Hi y’all. I have often wondered about that photo and the shirtless man in the background (along with the man leaning into the car, and the female on the phone at the back – his folks maybe?). Seeing the pic this time around, I am wondering whether Gerard is actually lying on the footpath and a passer-by was ‘comforting’ him.
On another note… I found it interesting last week while I was out helping a friend with some photography, near that fateful bridge – where Allison was discarded like a piece of rubbish by a real piece of rubbish. It was a busy Sunday with lots of traffic but what interested me was the fact that we could hear noises that were travelling to us from so many different locations. We were up high on a point just beyond that bridge. We could hear the music from a Mr Whippy van away in the distance across the river in one of the estates, a couple speaking in a boat down on the river, home phones ringing (no houses close to where we were), the passing traffic of course, birds singing etc.
So to be able to hear such noises in the middle of the day while everybody was going about their normal day, made me wonder how far and clearly, any noises made at the bridge in the dead of night (gives new meaning to that term doesn’t it?) might travel. I live around 15 minutes travel to the centre of town, and when the conditions are right, we can hear the town clock strike. Imagine some desperate killer/killers going about their business, believing that the darkness of night would blanket out their movements and voices…. And to think that GBW’s previous lawyer had the audacity to belittle good and innocent people who came forward with their knowledge and memories of the night in an attempt to help find justice.
The word justice, for some reason and most likely the fact that so many unforgivable atrocities have occurred in recent times as a result of it not being visible, remind me of that RACQ advertisement…. ‘Charter boat, charter boat…what charter boat?’ Fingers crossed that sanity prevails and we can say we have seen justice for Allison (of course not stalking Justice for Allison, as in the poster), as opposed to losing faith in the entire system and how justice might be perceived.
Many posts have alluded to the fact that there is the possibility of a ‘family-affair’, so to speak, in the demise of Allison, or disposal of her body, on that fateful night. If in fact that is the case, then
it defies belief that not only one, but a group of individuals, could be aware of this knowledge and feel it reasonable for selfish and deadly reasons, to maintain silence. To my mind, it is extremely disturbing to think that not one of those people have cracked/spilled the beans/confessed to clear their conscience, as it further reinforces the black and dangerous world in which Allison found herself living. It also is evidence of the fact that some people are ‘born without a conscience’.
As I have repeated several times over, I truly believe that Allison was only too aware of this black and dangerous and toxic web that had caught her and taken her by surprise, or that she unwittingly became entangled. Personally, I feel that the thought of sharing custody of the children would have given her angst, and to the time of her death, been biding time and weighing up her options to extricate herself and the girls in the safest possible way as to leave might also have been black and dangerous. She was damned if she did, and damned if she didn’t.
The facade and code of silence maintained to this point in time, is indicative of what capacity GBC and his family may have had in damaging Allison’s reputation to ensure custody arrangements went their way. He would have had no capacity to
pay maintenance, but more importantly, Allison would (again only my opinion and my thoughts), have done anything to ensure the best, safest and most emotionally nurturing environment was available to the girls.