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badlymad ◊ 2011-01-03 00:02	Said to be a Commodore in the film.
MisterZ ◊ 2014-04-07 18:45	Plate returns: 1992
jpts ◊ 2015-01-16 17:37	This scene was based on the murders of Constables Damian Eyre and Steve Tynan who were both shot by the Flemington Armed Robbery Crew in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Victoria in the early hours of the 12th October 1988. The constables' murders were known as the Walsh Street Police Murders. In the original case notes on the killings in 1988, the two officers were from the Victoria Police Prahan Branch and were operating a marked police divisional van, bearing the call-sign *Prahan 311, when they went sent to check out an abandoned Holden Commodore sedan, bearing Victoria registration BDQ-988. At the time, the South Yarra area was usually patrolled by units from the Victoria Police St. Kilda Road Branch, but on the night of the murder, the St. Kilda Road police station didn't have enough officers on duty to send a police divisional van. Usually, the call would've been diverted to the police units from the Victoria Police South Melbourne Branch, but on the night of the murders, the only South Melbourne police unit on patrol (another marked police divisional van, bearing the call-sign, South Melbourne 150, operated by a female constable and a male constable) was called to deal with a suspected suicide in St. Kilda, so the call was diverted to the first available police divisional van, Prahan 311. When they arrived, Tynan and Eyre discovered the car's lights were on, the driver's side door was open, and the ignition switch had been pulled out, confirming the suspicion that it was stolen. As the officers checked the driver's side of the car, and the car's registration label on the windscreen, the gunmen from the Flemington Crew appeared and ambushed both officers, Tynan shot by a shotgun fired by one gunman as he was sitting in the driving seat, while Eyre was also shot by the shotgun, but he struggled with the shooter for the shotgun. As Eyre was struggled with the gunman for the shotgun, another member of the Flemington Crew came up and grabbed Eyre's Smith and Wesson Model 10 38. K Frame service revolver and shot Eyre twice in the head. Following multiple calls of shots fired in Walsh Street, the Victoria Police communications officer on duty, Sergeant Ron Beaton at the Communications Centre call-sign, D24 started calling Prahan 311, but got no response. After a few times, Sergeant Beaton put a call out to any available police units to head to Walsh Street, where Prahan 311 was sent. The first officers to reach Prahan 311 were officers from the Victoria Police South Melbourne Branch, operating a marked patrol car, call-sign South Melbourne 250* who shouted over the radio for an ambulance to be sent. The shotgun was later found buried in a garden bed at a local golf course in Melbourne's inner-city area in May 1989 and was later linked to four bank robberies committed by Flemington Armed Robbery Crew between November 1987 and August 1988. Shell casings left at Walsh Street later matched to shell casings left at the scene of a failed raid on the State Bank Oak Park Branch at Oak Park, Victoria that was robbed by the Flemington Crew on the morning of the 31st March 1988. In a series of interviews with the detectives, Jason Ryan, the nephew of the Flemington Armed Robbery Crew leader, Victor Peirce stated that his uncles, Victor Peirce, and Trevor Pettingill along with Peter McVoy, Ryan's friend, Anthony Farrell, and Jedd Houghton were responsible for the Walsh Street Police Murders. Ryan also named car thief Gary Abdallah as the one who stole the Commodore used to lure the officers into the ambush. Abdallah was a known associate of the Flemington Crew, as a car thief, Abdallah was the one who stole the cars for the Flemington Crew use in their robberies. Soon after the murders, Jedd Houghton, believing that the detectives were onto him and were planning to having him killed in revenge, fled Melbourne with his girlfriend, Kim Cameron and headed to Bendigo where they stayed at the home of a associate, Paul Widdicombe and his family. A short time later, Widdicombe was identified as a associate of the Flemington Crew, and was later raided by the detectives and members of the Victoria Police Special Operation Group. Acting on the information from Widdicombe, Houghton was later tracked down to a rented cabin at the Big4 Holiday Park near Widdicombe's home, where on the morning of the 17th November 1988, members of the SOG conducted a raid on the cabin. In the raid, Houghton produced a Ruger .357 Revolver and was shot three times in the chest with shotguns fired by SOG officers, Sergeant Paul Carr and Senior Constable Anthony Currie, killing him also instantly. Kim Cameron seeing that Houghton was shot, ran out of the cabin screaming when she was tackled by other members of the SOG and had her hands zipped tied behind her back and had a black bag placed over her head. At a later inquest into the killing of Jedd Houghton, Widdicombe stated that the information regarding to Houghton's rented cabin, was obtained under duress after one of the detectives grabbed one of Widdicombe's children and placed the barrel of their service revolver against the child's head. While the detectives denied Widdicombe's claims, in the case of Kim Cameron, the SOG officer who planned the raid on Houghton's cabin, stated that while nothing was said in the SOG briefing about Cameron being a threat, SOG had to treat Cameron as a possible threat until it was determine that Cameron was not threat. -- Last edit: 2024-02-22 17:35:47

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badlymad

◊ 2011-01-03 00:02

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Said to be a Commodore in the film.

MisterZ

◊ 2014-04-07 18:45

Plate returns: 1992

jpts

◊ 2015-01-16 17:37

This scene was based on the murders of Constables Damian Eyre and Steve Tynan who were both shot by the Flemington Armed Robbery Crew in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Victoria in the early hours of the 12th October 1988.

The constables' murders were known as the Walsh Street Police Murders.

In the original case notes on the killings in 1988, the two officers were from the Victoria Police Prahan Branch and were operating a marked police divisional van, bearing the call-sign Prahan 311, when they went sent to check out an abandoned Holden Commodore sedan, bearing Victoria registration BDQ-988.

At the time, the South Yarra area was usually patrolled by units from the Victoria Police St. Kilda Road Branch, but on the night of the murder, the St. Kilda Road police station didn't have enough officers on duty to send a police divisional van.

Usually, the call would've been diverted to the police units from the Victoria Police South Melbourne Branch, but on the night of the murders, the only South Melbourne police unit on patrol (another marked police divisional van, bearing the call-sign, South Melbourne 150, operated by a female constable and a male constable) was called to deal with a suspected suicide in St. Kilda, so the call was diverted to the first available police divisional van, Prahan 311.

When they arrived, Tynan and Eyre discovered the car's lights were on, the driver's side door was open, and the ignition switch had been pulled out, confirming the suspicion that it was stolen.

As the officers checked the driver's side of the car, and the car's registration label on the windscreen, the gunmen from the Flemington Crew appeared and ambushed both officers, Tynan shot by a shotgun fired by one gunman as he was sitting in the driving seat, while Eyre was also shot by the shotgun, but he struggled with the shooter for the shotgun.

As Eyre was struggled with the gunman for the shotgun, another member of the Flemington Crew came up and grabbed Eyre's Smith and Wesson Model 10 38. K Frame service revolver and shot Eyre twice in the head.

Following multiple calls of shots fired in Walsh Street, the Victoria Police communications officer on duty, Sergeant Ron Beaton at the Communications Centre call-sign, D24 started calling Prahan 311, but got no response.

After a few times, Sergeant Beaton put a call out to any available police units to head to Walsh Street, where Prahan 311 was sent.

The first officers to reach Prahan 311 were officers from the Victoria Police South Melbourne Branch, operating a marked patrol car, call-sign South Melbourne 250 who shouted over the radio for an ambulance to be sent.

The shotgun was later found buried in a garden bed at a local golf course in Melbourne's inner-city area in May 1989 and was later linked to four bank robberies committed by Flemington Armed Robbery Crew between November 1987 and August 1988.

Shell casings left at Walsh Street later matched to shell casings left at the scene of a failed raid on the State Bank Oak Park Branch at Oak Park, Victoria that was robbed by the Flemington Crew on the morning of the 31st March 1988.

In a series of interviews with the detectives, Jason Ryan, the nephew of the Flemington Armed Robbery Crew leader, Victor Peirce stated that his uncles, Victor Peirce, and Trevor Pettingill along with Peter McVoy, Ryan's friend, Anthony Farrell, and Jedd Houghton were responsible for the Walsh Street Police Murders.

Ryan also named car thief Gary Abdallah as the one who stole the Commodore used to lure the officers into the ambush.

Abdallah was a known associate of the Flemington Crew, as a car thief, Abdallah was the one who stole the cars for the Flemington Crew use in their robberies.

Soon after the murders, Jedd Houghton, believing that the detectives were onto him and were planning to having him killed in revenge, fled Melbourne with his girlfriend, Kim Cameron and headed to Bendigo where they stayed at the home of a associate, Paul Widdicombe and his family.

A short time later, Widdicombe was identified as a associate of the Flemington Crew, and was later raided by the detectives and members of the Victoria Police Special Operation Group.

Acting on the information from Widdicombe, Houghton was later tracked down to a rented cabin at the Big4 Holiday Park near Widdicombe's home, where on the morning of the 17th November 1988, members of the SOG conducted a raid on the cabin.

In the raid, Houghton produced a Ruger .357 Revolver and was shot three times in the chest with shotguns fired by SOG officers, Sergeant Paul Carr and Senior Constable Anthony Currie, killing him also instantly.

Kim Cameron seeing that Houghton was shot, ran out of the cabin screaming when she was tackled by other members of the SOG and had her hands zipped tied behind her back and had a black bag placed over her head.

At a later inquest into the killing of Jedd Houghton, Widdicombe stated that the information regarding to Houghton's rented cabin, was obtained under duress after one of the detectives grabbed one of Widdicombe's children and placed the barrel of their service revolver against the child's head.

While the detectives denied Widdicombe's claims, in the case of Kim Cameron, the SOG officer who planned the raid on Houghton's cabin, stated that while nothing was said in the SOG briefing about Cameron being a threat, SOG had to treat Cameron as a possible threat until it was determine that Cameron was not threat.

-- Last edit: 2024-02-22 17:35:47

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