On
this date, 18 June 2007, the 2007 Melbourne CBD shooting was an incident
that occurred in the Central Business District of Melbourne, Victoria on 18
June 2007. Three people were shot, one fatally, by Christopher Wayne Hudson,
31, a member of the Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club, who opened fire on two men and a woman during an argument on
the corner of William Street and Flinders Lane at about 8:20 am. Hudson fled
from the scene and went into hiding for two days, before turning himself in to
police on 20 June 2007 in Wallan, north of Melbourne.
In May 2008, Hudson
pleaded guilty to the murder of Brendan Keilar and was sentenced that September
to life imprisonment with a minimum of 35 years before becoming eligible for
parole.
I got the information
from Wikipedia and Murderpedia. Hudson is such a violent criminal and I hope
that he does not kill an inmate or a prison staff.
2007 Melbourne CBD shootings
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Location
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Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia
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Date
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18 June 2007
8:15 am (AEST) |
Weapon(s)
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Llama
MiniMax .40 S&W
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Deaths
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1
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Injured
(non-fatal)
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2
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Perpetrators
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Christopher
Wayne Hudson
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Christopher
Hudson
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| Christopher Wayne Hudson |
Christopher Wayne Hudson
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Conviction(s)
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Murder
Attempted murder x 2 Intentionally causing serious injury |
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Penalty
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Life
imprisonment
35 year non-parole period |
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Parents
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Terry
Hudson
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Classification: Murderer
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Characteristics: Member of the Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club - Argument
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Number of victims: 1
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Date of murder: June 17, 2007
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Date of arrest: 3 days later (surrenders)
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Date of birth: May 24, 1978
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Victim profile: Brendan Keilar, 43
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Method of murder: Shooting
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Status: Pleaded guilty. Sentenced to life
imprisonment with a minimum of 35 years before becoming eligible for parole
in September 2008
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| Christopher Wayne Hudson |
Christopher
Hudson was a full member of the Hells
Angels Motorcycle Club, having defected from rival group The Finks
in 2006. Shortly afterward, he was involved in a brawl between both clubs at a kickboxing
tournament on the Gold Coast and was shot in the chin. In the days before the
killing of Brendan Keilar, Hudson had fired at police in Campbellfield after a
night of heavy drinking with Collingwood footballer Alan Didak. On 28 June,
Didak was interviewed by police about this incident. Didak claimed that he was
intoxicated at the time, was not in control of the situation and was concerned
for his safety.
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A homicide squad detective checks the body of
the man shot dead in Melbourne's CBD.
Photo: Craig Abraham
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The view from a nearby building of the scene
of the Melbourne shootings on the corner of Flinders Lane and William Street. Photo: Sebastian
Costanzo
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Three people were shot, one fatally, by
Christopher Wayne Hudson, 31, a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who
opened fire on two men and a woman during an argument on the corner of William
Street and Flinders Lane in Melbourne.
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A police officer outside the Barcode
nightclub on Melbourne's Kings Street.
Photo: Jason South
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The
shootings
Hudson
spent the night of 17 June 2007 drinking at the Spearmint Rhino in King Street.
Early in the morning of 18 June, he assaulted stripper Autumn Daly-Holt, a
workmate of his girlfriend, 24-year old Kara Douglas. He then called Douglas,
who arrived to pick him up around 7:30 am. Hudson dragged her out onto the
street by her hair. At the corner of William Street and Flinders Lane, two male
bystanders, 43-year old solicitor Brendan Keilar and 25-year old Dutch
backpacker Paul de Waard attempted to assist Douglas. Hudson pulled a gun and
shot all three. Keilar was fatally wounded in the head. de Waard and Douglas
were shot in the upper body. Douglas later had a kidney removed as a result of
her injuries. Douglas, from Sydney, had been staying in the Punt Hill
apartments on Flinders Lane. Hudson fled the scene as Keilar died in the
street, dumping his weapon and jacket in a nearby construction site on Flinders
Street between Queen and Bond Streets, where they were found by a construction
worker about an hour later. The Rialto Towers were evacuated amid reports that
the gunman had fled into the tower, sparking a level-to-level search.
His
car was discovered abandoned on Flinders Lane between Swanston
and Elizabeth
Streets. The black Honda CRV with New South Wales licence plates was revealed
to be one vehicle owned by the gunman. His other vehicle was a black Mercedes-Benz sedan, later found in Richmond.
Still
high from a drug binge, Hudson fled to a Hells Angels safehouse north of the
city. At 5 pm on 20 June, he surrendered himself to Victorian Police at Wallan,
walking into the police station without incident. Homicide squad detectives
transferred him to Melbourne where he was charged with murder and other offences
in an out of court hearing.
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43-year old solicitor Brendan Keilar
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25-year old Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard. Paul de Waard surfing at Manly Beach last week
and, right, the young tourist lies wounded in the CBD.
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Gunman_on_the_loose_in_Melbourne
Gunman on the loose in Melbourne
Monday, June 18, 2007Police in Melbourne, Australia are on the hunt for a gunman who killed a man and injured two others in the city's central business district this morning.
Officials warned all office workers to remain indoors, and train services to Flinders Street Station were temporarily on hold, as investigations were carried out on the intersection of Flinders Lane and William Street.
Malcom Bates, who witnessed the shootings at around 8:15 a.m., said the gunman grabbed a woman from inside a taxi. "The lady got away and he turned and shot three people basically point blank," Mr Bates said. "I was right across the road". He said that the incident took no longer than the "wink of an eye".
Paramedics struggled to revive the one victim for almost an hour before declaring him dead at the scene. The two injured people have been taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition.
Police believe the incident began at the Bar Code 24-hour bar in King Street, when a woman attempted to get into a taxi. She was apparently grabbed by the hair by the gunman who then shot her and two men who attempted to come to her aid.
Police have identified the gunman as Christopher Wayne Hudson, aged 29. They believe him to be a member of the Hells Angels bikie gang. Police have described Hudson as about 180 cm tall, with short brown hair and wearing a dark tracksuit top and dark denim jeans.
A building worker on a construction site on the corner of Queen and Flinders Streets has reportedly discovered a handgun. It is understood the gunman may have thrown the weapon into the site as he fled the scene.
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Aftermath
and trial
Hudson
was to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court, but was unable to make it
due to an injury to his forearm that required surgery. The magistrate ordered
that Hudson be remanded into custody. The formal charges were: one charge of
murder in relation to Brendan Keilar, two charges of attempted murder in
relation to Kara Douglas and Paul de Waard, one charge of intentionally causing
serious injury in relation to Autumn Daly-Holt and one charge of unlawful
imprisonment. He was later also charged with nine offences in relation to the
shooting incident involving Collingwood Magpies player Alan Didak.
In
May 2009, allegations came to light that Hudson had been tortured by members of
the Hell's Angels for bringing unwanted police attention to the group. The
claimant alleges a club tattoo was burned from his forearm with a blowtorch
before he surrendered to police. The story arose after police raided the
Angels' clubhouse in Sydney and took possession of a Harley Davidson motorcycle
apparently owned by Hudson. This story was denied by Victoria Police and was
further discredited when Hudson's stepmother sent a recent photograph, clearly
showing the club tattoo, to the ABC program Media Watch.
Paul
de Waard returned to the Netherlands to recover from his injuries. In October
2007, he revealed on a television interview that he was still undergoing
extensive rehabilitation. He also made an appearance in the Dutch television
show In de schaduw van het nieuws (In the shadow of the news) on
21 November 2009.
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Unflinching Hudson gets life in prison for
shooting
By Karen Kissane and Kate
Hagan - TheAge.com.au
September 23, 2008
HE IS not too bright and can't read or write well. He worries that
he is too thin - that's why he took the steroids that pumped him up mentally as
well as physically. And he's long been a loser; apart from the occasional
labouring gig, he has relied on his dad to support him the past few years.
- Life in prison, 35-year minimum
- Bikie culture, drug abuse 'only
explanation'
- Hudson 'of low intellect'
But Christopher Wayne Hudson, the city shooter, put on a good
front in the Supreme Court yesterday. He puffed out his chest and held his
handsome head high as Justice Paul Coghlan ordered him to stand to hear his
fate: life in prison, with a 35-year minimum. The 30-year-old Hudson did not
flinch.
Maybe it was partly about impressing the gang. Half-a-dozen Hells
Angels sat in the back row behind him. They stood to greet him when he entered
the court. He gave them a smile and a thumbs up, and one gave him a
fist-on-heart salute in return.
They were a big part of his problem, his psychiatrist had told the
judge. The bikie culture and the drugs he abused were, in the end, the only
explanations for the bloody attacks in the heart of Melbourne on June 18, 2007,
in which a drunken, meth-crazed Hudson left one man dead and three other people
seriously wounded.
A report by consultant psychiatrist Danny Sullivan had been
tendered at Hudson's plea hearing. Dr Sullivan found Hudson was of low
intellect but had no psychiatric disorder: "Although anabolic steroid
abuse and the lifestyle led by Mr Hudson suggests narcissistic and antisocial
features, it is more likely that he was seduced by the lifestyle offered by
joining motorcycle gangs, and that his peer group and lifestyle encouraged
self-centred and aggressive attitudes."
Hudson, whose spree included savagely kicking a dancer in the face
at a nightclub he had frequented, had a history of violence against women that
was echoed in his city attacks, in which he shot two men who had tried to help
a woman he was assaulting. In 2003, Hudson had beaten his then partner and
attacked a security guard who had tried to help her.
He had been taking anabolic steroids, which he knew made him
moody, for more than a month before the shootings because he was concerned that
people said he was looking "skinny". He had also been taking large
amounts of amphetamines and that night was drinking heavily, mostly beer and
Bacardi rum.
"He was, as a consequence, much more paranoid than
usual," Dr O'Sullivan said.
In front of the dock was Hudson's father, Terry, dressed as if for
a funeral, his face grim as the judge recounted again the tale of that morning.
It began when Hudson attacked Autumn Daly-Holt, a dancer at the
Spearmint Rhino club in King Street where he had spent the previous night. He
left her lying unconscious on the street and turned his anger on former
girlfriend Keara Douglas, forcing her at gunpoint to walk with him.
Solicitor and father-of-three Brendan Keilar, 43, was walking to
work when he and Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard, 26, saw Hudson dragging the
distraught Ms Douglas away from a taxi by her hair. The two men asked Hudson
what was going on.
Justice Coghlan said. "They did not even so much as touch
you. You took out your handgun and shot both of them. You also shot Ms Douglas.
They fell to the ground. You shot Mr Brendan Keilar once more while he was on
the ground. You executed him.
"You shot Mr Paul de Waard once more while he was on the
ground.Your gun was then empty. You and others ought be grateful for
that."
Mr Keilar died at the scene.
Most of the rest of Hudson's life will be spent in jail. His
victims feel they have life sentences too. Ms Douglas lost a kidney. Ms
Daly-Holt has been left with permanent nerve damage to her face. Mr de Waard can
no longer enjoy the surfing, swimming and snowboarding he once loved.
Justice Coghlan found Hudson to be remorseful, but discounted
witness accounts that he had tried to commit suicide after the shootings - the
gun was empty by that stage.
He was given a non-parole period only because he had pleaded
guilty to the charges of murder and attempted murder, Justice Coghlan said.
Hudson will be 65 when he is given his freedom.
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CBD shooter Christopher Wayne Hudson tortured
by Hells Angels bikies
By Paul Kent - News.com.au
May 7, 2009
THE killer behind
Melbourne's horrific CBD shooting was tortured by Hells Angels bikies before he
surrendered to justice, it can finally be revealed.
Christopher Wayne Hudson,
on the run from police after a drug-fuelled rampage, was chained up while he
was punished.
Senior members used a
blowtorch to remove a Hells Angels tattoo from his arm, the Herald Sun reports.
Speaking for the first
time, a Hells Angels insider said the ritual torture was punishment for
bringing shame on the club.
Hudson surrendered to
police with a heavily bandaged arm after two days on the run.
"Look at the bandage,
it goes right up to the elbow ... it's a burns bandage," the insider
said.
Hudson is serving 35 years
for killing lawyer Brendan Keilar and shooting Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard
in June, 2007.
On Tuesday, police raids
across Sydney netted a custom-built Harley-Davidson from the Angels' Sydney
clubhouse.
Police would not confirm
the identity of the bike's owner last night, but a bikie insider said it was
Hudson's.
The bike, painted in
two-tone camouflage grey with a distinctive Hells Angel Arizona insignia on its
side, was wheeled on to the back of a police truck.
For true outlaw bikers,
the loss of their motorbike is the greatest insult they can suffer.
The bike was being held
for safekeeping for Hudson by members who argued he should not be kicked out.
As his bike was taken away
on Tuesday, Hudson's final few days of freedom have come to light.
It can be revealed that
bitter infighting broke out within the club as members argued whether Hudson
should be kicked out or allowed to remain.
Hudson had defected from
rival bikie gang The Finks in 2006, which was when he had the Hells Angels
tattoo - of a death's head with Hells Angel around it - inked on the inside of
his arm.
A fully patched member, he
disintegrated into a haze of drugs and alcohol.
Hudson had spent the night
of June 17, 2007 drinking at the Spearmint Rhino and Bar Code along Melbourne's
notorious King St. He was high on drugs and affected by alcohol.
At 5.30am, Hudson called
his stripper girlfriend Kaera Douglas and asked her to come to get him.
He had viciously attacked
Ms Douglas's workmate, Autumn Daly-Holt. When Ms Douglas arrived about 7.30am,
he dragged her up the street by her hair.
As they reached the
intersection of William St and Flinders Lane, Mr Keilar weighed in to help Ms
Douglas, and Mr de Waard came to his aid.
After shooting Mr Keilar
dead and wounding Mr de Waard and Ms Douglas, Hudson fled.
He spent two days in a
Hells Angels safe house, coming down from his drug binge. All the while, club
leaders debated what should happen to him.
Some wanted him kicked
out; others, because he was considered staunch, wanted him to remain.
"Some didn't like the
problems he brought with him," a Hells Angels insider said.
"They thought, 'F---
him. He got into it himself.' And with all the trouble he caused us with The
Finks, they thought: 'Why didn't he do this then'?"
In 2006, a kickboxing promotion
on the Gold Coast exploded when bikies from The Finks and Hells Angels brawled,
ending the card. The brawl finished with Hudson being shot in the chin.
"They thought he
should have done what he did to The Finks, not to innocent people," the
insider said.
When no retribution
followed the brawl, certain hardcore Hells Angels were angered.
Also, days before the city
shooting, Hudson had shot at police after spending a night drinking with
Collingwood footballer Alan Didak.
The club did not want the police
attention Hudson's increasingly chaotic behaviour was attracting.
And nothing attracts
police attention like murder.
As arguments about
Hudson's future continued, police intelligence surfaced suggesting that two
Hells Angels were flying in from interstate to kill the wanted fugitive.
With the club split, some
senior Angels took the oxyacetylene torch to Hudson's tattoo.
When Hudson surrendered to
Wallan police, he was sporting a bandage over the burn, prompting widespread
rumours that he had tried to commit suicide.
The insider insists it was
a burns bandage.
But some Hells Angels
still believe Hudson tried to kill himself, saying they have seen what is left
of the damaged tattoo.
"A few blokes said
they saw it and that it has a lot of scarring and it's a bit messed up because
he tried to blade himself," the insider said.
"Chris wasn't that
sort of bloke, though. Not a lot know what really happened."
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