THE WLODARCZYK KILLING: TERROR BECOMES HORROR, KAY CHAMBERS IS
DEAD!
In July 1994 Kay Chambers and Paul Johannsen were extradited
from Sydney to face charges in the Brisbane Supreme Court
resulting from the 1975 mutilation killing of this popular
and loyal member of The Painters and Dockers union. In
response to demands this journal published in May and June
and to telephone inquiries re the status of the case re what
was the delay in bringing this matter to trial. A Justice
Department spokesman replied 11 July 1996, that there would
be no trial, that Johannsen had been released from custody
early 1996 and that Chambers had committed suicide by
jumping from a tall building in Sydney in November 1995
after having been released from custody in Brisbane a short
time before.
At the July 94 extradition hearing in Sydney, Chambers
pleaded, screaming
to the judge not to send her to Brisbane, shrieking that she
had been shot in the head in that city shortly after John
Wlodarczyk's death, in what was clearly an attempt to kill
her. When asked of the probity of the delay in proceeding
with the trial The Justice Dept. man replied that the
question of probity was not for him. He garbled some bull
about defense lawyers making applications, evading the issue
of the delay asked why did not the trial proceed immediately
the pair arrived in Brisbane that she appeared to have been
in custody for at least thirteen months remanded, charged in
relation to a nineteen year old murder investigation. And
was he aware that this union had been pursuing this matter
independently and had made statements in court, and to the
police and to the Criminal Justice Commission since 1992
regarding the activities of a man called Stretch Johannsen
who was said, by the same source that was ultimately to name
Smith as the murderer of Batkin ie the dockyard grapevine,
to have along with a woman accomplice killed John Wlodarczyk
aka John Grosvenor aka Mexican Johnny. The JD man remained
aloof,
The Union insisted that probity was lacking, evidenced
circumstantially by
the death of this woman, which lack of probity we have alleged
consistently is tied to terrorism on the docks, and wanton
and serious corruption among the police, at the CJC and in
parliament. However the most serious Corruption, and the
place where probity has least place we allege, is within The
Crown Law Department, The Public Prosecutors Office. The JD
fellow was become a tad churlish by then, we persisted.
Peter Beattie was Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commission
Committee Chairperson when the union approached him in 1992
additionally he was Member for Brisbane, the electorate in
which the union office is located. We told him that corrupt
murderous elements from within and without the union were in
the process of hijacking the electoral process within the
organization, and that the mob at Australian Industrial
Relations Commission were getting cute re their role in
proceedings, and that members had been openly threatened, in
company, with murder. That threats had proceeded the deaths
of Ron Chapman and Les Batkin, dead up until then as we told
Beattie, and Merv Collins and now Kay Chambers since.
ITEM: Xenophon Zervos, was shot dead as he was getting into
his car at his
home in the Brisbane suburb of Holland Park, on the early
morning of March 26 1986. In 1988 Constable Butler told the
Fitzgerald Inquiry, an inquiry into police malfeasance
formed on the initiative of Bill Gunn
then
Police Minister and Deputy Premier, that Mr Zervos had been
the victim of professional assassins, recruited from the
dockers union, by police to murder another policeman, a
Detective Constable Salvatore di Carlo. Butler alleges the
murderers went to the wrong address and fired on a man whose
fate was the random result of human error, and that di Carlo
was on the wrong side of his workmates because
investigations he was proceeding with were sensitive and
involved a firebombing at a Fortitude Valley nightclub in
1973 In which fifteen people died.
Mr Zervos was it appears, related by marriage to Salvatore di
Carlo.
In which case the plot is
somewhat thicker than it would otherwise have been had that
not been the case. di Carlo's lot has prospered, he has gone
from undercover copper where his role was allegedly to
infiltrate criminal society, gain the confidence and the
friendship of any poor lonely stiff he could, then fix him
up with criminal charges. Now its Sammy di Carlo Barrister
at law. Who, until he instituted a policy of omerta toward
the jolly old dockies union, was quite a source of
knowledge.
Sammy, there's a stone in my shoe about the whole thing.
Particularly about
threats that were broadcast re Merv Collins, that Merv was a
stone in somebody's shoe re the Zervos thing.
ITEM: 1978 The coroner recommends Vincent O'Dempsy and Pat
Glancy be
charged with three counts of murder, in a crime that may well
be the most violent assault in Australian history. Evidence
linked the pair to police who wanted to urge a Billy
McCulken not to testify in a court case then pending which
concerned police corruption, the victims were Mr McCulkens
wife and daughters. The Crown Prosecutor did not proceed in
the matter issuing a terse statement to the effect that in
his opinion evidence which was valid in the Coroners Court
would be unable to be heard in
the Supreme Court because some of it was hearsay. No bodies
have ever been found, O'Dempsy is said to be the proprietor
of a private cemetery and an associate of Les Smith both of
whom are known associates of former Acting Police
Commissioner Ron Redmond.
Uncle Greg, The Fitzgerald Inquiry, and the charter of the
CJC, which was
to complete investigations into matters raised with
Fitzgerald, including allegations that Asian terror gangs
operating In the Fortitude Valley business district, that
were Importing and distributing heroin, relied on the
services of Police Superintendent Greg Early to ensure the
smooth running of their drug operations from the outside
while homicide kept order within. Witnesses told of murder
committed at Cleveland. More shame.
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