Permission to use the boat that crashed killing six people?
Crash skipper named SMH 22 July 08
At first attention focused on Matthew Reynolds, 31, who had taken the runabout out for the night.
While he has also refused to be interviewed by police, he recently
agreed to nominate who he says was driving the boat when it crashed.
The DPP's office confirmed that it had received a "partial" brief but
was still waiting for more evidence, believed to be the biomechanical
tests.
The DPP will assess the evidence before giving police advice on whether a prosecution is likely to succeed.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/crash-skipper-named/2008/07/21/1216492356987.html
Police want charges laid over boat tragedy
Investigators sent their brief of evidence on the horrific May 1 crash
between a runabout and a fishing trawler to the NSW DPP on Friday, The
Daily Telegraph has learned. __While police are remaining tight-tipped about what charges may eventuate,
it is known that both the master of the vessel, Matthew Reynolds, 31,
and cocktail barman Percy Small, 24, have been the focus of inquiries
over the crash.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24058360-421,00.html
Harbour crash probe nears completion
It is understood a charge of dangerous driving occasioning death is possible.
An overloaded runabout boat crashed into a fishing trawler in May, killing four women and two men.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/22/2310311.htm
Identity of Sydney harbour crashed runabout thief no mystery
Mathew Reynolds who was seen skippering a stolen
boat taken without the owner’s permission, that left a wharf at Balmain
in Sydney with 14 people and then crashed killing 6 people, has now told police he borrowed the runabout without permission before it collided with a fishing trawler on Sydney Harbour.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/identity-sydney-harbour-crashed-runabout-thief-no-mystery
Police "too busy" to question possible driver of boat in fatal harbour crash
Some said they could not understand the decision to pile into a small
boat built for eight people. "I don't know why they did it; I just wish
they hadn't done it," said another friend of the victims.
SMH May 7, 2008
The company that owns the runabout today denied a statement by Mr
Reynolds' lawyer that the 31-year-old had permission to use the boat.
"Sydney Ship Repair and Engineering Pty Ltd wishes to confirm its
earlier statement that the boat involved in last week's accident was
being used without authorisation or its knowledge,'' the statement read.
SMH May 8, 2008
THE lawyer for Matthew Reynolds, the man who skippered the runabout
involved in an accident that claimed six lives in Sydney Harbour last
week, maintains that the 31-year-old was in control of the boat even if
he was not steering at the time. ["I'm not suggesting he wasn't in
command of the vessel] [but] he wasn't driving at the time of the
collision," Greg Walsh said.
The company that owns the runabout yesterday
again denied Mr Reynolds had permission to use it or that he worked for
the company. "Sydney Ship Repair and Engineering Pty Ltd wishes to
confirm its earlier statement that the boat involved in last week's
accident was being used without authorisation or its knowledge.
Glaring deficiency
The DPP will assess the evidence before giving police advice on whether a prosecution is likely to succeed.
Re writing the facts SMH?
The company that owns the boat made
two statements in relation to a crime having been committed and
reported by the SMH. So why then do the NSW Police have difficulty with
a prosecution about stealing boats that then crash killing six people?
Since
when was stealing property no longer a crime? Stealing a motor vehicle
and overloading it which then killed six people. These would be very
serious indictable offences punishable by law in relation to most other
people.
The DPP will assess the evidence before giving police advice on whether a prosecution is likely to succeed?
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Re: Sydney Harbour Boat Crash Fraud
Stands to reason all the police had to do was convince the boat owner Sydney Ship Repair and Engineering
that a competent and licensed skipper was at the helm of the boat when
it crashed. Then the boat owner company would be more inclined to say
that the boat was just borrowed instead of stolen if that's what they
now say? If the Herald swolled that after being told several times that
the boat was stolen by them then so would the insurance company? That
leaves the publicans andMatthew Reynolds off the hook for the six dead. But I wonder if Percy Small wants to go along with that?
Re: Permission to use the boat that crashed killing six people?
One reason robberies are under-reported is that police do nothing when
they are reported. Recently an unoccupied house in my street was broken
into which left us and our neighbours exposed as it allowed access via
back yards to otherwise secure inner city dwellings. The Police did
nothing for two days. We eventually tracked down the owner and
convinced him he needed to come and repair the broken garage doors.
It's the same with car breakins which are common in our street. People
don't report them because it's a waste of time. If, however, we had
said there was cannabis growing in the breached garage, I bet the
response would have been instant and major. Police just want to grab
the 'low-hanging fruit' and don't seem to care about real neighbourhood
security.
Re: Permission to use the boat that crashed killing six people?
If you borrow a vehicle instead of stealing it thats okay for a party?
A party is not a joy ride? They were going to give the boat back?
Avoiding being charged for a crime is no crime? If their intentions
were not criminal then it's not a crime? Better to make a mistake and
own up to it? If you have money you can make no mistakes? Police can be
bought and sold? Police can be stolen? Corporate media decides who mad
a mistake or who committed a crime? Depends on the language they use?
What day is it? Who paid for the damaged boats? Who ran a red light?
Were they drunk or drug affected? How many people can you fit in a
small boat? How many people can take the helm without being known as
the skipper? It wasn't me? Someone else were driving at the time? Its
up to the dead people to decide who was responsible? Police have to get
biomechanical tests instead of interviewing the alleged offenders?
biomechanical tests are like lie detectors. People outside the boat
knew better? If the boat owner doesn't lay charges then the police
don't have to find out who was authorised to use the boat? The boat
owner should be charged and pay the damages including the liability of
the six dead? The boat owner should go to jail for allowing his boat to
kill six people?
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