This elevated Finch’s claims to “an entirely different level”, Watt added. The journalist accepted Finch “would do whatever it took to survive”, but said Finch’s allegations about the murders of Barbara McCulkin and her daughters were corroborated by the subsequent conviction of Vincent O’Dempsey and Garry Dubois for those killings.

Watt said much of what Finch told him had come from Stuart, but “his description of his involvement on the night and self-incrimination is fairly powerful testimony”. He claimed he was pressured by his friend John Andrew Stuart, who was also convicted over the attack. In a recorded interview with Watt in England in October 1988, Finch placed himself at the scene, saying he put two drums of fuel, which were lit by a co-offender, in the club. Watt said it was “quite devastating, crushing quite frankly” that Finch told one story for 15 years, and then another. “It was in my mind an extraordinary betrayal not just of myself and my family and my friends, but all those good people who had made extraordinary sacrifices to support him … to establish his innocence,” he told the inquest. “He saw himself as a hard man and was happy for that image to be continued,” Watt told the Coroners Court in Brisbane.īut he said he was shocked when Finch admitted having been involved in the attack on the Whiskey Au Go Go. The journalist said the story could have had the headline “Jailhouse Dictator” because of the “onerous rules (Finch) imposed on fellow prisoners to maintain the good order of his yard”.

NBA Exec.Watt said they “had a close relationship” discussing a potential story about his time in the Boggo Road jail.

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