Alpine Opinion

Honest John

Posted in law by Ray Dixon on 29 October, 2009
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John Amenta

“Did you kill your 70-year-old mother, put her in a barrel and throw her into a creek?”

“Of course not.”

“I love my mum.”

“I’d do anything for my mum,” he said …. 

…. adding (that) police believed he had used his mum’s money after she disappeared to buy a $300,000 Ferrari.

Well, I believe him.

Source: HeraldSun

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  1. jr said, on 30 October, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    How on earth could anyone propagate any nasty thoughts about a docile looking little puppy like that?

  2. Ray Dixon said, on 30 October, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    I guess we have to let the law take its course. You can’t judge by appearances but … (censored!)

  3. RodH said, on 30 October, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    If that’s not a rat on his shoulder, then it looks like his mullet is making a run for it.

  4. Ray Dixon said, on 30 October, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    He looks like Bono in a muscle suit.

  5. Campbell said, on 30 October, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Not sure if you saw the front page of the Herald Sun yesterday, they had John on the front cover asking for help about the case. No doubt the cover was a ploy by the police to put the heat on him. Hence today’s cover of suggesting he is the killer.

    The police did a similar thing when they put a indentikit mugshot* of Jason Roberts, the co-killer of Victorian detectives Silk and Miller, on the front page.

    Roberts got paranoid and went to the police station making a statement that he wasn’t the killer.

    *The police doctored his license photo to look like a indentikit.

  6. Ray Dixon said, on 30 October, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    I think the police do that sort of thing a lot – set the suspect up to incriminate himself or herself. The bloke in Mornington who chopped up his wife & daughter and dumped them in the tip (John Sharp, I think) is another case that comes to mind.

    Hey I reckon a ‘body in a barrel’ has to be an ‘inside’ job.

  7. Baldrick said, on 30 October, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    bit tinny that joke

  8. Ray Dixon said, on 30 October, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    I thought it was ‘rolled’ gold.

  9. Sandra said, on 14 November, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    I don’t think he did it..afterall if someone says they love their mum, why would they kill them. I also don’t think its fair that someone has a trial by the media…we have a legal system in Australia that relies on the principle of justice, and fair investigation. The creation of a trial by the media, does not allow this to happen.

    I also think we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover..if someone looks a bit rough, it doesn’t mean that they killed their mum. The reports by the Herald Sun are nothing but sensationalism, and defamatory to an individual to sell a newspaper. If anyone is half intelligent they would know that a high proportion of information printed in the Herald Sun is not true.

  10. Ray Dixon said, on 14 November, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    I agree with nearly all of that, Sandra. But don’t blame the media – sometimes the police deliberately use the media to put ‘the heat’ on suspects. And if he’s innocent I have no doubt the cops will find the real killer.

  11. Sandra said, on 14 November, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    Ok I won’t blame the media then, and agree that perhaps the police are using the media to put ‘the heat’ on a suspect. However, I don’t think that is fair either. Imagine if your mother went missing, then she was found dead and then your face splattered across the front page of the news with the implication that you killed your mum. While you really wanted to grieve or mourn for your loss but have to deal with all this other senseless information put out by the media.

    Yes and I do hope that the police do find the real killer.

  12. Ray Dixon said, on 14 November, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    It would be terrible, Sandra. But if the police believed that I had used my mum’s money after she disappeared to buy a $300,000 Ferrari (as is the case here), I could understand why they’d be suspicious of me.

  13. Sandra said, on 20 November, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    Hey Ray

    Do you think its wrong if someone gets accused of murder through the media, assuming that the person is innocent (until proven guilty by a court of law), and that because of all of the media hype and sensationalism, that they end up losing thier job because the company is worried about how clients might perceive this individual?

    Sandra

  14. Ray Dixon said, on 20 November, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Yes, it would be wrong to actually “accuse” someone of murder via the media. But to imply they might be involved is different, in that it’s pretty hard to deny you have no connection to your mother. It happens all the time unfortunately and sometimes innocent people suffer from the exposure. But that’s life – it happens.


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