From: judy
Thursday 19 October
To: OVOP

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Dad has been moved to the Melbourne Custody Centre which has restricted visiting hours. The hours are 6pm-7pm Wednesday evenings and 9am - 4pm Saturday and Sundays. Apparently there are only 6 visiting cubicles and the way to get an "appointment" is to ring the centre after 9pm the evening before the visiting day then it's first in first serve. There are 67 people being held in this centre with visiting times being in half hour blocks. Needless to say I continuously rang them on the Tuesday evening to get an appointment but by the time I got through all the visits had been booked out. So we are unable to see dad until the weekend and then there is no guarantee that we will be able to get an appointment to see him then either. This seems like a very inefficient process, especially as dad has been conducting his own cases with my help and I am now unable to see him to see what he wants done. He must be extremely frustrated by it all. We are still not sure if he has been allowed to have his legal documents and glasses.

Mum and l went down to see dad's solicitor yesterday … We spoke at length about the bail application … He seems to think that the charge of threatening an officer of the supreme court is the charge that these people will contest the most, stating that dad is a dangerous person and will not abide by the conditions set by a bail application. This verbal threat was, apparently, made over the telephone. The sheriff rang dad and he had two of his officers present with him at the time and the speaker phone turned on so that these officers could hear what dad said. I am not quite sure of the contents of this conversation as yet but dad said the sheriff gloated about coming up to his place and taking possession of it. …
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My brother has been told by an extremely reliable source that his phone is being monitored.
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I asked Keith why the SOG were brought into all of this as the sheriff was only acting on a warrant to recover a taxing document from the courts for an amount of about $16000.00 owing in court costs. Apparently in the search warrant that the police stated that dad had in his possession a machine gun so the magistrate approved the search warrant. This warrant was dated the 9-10-2000 at about 11.30am. Hence the reports in the newspaper about the machine gun being found on the property. They had to justify their presence there! … the plot thickens …
These people were out to get my father and they tried every trick in the book to get him off there and away from the property. The state of Victoria now have possession of the property and have positioned 4 full time security guards there to protect the property. At night the outside of the house is all lit up by huge flood lights. A friend of the family went down there looking for dad, not knowing what had happened and was turned away by these guards. When he inquired as to how long they would be there, the guards replied until the property is sold. This is history repeating itself all over again.