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 The alleged killer Christopher Wayne Hudson was a wanted man before
Monday's triple shooting in Melbourne. Police said he was probably
responsible for a shooting at a truck factory in the city's north a week
ago.
Police said the Hells Angels bikie, 29, had an "extensive" criminal
history and remained "very dangerous", as his distraught parents pleaded
for him to give himself up peacefully.
Hudson's father, Terry, at a news conference on the Gold Coast,
revealed he had spoken to his son by phone an hour after the shooting.
"Dad, I love you," Hudson had told his father.
Terry Hudson pleaded yesterday: "Please, Chris, if you are watching
this, surrender peacefully to the nearest police station to avoid any
further conflict or injury, including yourself."
His voice breaking, Mr Hudson added: "Mate, we love you. Please give
in. Give up."
Victoria's Police Commissioner, Christine Nixon, described Hudson as
"out of control" after he shot dead Brendan Keilar, 43, a solicitor, and
wounded a Dutch backpacker, 25.
Both men, widely praised as good Samaritans, had tried to stop Hudson
attacking his girlfriend, Kaera Douglas, 24, a former
Sydney model, who was also shot. Earlier, it is alleged, he viciously
attacked her friend, Autumn Daly-Holt, outside a nightclub.
On her MySpace website, Ms Douglas paints herself as a party girl who
loves movies, going out, being in love and "anything fast". Her webpage
is emblazoned with Harley Davidson emblems and features dozens of snaps
of her and friends, some in raunchy poses. She was in a serious but
stable condition in Royal Melbourne Hospital last night.
Mr Keilar's widow, Alice, and his children, Charlie, 8, Phoebe, 6,
and Lucy, 4, spent yesterday at their East Hawthorn home. Neighbours
laid flowers at the fence. Mr Keilar's father, Harry, at Warrnambool,
said: "[Anger] doesn't come into it with me. It's the loss of our son
and the wife and children he's left behind. What happens to him [the
killer] at this stage doesn't worry me one bit."
Brendan Keilar had recently bought a beach house at Point Lonsdale. A
fortnight ago, the extended Keilar clan - including Brendan's five
siblings - spent a long weekend there. "We all just had a wonderful
weekend … something to remember," his mother, Moya, said. "The kids
brought their rabbit and guinea pigs. He was very excited."
The family of the Dutch tourist were on their way to Australia
yesterday and requested that his name not be made public.
By last night both cars linked to Hudson - a late model black
Mercedes and a NSW-registered black Honda CRV - had been found, the
former in the underground car park of an apartment block in Richmond. Ms
Nixon confirmed Hudson had been wanted after shots were fired about 5am
last Tuesday from a black Mercedes into the Scania truck company's
headquarters at Campbellfield, near the Hells Angels' clubhouse on
Melbourne's northern fringe.
Although Hudson was the probable culprit, Ms Nixon said there had
been little possibility of catching him before Monday. "This is a big
city, 3.5 million people. We're trying to find someone in it. We had
resources focused on him, but we didn't find him."
Ms Nixon defended a police decision not to release a photograph of
Hudson until late on Monday night, saying: "We might have had the wrong
person."
Hudson was shot in the jaw and back in March last year during a brawl
at a kickboxing tournament on the Gold Coast. A court heard it was
payback for his defection from the Finks bike gang to the Hells Angels.
September 2008
Both Ms Douglas, who was shot once and lost a kidney, and Mr De Waard, who
shot in the chest and abdomen, have recovered from their injuries.
Christopher Hudson was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Kaera is the daughter of Jim Douglas.
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