyone ).

Why wasn't the camera inside the blue bag when he entered the Cafe one may ask ? The answer to that is detailed in the conclusion at the bottom of this page.


There is yet another inconsistency about the blue sports bag worth noting - again Ray Martin on Channel 9's Current Affair TV show nationally screened a video footage of a "Prince" sports presented to have been THE bag left in the Cafe by Martin Bryant - the Cafe gunman. See pics below. What you can also see in this picture is this bag sitting on a neatly arranged set of dining table and chairs and others in the background - as you would find if you walked into a cafe before trading began one morning. If this picture and bag was geniune the tables and chairs would have been in a shambles and scattered all over the place as a result of the turmoil and people scrambling for cover when the shooting began and food and plates etc everywhere. That is not what we see surrounding this blue bag. It is quite clear this picture must have been taken before the massacre. It is therefore a fabrication. Again here we have another false claim about Port Arthur and Martin Bryant by Ray Martin whose credibility has gone out the window.













There were no fingerprints on this bag - another strange state of affairs.

The comparison : Below is what the Broad Arrow Cafe looked like after the massacre - a mess - bits and pieces, chairs etc... all over the place. This mess is absent from the above images of the Prince sports bag and we must ask why ?














If in fact Martin Bryant had been the gunman everything would be straight forward regards evidence and there would be no inconsistencies like the Current Affair photo or the sports bag issue at all - yet here we have again in this case more inconsistencies which indicate tampering with evidence and false claims by authorities about evidence - and the question must be asked why would this be present if there was nothing shonky about the incident ?

All this fuss about this blue sports bag was about trying to hide the fact the gunman deliberately left it there in the Cafe to link Martin Bryant to having been there and to conceal the fact there were 2 bags taken in and only one bag visible when the gunman walked in. If people had noticed 2 bags had been taken in questions would have arisen as to why - it would have been OBVIOUS to most people it was a setup - dumping evidence at a crime scene. Also they wanted this bulky video camera seen with the gunman so it could be found later - that's why it wasn't in either the blue sports bag or its own camera bag. Since the massacre Tasmanian authorities have been claiming the SLR rifle wasnt used in the cafe and only was used by the gunman outside - the reason for this is they know that that gun could not have fitted inside the blue prince sports bag. This claim is part of the attempt to coverup the fact there were 2 bags taken in to the Cafe and one was dumped there deliberately.

Given the fact the image of the sports bag above has been proven by us to be of questionable credibility we now have further justification for doubting aspects of the entire official story.


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