So, citizen detectives have tried to re-enact the events of the Hoodle Street shooting spree buy drinbg around Cliftion Hill in their car and armed with only the media reporting, tried to second guess the movememts of Julian Knight on late Saturday night of 9th August 1987. Here’s one that guesses incorrectly.
So this video below was posted on YouTube in 2018, some 31 years after the event by this bloke who claims to be a local (likely adjacent Fitzroy North) conveys a young voice over which suggests that he wasn’t even born at the time in 1987.
So he’s a budding historian for fans of the ‘Casefile’ channel on YouTube?
Dean here is seeking online celebrity status from his short 4 minute 2018 video reenactment car cruise effort of the 1987 scene of this historic serious mass crime. Is he aware that the perpetrator and many of the victims and their families and friends are still living?
Now such mass murder crimes remain still rare in Melbourne and indeed in Australia, so it is understandable that members of the public, especially locals, have an interest in understanding such serious crimes that have taken place in their local area – that is the ‘WHAT?’ happened.
But even better, wise up to better understand the motivations and causations of those crimes that were committed by a neighbour – ‘The WHY’?’
That is not normal.
So why not question the abnormality of the spontaneous mass murder of random motorists by an otherwise normal neighbour, indeed one accepted by the Royal Military College of Australia as an elite candidate accepted just 8 months prior to be trained as a leader for the Australian Army as an Army officer?
But why second guess? Rather best to contact Mr Knight himself since he maintains detailed recollection of his movements, the route and the timeline of events that night.
Also read this insightful website of Mr Knight.
Get your facts correct, rather than delve into constructed sensationalist fiction! Are you fantasizing being a Hercule Poirot by car 31 years after this mass crime?
Don’t embark on a career in journalism Mr Laffan. You risk following in the juicy footsteps of one Darryn Lyons (born 19 August 1965), a UK import paparazzi photographer who became controversial mayor of Geelong, but was more notorious for previously photographing Princess Dianna in a Paris motorway tunnel as reported she lay motionless on the rear seat of the Mercedes Benz car immediately after the high speed 105 kph crash on 31st August 1997:
“At 0023 hrs, driver Henri Paul (purportedly whilst fleeing the paparazzi) lost control of the car at the entrance to the Pont de l’Alma underpass. The car reportedly struck a passing white Fiat, swerved to the left of the two-lane carriageway and collided head-on with the 13th pillar that supported the roof. It was travelling at an estimated speed of 105 km/h (65 mph)[26] – more than twice the 50 kph speed limit of the tunnel. It then spun, hit the stone wall of the tunnel backwards and finally came to a stop. The impact caused substantial damage, particularly to the front half of the vehicle, as there was no guard rail to prevent this. Witnesses arriving shortly after the crash reported smoke. They also reported that photographers on motorcycles “swarmed the Mercedes sedan before it entered the tunnel”. Darryn Lyons included.
[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales]
