There are many other online links from various news agencies today about this human remains find.
As I lived in the town for 20 years, I know the place fairly well, and where these remains were found in a paddock off Grange road - is no where near the farmhouse the Felton family rented, from a local farmer Mr Lyndon Crouch out East Nannup Road!
Facts that need to be considered.
1. Why did Felton move hisfamily to Nannup in 2004 from Denmark?
2. How did Felton manage to live under an asumed alias of one of his university collegues in England from 20 years ago?
3. I heard from a local, (remember after 20 years living there I know most of them) that Felton was stopped by the local copper at the time one night for a random breath test and provided a valid W.A. Drivers license bearing his photo - but using his alias Kadwell name. How does one get "100 points" for a false identity like that? Isn't the system designed to stop people doing that? You require at the least a long form birth certificate, or Valid Passport with photo.
(I know the answer to this and will give more detail in a moment).
4. We know from various reports online etc That Felton and family went to England in both yrs 2000 and 2002 while living in Nannup and that he met a canadian lady "and tried to get in her pants" as part of his "Si" persona according to the article concerned. Also theres some suggestion that he also went to Canada perhaops to liaise with his online book publisher for the epic "Servers Of The Divine Plan". It appears to me that WA / Australian and Interpol / Scotland Yard, should be investigating customs / immigration records to find out what documents the whole family used to travel on those occasions and what names those documents were in.
5. Some of the articles suggest that Kadwell / Felton was in the habit of forging documents which makes tracking all their movements that much harder to do.
6. Heres HOW someone (Usually crooks but also occasionally intelligence assetts of foreign intelligence services ie spys) normally gets a false ID for clandestine work in foreign countrys.
A) They firstly are usually recruited at Universitys as vulnerable intelligent students by foreign intelligence agencies.
B) Feltons travel back to England twice in Yrs 2000 and 2002 along with his recruitement in Cambridge University London England suggests that he may well have worked for GCHQ (HRH QE2's Intelligence service Emm Eye 5 or 6, most likely 6) as they are variously called.
C) In providing a false ID - often the trade craft training of such organizations operatives requires them to successfully obtain someone elses ID as an exercise - which would explain Felton using one of his Uni student colleagues ID's - he likely passed that test by stealing his fellow students ID successfully - and having done it once may have hung onto the paperwork in case it was ever needed later. Evidence suggests that it was used for his "Nannup assignment" whatever that may have been (More on that score soon too).
D) "Normally" such intel assets are taught when looking for an ID to assume, to scour cemeteries looking for something specific - a "stillborn child" in approx the same year the agent/asset was born, so that they will appear to be the right age. Little known fact - stillborn children are issued both a birth certificate and death certificate on the same day. Heres the reason such crooks and agents/assets pick a stillborn - the records of birth and death are kept on separate registers! Unless you actually LOOK physically on the two separate registers - you normally would not know from a long form certificate of birth - that the child was deceased on the same day. The mistake that MOST people make when issuing documents - and they are supplied with a long form birth certificate as proof of identity - is that they NEVER look for a death certificate issued in the same name (at any date subsequent to the birth!). The REASON no one checks is because the person claiming to be the person in the birth certificate is obviously alive - they just handed you the certificate, and applied for some other document! (a bank account or drivers license for example). Who in their right mind thinks to check for a death certificate, if a live person just handed you a long form birth certificate?. All thats needed is a elderly person with ID papers purporting to be the father presents at a clerk of courts with his identity papers and pays for a copy of the original long form birth certificate using the name and dates off the grave stone for the birth details of the deceased child. This is how Agents etc get into and out of country's undetected. They rely upon the fact no one checks proof of identity papers for a death certificate on the off chance that the person purporting to be someone actually isnt! It's something that most people never think of unless specifically trained to do so - and because all country's have such intel assets - they deliberately don't train their customs and immigration people to think that way because they don't ant the embarrassment of their own people returning home on a false ID to be caught at the air port - the downside being that foreign intelligence seets can and do enter ours and other country's this way REGULARLY.
There is public record evidence of the nation of Israel using False Australian passports for assassinations in Middle eastern countrys something that former prime minister KRudd expelled a Israeli ambassador for just before the Mossad had him removed from his position by JuLiar Gillard (but I digress)
In short - there's MUCH evidence to suggest that Kadwell / Felton was anything BUT a religious cult leader.
Yeah I know Adrian V L will crack the craps for me revealing all this but screw him - the facts are what they are.
6 (i) So in Summary - there's a LOT of evidence like Felton's false photo ID West Aussie drivers license and trips to England (2) and possibly one to Canada (1) that he traveled regularly on false passports and false drivers licenses and bank accounts etc etc - something that an intelligence asset could easily do (or a really clever crook).
7. Feltons manifesto - his book servers of the divine plan!. Anyone who takes the trouble - could get hold of a copy of one Branch Davidian David Koresh' of WACO Texas religious manifesto. If you do and you also read "Si" Felton / Kadwells "Servers Of The Divine Plan", you will find out that the latter is a thinly veiled plagiarized copy of Koresh's manifesto. So the question then begs - why would Felton / Kadwell - publish a plagiarized copy of Koreshes work as his own?
The "most likely answer" is this. His handlers /Agency (Emm Eye 6) have to be able to funnel funds to him to be able to live in Nannup without alerting any authorities to his presence in our country. What would Aye See Ohh say if they found out a fellow member of the commonwealth in HRH QE2 - had one of her intelligence service agents domiciled in Australia acting against the best interests of an Australian citizen for their own nefarious purposes?
Sales on an online book - is a way to funnel funds direct into a bank account in small chunks below the $10,000 foreign trasactions reporting amount, sufficient for him and his sidekick Popic, and his common law wife and child Chantell and Leela to reside in the town, where traditionally there's a low employment area and without that income he would be obvious by having no visible means of support - most likely Chantelles employment in the fish and chip shop was a part of the cover to legitimize their presence in the town.
8. Feltons Forum! What purpose a forum for a spy? Well most intell agencies (including Australia's Aye See Ohh) all share info obtained by US and English intel agencies thru the England based GCHQ run project Echelon which intercepts in real time all emails etc sent by electronic means via satellites around the world. This facility is programmed to search all such traffic for key words - like Bomb Explosive etc (and many others) in order to intercept intelligence and it is all searched and shared widely among the western allies. Not so Forums posts - they exist on the internet...is cyber space. The messaging system on forums has been a tool used for some years by intelligence agencies and their assets. Sometimes one time pad type codes are used to encrypt the info in a seemingly innocuous forum message between members - when really whats happening is the asset is relaying intel to his handlers abroad, and receiving further instructions from his handler with regard to his assignment.
We do know that his book was published online by a Canadian publisher - a fellow member state of the Commonwealth - with whom England and Emm Eye 6 specifically would share intelligence.
It's quite unlikely any Australian Aye See Ohh operatives would pick up such urbane traffic as religious forum PM's. A technique the Russian's are particularly adept at, is using altered pixellated photos posted online at photo servers and linked into such religious forums posts. The pixellation data is sufficient to allow for a LOT of alteration of the pixels without altering the physical appearance of how a photo renders on a computer screen after its been posted to the internet. Essentially an altered photo is sent by email - that Echelon may or may not pick up. Its is however only half the message it is the one time pad encryption code. The second altered pixelated photo linked onto the forum - is the actual message and the altered pixels code from the one time pad emailed copy allows the altered second version photo to be decrypted to reveal a message.
And so you see, foreign intel assets commonly use websites that sell downloads of books as a cash flow mechanism for paying their agents in the field, as well as the forum attached to such websites as the means by which encrypted messages are passed between agent and handler in plain sight! Hiding something in plain sight is always the most effective way to conceil something.
This is what Felton / Kadwell - spent all his time doing - he barely ever saw daylight - he spent all his time inhis room at hisdesk on his computer... well almst all his time - he had another "hobby" as well - his task / assignment.
9. What (who) was Felton / Kadwells "assignment" in sleepy little old Nannup, pop'n 500-1000, a 150 year old timber town? What on earth could HRH QE2 & her Emm Eye 6 operatives want so badly that was located in little old Nannup?
Well ain't that the Bob and Dolly Dyer $64,000 question.
And here's the Answer - that up to now no one but me knows about!
Answer = ME! (And the info that I hold / held that COULD have brought down Blair's UK Government at the time had it ever gone public)!.
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"THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC",
Part 28
by Sherman H. Skolnick 3/21/03
The Bush/Blair Bribery Affair
What turned out to be a messy situation, all started, at least in part, to unravel on January 16, 2003. Two events were on that day, one later widely reported, the other seldom mentioned. The space shuttle "Columbia" took off on that day, later crashing, February 1, 2003. It is dealt with elsewhere in this series. On the same day in January, what some prefer to call jointly the American CIA/Bush Crime Family, conducted a "black bag" job. They did a break-in and entry into the residence of Alan Greenspan, Commissar of the Federal Reserve, America's highly secretive PRIVATE central bank.
What all were they looking for? Among other things, they sought to retrieve, and keep from ever surfacing, a series of Federal Reserve wire transfer records, showing certain transactions done under the secret authorization code of Greenspan.
The dealings were several months previous. They show that George Herbert Walker Bush used the Carlyle Group to forward some sixteen Billion Dollars to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Daddy Bush has been a senior paid consultant with Carlyle to, among others, the Bin Laden Group, the Saudi Family dominating several industries in Saudi and the Middle East, including construction. They are NOT actually on the outs with family member Osama, who they finance, also with members of the Saudi Royal Family, through a major bank in Saudi, and banks and financial entities worldwide, including the Dutch money laundry, Algemene Bank Nederland, now ABN-AMRO.
Here is the circuitous route the funds took
[1] The existence of the transactions, by themselves, sufficiently prove the prior planning jointly of White House occupant and resident George W. Bush financially bending Tony Blair. The upshot of it all, was to have Blair join with Dubya (said quickly Texas style) to seize eventually the Iraqi oilfields, for two purposes.
First, to use the oil treasure as collateral to underwrite the huge U.S. deficit, soon to be out-of-control. Thus laying the way for Dubya to push a huge tax cut for the one or two percent of Americans, the wealthiest in the U.S.
Second, to seek to prop up the Bank of England caught up on the wrong side of speculations in the Kuwaiti Dinar, a currency pegged to the so-called "U.S. Dollar", actually hot-air Federal Reserve Notes. And further, to seek to bail out the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and LIFFE, the International Financial Futures and Options Exchange in London.
To understand the route of the bribe to Blair and the route, some background is necessary. [2] Starting in the late 1980s and up to 1991, the highly mysterious espionage money laundry, BCCI, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, was later implicated in a scheme to bribe more than 25 per cent of both houses of Congress. More than 28 U.S. Senators and more than 108 Congressmen.
The purpose of the scheme was to corruptly influence, by bribes or phantom transactions used as blackmail, to members of Congress who were chosen to help promote the interests of BCCI in opening numerous branches in the U.S. The lawmakers were invited to give speeches in Chicago, seldom reported in the press. While in the Windy City, they were paid their "honorarium" (lecture fees) and told they were getting as a bonus, an account with the exchanges there, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Later, some congressmen were told their Chicago accounts had a loss, but through straddles (a technical device using losses on one side of the fence, and gains on the other), they had a huge gain in London. Some Congressmen directly or through trusted aides picked up the "bonus" in London while secretly videotaped. Other Congressmen did not do so, but through phantom records, were shown, nevertheless to have "picked up" the pay-offs, in other words, blackmail. LIFFE was instrumental in all this. Why? Because they operate electronically only, and retain no paper records. Hence, the difficulty for regulatory authoririties and tax collectors to sniff out. Upon the apparent downfall of BCCI in 1991 (they continue under the name of a alter ego and successor), the Bank of England, supervising the smash up, for thirty days ONLY had the bribery list of Congress as a public record. As we told in a prior website story, a major news group refused to make public the story, and so it ended up with us. My exclusive details appeared in October, 1991, in the populist publication Spotlight, years later made defunct through a dirty court trick.
[3] Instrumental in the Bush/Blair Affair was Carlyle Group, having on its Board of Directors a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The funds for Blair went through the Chicago markets which have been heavily on the wrong side of Kuwaiti Dinar gambling, called derivatives, a sort of book-keeping hocus-pocus. They, together with the Bank of England, are leaning over the edge of the cliff in TRILLIONS of Dollars, enough to panic currency markets if completely divulged. Why was the Kuwaiti Dinar selected as part of the route to Blair? Because the currency, pegged to the Dollar, is considered more independent. In technical data, that means it has almost no limit features up or down, the "sky is the limit" betting.
The 16 Billion Dollars, in Kuwaiti Dinars, was to benefit Tony Blair through, among other places, accounts for him, in financial entities in the United Arab Emirates, a favorite money laundry site.
[4] What happened with the incriminating records in Greenspan's residence on January 16, 2003? Well, the "black bag" team did not get them. Why? His wife, Andrea Mitchell, senior Washington corrrespondent for NBC, had previous to that date moved the records to another location. The records are now in the possession of certain more independent-minded U.S. free lance journalists. A preliminary story about this, with just a few details, appeared exclusively in Canada, on a popular website linked to a Toronto radio program, Mojo Radio, "The Cloak and Dagger" Program, described as a "Talk Show for Spies". A few hours after they posted the preliminary details, their website was smashed by the "shadow government".
www.cloakanddagger.ca (ca stands for a website in Canada). In a conference call, a leading website technician stated to us he had a terrible time getting their website back operating, and that he does not know of another event as troubling as the wreckage of the Cloak and Dagger website, where show host Lenny Bloom posts items on their news forum together with advance listings of upcoming guests. I participated in putting the preliminary story together for Cloak and Dagger.
[5] The Russians with the help of Commissar Putin, formerly of the Soviet Secret Police, the KGB, have details of a phone conversation recently between Bush and Blair, about the preliminary story. Blair told Bush, "You have to take down those websites who have the documents". Bush responded, "We have a constitution", a statement that Bush could make without really believing the same. "Nevermind all that, take down those websites! If they post the first of the fourteen wire transfer records, you may not find me still on Downing Street anymore."
The inside joke is that an Israeli firm, reportedly fronting for Israeli intelligence and somehow beholden to Moscow, got the U.S. contract to rewire the communications system of the White House, the FBI, and the American CIA. The firm apparently, through satellites, is able to clandestinely send, in real-time, the content of supposedly secure, secret communications of U.S. top officials.
[6] And what is the possible fall-out from the full disclosure of the Bush to Blair bribery? The possible wreckage of the Chicago markets together with LIFFE, for openers. And a successful attack on the British Pound Sterling because of disclosures that the Bank of England, having gambled away their assets on Kuwaiti Dinar Derivatives, along with those exchanges, is insolvent and cannot any longer support the Pound in world currency markets.
Further, Blair would be open to criminal bribery prosecution together with charges against Daddy Bush and Dubya, of treason, international bribery, racketeering, and sundry other federal criminal offenses.
Please note that starting three years ago, on our website, www.skolnicksreport.com, we posted a series "Greenspan Aids and Bribes Bush". Shown there are the 25 worldwide secret money laundry accounts of the Bush Crime Family, the proceeds of hundreds of billions of extortion loot, joint business deals with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. Also, shown is the Bush Crime Family JOINT ACCOUNT with the Queen of England, at her PRIVATE bank, Coutts Bank London. In December 19, 2001, the London Financial Times reported that the Queen of England sent her top bank executive, Andrew Fisher, to be a top official of Carlyle Group. Bush/British Monarch account shows a transaction of ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. The secret Federal Reserve wire transfer records, showing the secret authorization code of Alan Greenspan, are part of our website series.
So, will the latest secret Federal Reserve wire transfer records be posted? Wait and see.
[7] Furthermore, the Bush/Blair documents show that Tony Blair privately greatly profitted from arranging shipments to North Korea to enhance their nuclear capability. In that regard, he privately benefitted, as we mentioned in a previous part of this series, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, likewise implicated in privately profitting from shipments of nuclear items to North Korea. As to both Blair and Hillary, the shipments were reportedly made through Royal Jordanian Airlines. [As to Hillary and North Korea, we showed that document about a year ago on our Chicago public access Cable TV Program, "Broadsides"].
So, will the latest documents be posted? More coming. Stay tuned.
The short answer is this.
Those documents were indeed posted online.
And in 2003 I believe, I downloaded and saved copies of those documents (which I still have to this day).
$100 Billion seemed like a lot of $ back in those days - but against the $15 odd trillion that the USA is in the hole and probably a similar amount for the Euro today, some 9 years, later they seem fairly insignificant!.
Non the less they are fairly incriminating in that they bear the handwriotten advice from the Auditor who found them to then Secrety of State James A Baker the 3rd, indicating that they were illegal transfers, and a handwritten reply from Baker to "leave it with him to sort out" or words to that effect.
I made a point of uploading those very same 40 odd pages of incriminating documents to online servers under aliases amd then posted at many web forums (Like Above Top Secret etc) links for others to dowload their own copies and save them soince the combined inteligence agencies of the USA and England were doing their damndest to have then expunged.
And why do that?
Well because the guy Sherman Skolnik who originally posted them online died not long after, and unless I am mistaken the original source he posted at his website then vanished from the net.
And so you see - I believe I KNOW that Kadwell / Felton - was a spy for 100% certain. And he was sent to Nannup with his assistant Popic and common law wife Michelle McDougall and daughter Leela Mc Dougal.
I still believe 100% that this family were exfiltrated OUT of Australia - in 2007 because in 2006 as a rersult of the deliberate knobblingof my business by Felton and Popic - theruvariousnefarious methods (stealing my mail, tapping my phones and trying repeatedly to hack my computer etc) we just grew tired of not being able to survivie fiscally when our Bankwest R&I Rural Bank of Western Australia with whom we had done business as a family for more than 30 years were suddently BOUGHT out by The Bank of Scotland, and we found our bank accounts frozen with many thousands of dollars inthe needed formy fathers funeral etc.
This guy was relentless, and I'mNOT going to list everything he did tyo try and break us as a family but suffice to say it was plenty.
My belief is that - because he failed to obtain the said 40 pages of documents, and because I sold up everything, my farm and business on a walk in walk out basis...and left the town in 2006 - that his handlers back at GCHQ Emm Eye 6 Exfiltrated him & the other 3 out of the country in mid 2007.
Worse I still believe that they all died in the Tam Airways crash 3 datys after they left for Brazil. Its my sincere beliefe that the plane was likely sabotaged deliberately - and their untimely deaths were just house cleaning by the see eye eh and Emm eye six on behalf of HRH QE2 & The Bush Crime Cabal in USA.
Thats my belief at this stage.
I did provide WAPOL WA Major and serious crime squad detectives in Perth WA with copies of the 40 pages of incriminating documents back in October 2011 during HRH QE2 visit to Wa for the CHOGM meeting. I also alterted Aye See Ohhs Perth Office, of my suspicions with regard to Feltons activities in Australia as an intelligence assett of a foreign nation.
I cannot do much more than that!
The sad thing is the authorities here COULD probably put 2 and 3 together if they really wanted too... but the question then is - do they care about the activities of supposedly friendly allies intel agencies within Australia?
So you'd think that was the end of it eh?
Not bye a long shot..
So at end of @006 we move to the Canals of Mandurah and I put my new Charter fishing boat into the water and tie it up at the dock out front of our house. That's to be our new business since emm eyey 6 wont for some reason allow up to run a business to survive despite our abiliyty to do so quite well for 20 years prior to all this!
Anyway all seemd well enough - until a few weeks later when my edldest son hears someone inthe middle of the night (early morning hours) messing about n our boat outside. He ran out and chased them away in their little row boat thing, and once part was down the canal they fired up a small outboard and motored away to a house one canal over from ours where they shut down. He woke me and I was able to run up the street and see the 3 guys involved pull up at their abode.
At the time I put it down to maybe some locals curious bout the new boat in their area or maybe they want4ed to steal some equipment or something.
But at least I KNEW where they were domicled and could keep a bit of an eye out for them in case they came back.
Heres what happened that same year only weeks later to those 3 guys...
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The Kaz II, dubbed "the ghost yacht", is a 9.8-metre catamaran[1] which was found drifting 88 nmi (163 km) off of the northern coast of Australia on 18 April 2007. The fate of her three-man crew remains unknown, and the circumstances in which they disappeared are mysterious and have been compared to that of the Mary Celeste
According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the Kaz II departed from Airlie Beach on 15 April 2007, and was heading for Townsville on the first leg of a journey that was to take it around Northern Australia to Western Australia.[3]
The first indication that there was a problem came on 18 April, when it was spotted by a helicopter, which reported that the boat was drifting in the vicinity of the Great Barrier Reef, and that its crew were potentially in distress.[2][3] On 20 April, maritime authorities caught up with the boat and boarded it. They found the three-man crew missing in circumstances which they described as being "strange."[2][3]
"What they found was a bit strange in that everything was normal; there was just no sign of the crew." -- Jon Hall, Queensland's Emergency Management office.[2]
In a statement delivered on the day of the boarding, officials with the Queensland Emergency Management Office revealed that the yacht was in serviceable condition and was laid out as if the crew were still on board. Food and flatware were set out on the table, a laptop computer was set up and turned on, and the engine was still running. Officials also confirmed that the boat's emergency systems, including its radio and GPS were fully functional, and that it still had its full complement of life jackets.[2][3] According to news sources, there was even a small boat still hoisted on the back of the boat and the anchor was up.[6] The only signs, other than the disappearance of the crew, that were out of the ordinary, were damage to one of the boat's sails and that there was no life raft on board (it is unknown whether there ever was one aboard).[2][3]
[edit] Forensic examination
On Friday, 20 April, the Kaz II was towed into the Townsville port for forensic examination[4] On 21 April Police Sergeant Bardell and Sergeant Molloy searched the ship for signs of foul play or third-party involvement; no evidence for this was found. They found the cabin to be neat and tidy apart from some magazines, a piece of newspaper, and a wine cask which were lying on the floor. It was later determined that these items ended up on the floor while the ship was being towed to shore. In the sink were a few butter knives and, on a bench in the galley, a plastic sheath of fishing knives was found. They did not appear to be used recently. Under Batten's bed, in a sealed container, the investigators found a firearm and some ammunition, none of which was apparently missing. In a drawer they found an additional single bullet of the same caliber.[7]
After analyzing data about the Kaz II's course from the ship's GPS system, police say that on the morning of her departure from Airlie Beach the ship was steered in northeast direction, into an area where squalls and rough seas were building. On that same day, late in the afternoon, the GPS data shows her adrift.[8]
The investigators also recovered a video recording that showed footage taken by the crew during their trip. It revealed some clues as to the men's last day. The last footage, filmed by James Tunstead on 15 April at 10:05 A.M. local time, shortly before the men disappeared, showed, among other things:[7]
Batten was at the helm
Peter Tunstead is sitting on the aft stairway of the boat; he is fishing
A long white rope can be seen trailing behind the boat
The engine is not running
Fenders can be seen hanging from safety rails on both sides of the boat
The camera is panned 360 degrees and shows islands and surroundings; this helped investigators pinpoint the exact location of the ship
The sea is choppy and none of the men is wearing a life jacket
Tunstead's shirt and glasses are not in the place where they were later found
[edit] Search
Search and rescue efforts began on Wednesday, 18 April, and Australian search and rescue AusSAR sent a Navy aircraft to search in the vicinity of the vessel in an effort to locate the missing men. At the same time Bowen Voluntary Marine Rescue launched a coastal and island search. At night an aircraft with infrared capability was used to search the reefs and cays. The next day a full scale search-and-rescue effort was launched involving Volunteer Rescue Units from several towns as well as the Townville's coast guard, two rescue helicopters, nine airplanes, and two commercial vessels. Data from Kaz II's GPS system was also retrieved and analyzed in order to help narrow the search area. Dr. Paul Luckin, a survival-time expert, was consulted. He concluded that it was unlikely that the men were still alive if they were still in the water as they had probably gone overboard three to four days earlier. The teams still had hope that the men could have reached land and continued searching until 4:00 P.M. on 21 April, when the air and sea search for the three crew members was called off.[4][7] Another coastline search was launched on Monday 23 April after some new information had come in but the search proved fruitless and was called off on 25 April.
[edit] Official investigation
On 4 August 2008, an inquest into the men's disappearance began in the Townsville Coroner's Court.[9] The inquest was led by Queensland state coroner Michael Barnes and focused on whether the men were dead, the circumstances surrounding their disappearance, and if the search for the missing men was adequate. In total 27 witnesses were called to testify. Some of them had seen the ship on its fateful voyage and helped authorities to reconstruct the chain of events. (See the official report under External links for details on these witnesses) [7][10]
[edit] Hearings
On one of the hearings, Jennifer Batten testified that her husband Derek Batten was an experienced and careful yachtsman, had been around boats for 25 years, and that he was acutely aware of the need for safety. He had earned his recreational skipper's ticket and a qualification in marine radio. Every summer they travelled together to Rottnest Island on various motorboats. But the Kaz II was their first sailboat. After they bought it, the couple took a six-week sailing course and then sailed the Kaz II around the Whitsundays twice. Apart from a minor problem with a propeller the trips were without problems.[11][12]
Mrs. Batten also stated that the original plan was to sail the Kaz II to Fremantle as a couple but that Mr. Batten was worried that just two people aboard might not be safe. He decided to take his neighbours, brothers Peter and Jim Tunstead, with him instead. The trip was planned over several months and discussed daily as they plotted routes with the help of a computer. "They allowed themselves six to eight weeks to get back to Fremantle, but because Des and Peter were retired, it didn't really matter how long they took … They didn't want to sail at night for safety [reasons]," Mrs. Batten said,[12] and they planned to stay reasonably close to the shore.[11] Although her husband was taking medications for high cholesterol, mild diabetes, and had suffered a heart attack at age 50, she believed that he was well enough and fit for the journey.[12]
Also heard was Graeme Douglas, who was the previous owner of the Kaz II, and who had sold the boat to Batten. He stated the boat was in good condition when it was sold and that he had met the men on the night before they set sail. He also helped the men plan part of their route and was surprised to see that, according to the police, the men had deviated from their planned route that was programmed in their GPS system.[13]
Gavin Howland, the skipper of a commercial fishing vessel the Jillian, testified that on 16 April 2007, while fishing on a reef off Bowen, he and his crew saw a white yacht with a torn sail. It was drifting sideways between the reefs through a narrow passage, at up to 3 kn (5.6 km/h), in north-northeastern direction along with the current. He came within 50 metres of the boat but was unable to spot anyone on board. This was two days before the coast guard spotted the Kaz II adrift off the coast of Townsville and the day after authorities believe the men went missing. Howland found it odd that a sailboat was in an area noted for its shallow water and rocks. He did not attempt to contact the boat or the authorities. Howland told the inquest that it did not occur to him that the crew of the yacht might be in distress and went on to say: "it did seem a bit strange to me but I just have this rule that no one goes near another vessel,"[14][15]
Sergeant Paul Molloy, one of the three forensic police officers who examined the Kaz II after she was towed back to shore in April 2007, told the inquest that he did not believe the men had met with foul play. He spent several hours combing the ship for signs of a struggle but found no evidence that anyone beside the three-man crew of the vessel had been inside. "We came to the conclusion the boat itself was not a crime scene," he told the inquest. After questions by Peter Tunstead's widow Frances as to why the police did not check for fingerprints, Sgt. Molloy said his years of experience told him it was not necessary. "We were there for a long time; we pulled the boat apart and found nothing untoward. . . . If there was any indication [of foul play] we would have taken every measure we could to examine that boat."[7][14]
Detective Sergeant Graham Patch said that the police found a video recorder inside the boat. On it was footage taken by the three crewmembers on the morning they went missing. As the video was played in the courtroom Patch explained that land masses on the video helped officials narrow the search area for the missing crewmen.[7][16]
[edit] Conclusions
State coroner Barnes admits in his official report that he "cannot be so definitive about the circumstances under which the deaths occurred." [7] However, based on the eyewitness accounts, the video found on board, and the state of the yacht in which it was found, the report proposes the following scenario:
"On Sunday, 15 April 2007, at 10:05 A.M., the Kaz II was sailing in the vicinity of George Point. Up to that moment everything was going as planned but, in the following hour, their situation changed dramatically. The men hauled in the white rope that was trailing behind the boat and bundled it up on the foredeck, possibly to dry, next to the locker it was normally kept in. For unknown reasons, James Tunstead then took off his T-shirt and glasses and placed them on the backseat. The report says that since the men's fishing lure was found entangled in the ship's port side rudder, an obvious explanation would be that one of them tried to free the lure and fell overboard while doing so. Standing on the boat's 'sugar scoop' platform (a platform at the back of the ship close to the waterline) while the boat is moving is perilous and falling in the water is easy, but getting back aboard almost impossible. One of the other men then came to the rescue of his friend, while Batten, still on board, started the motor and realized he had to drop the sails before he could go back for his friends.
As he left the helm to drop the sails, a deviation of the ship's course or wind direction could have easily caused a jibe, swinging the boom across the deck and knocking Batten overboard. This could even have happened before Batten was able to untie and throw out the life ring to his friends. A blue coffee mug found near the life ring may support this. Since the boat was travelling before wind and at a speed of 15 kn (28 km/h), it would be out of reach of the men within seconds. The report states: "From that point, the end would have been swift. None of them was a good swimmer, the seas were choppy; the men would have quickly become exhausted and sunk beneath the waves."[7]
The report rules out foul play and staged disappearance.
[edit] Other explanations
Interior of the Kaz II showing laundry hung up to dry
Several alternative explanations have been put forward for the crew's disappearance.
According to authorities in Townsville, the weather had been windy and the sea had been rough between the time that the Kaz II departed and was found drifting.[2] This led authorities to speculate that the crew may have experienced some form of sudden difficulty during rough weather and gone overboard. However, one issue with this theory is that contents of the cabin, including a table, did not seem to have been disrupted in any way.[2][4] Relatives of the missing men say that the boat's condition make this unlikely and point to discrepancies such as the fact that the men's fishing lines and laundry were set out, and that their life jackets were still stowed, which indicated that they weren't experiencing rough weather at the time of their disappearance.[17]
Also noted was the fact that the Kaz II was found with its fenders out, leading to speculation that the Kaz II may have docked with another as-yet-unknown vessel to which the crew might have willingly, or unwillingly, transferred to.[17]
"'The fenders were out on their yacht, and the only reason you ever put them out is when another boat comes aside or if you come to rest against a wharf." -- Hope Himing, niece of boat owner Derek Batten.
In answer to speculation, Townsville police stated that small craft commonly leave their fenders out at all times, making it impossible to draw any definitive conclusions about this feature.[4][17]
Derek Batten was said to have bought the Kaz II a year before and sailed it a couple of times since then. The Tunsteads were not nautical novices either, since they sailed together from the time they were 18 years old, and even worked in the radio rooms of the Volunteer Sea Rescue.[6] The last known contact of the family members with any of the crew was made one-and-a-half hours after it left port, when one crew member was contacted by his wife.[7]
Volunteer radio operator Ivan Ormes recorded that the Kaz II radioed in at 6:45 P.M. on 15 April, the evening of their departure, giving its position as George Point. This is the last known contact with the Kaz II. Ms. Grey says that it should have taken them only 2½ hours to go to George Point and that it is unclear what took them so long to arrive there. One explanation is that they were just fishing the whole day. But another explanation is that they had problems with their GPS, since they already tried to set off on 14 April, but were forced to return because of the non-functional GPS. That incident was because of a user error and it was easily fixed, so the Kaz II set off early the next day.[6]
Other hypotheses include that the boat became stuck on a sandbar near George Point, where the boat's last radio message was made. When the men jumped overboard to push it free, a gust of wind blew and the boat drifted away, leaving them stranded. This would explain why towels were left out on the deck.[6]
Another hypothesis is that one crew member may have been washed over by a freak wave and that the others were lost trying to rescue him.[18]
Yes - 3 guys who lived around the corner from me on an adjacent canal - who tried to enter my locked boatfor unknown purposes only weeks beforehand - dissapeared without a trace....
JUST Like Felton Kadwell and his family did!
Gee - now that 2 groups of people who seemed to be associated with me who just "vanished" without trace.
Could it be that these foreign inteligence agencies were just "cleaning house" again?
Coroner found them to be dead without bodies recovered - very convenienbt indeed.
But two mysteriously vanished groups of people doesn't a conspiracy make does it!
So what about if a third such occurrence also rerlated to people involbved in all this activity against me and my family ALSO occurred!
Would that ALSO be just a conicidence?
Maybe - you read on and decide for yourself.
Remember I mentioned strange goings on with our bank fo 30+ years after they mysteriously got bought out by the Bank Of Scotland...
Well my bank managers name - the one who ordered our accounts frozen with over $6000 cash in them at the time of My fathers funeral etc... his name was Brian Guest - a keen fisherman like myself who posted at local fishing forums at the same time. I was obviously known to him.
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On December 27, 2008, fisherman Brian Guest, 51, was killed by a great white while snorkelling at Port Kennedy in Perth's south. The attack was witnessed by the man's son and other beachgoers, who saw the shark swim off with the man in his mouth.
So let me see now....
Heres the LIST thus far - of people who for reasons known only to thenmselves and their handlers or bosses etc chose to screw with my family andbusiness and life - all because I happened to stumble upon something of great importance hiden in plain sight on a internet web site and chose (stupidly) to copy and save it because it seemed at the time "interesting".
Chantell McDougall
Leela Mc Dougal
Anton Popic
Gary Felton
Peter Batten
Peter Tunstead
James (Jim) Tunstead
Brian Guest
It's a FACT - that all of thesepeople have died - without their bodies being recovered (OR they have been exfiltrated OUT of this country).
Knowing how ruthless the Bush Crime Cabal (and their See Eye Eh) and the English Emm Eye 6 services are with failed missions - I'd not at ALL be surprised f every ONE of them was eliminated in CASE I was ever successfull in having authorities look into the actions that were taken against me and my family as a result of my posession of those documents.
You can't tell me now that all of these missing people - bodies never found - all related to a sustained operation against me by foreign intelligence services, are all just "co incidenses".
One group maybe I'd acept.
Two groups I'd be suspicious.
3 such co incidences and I am sorry - I just don't believe a word of it.
Such are the games people play with others lives, when they convince themselves taht the national interest is served by doing so.
Not a lot to laugh about hey?
And people post and publish that Kadwell / Felton was a religious cult leader and conman.
Well - if thats what people want to believe - then good luck to them - perhaps it is best that no one ever really knows what is behind it all.
People tend to sleep easier that way.
Hey some people actually believe that Julian Assange from Wikileaks is really an Australian and that hes not a spy working for some intelligence agency either - posting up millions of diplomatic cables from the USA/See Eye Eh, and Strafor etc etc.