FOR more than 40 years the Mackay family has lived with the dreadful uncertainty of not knowing what happened to Donald Mackay’s body after he was shot dead in the car park of a Griffith pub in 1977.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
It is this uncertainty that adds an extra level of malice to what was an already thoroughly despicable crime.
In life, James Frederick Bazley was a disreputable man.
He was convicted of murdering two drug couriers and is widely accepted by those intimate with the case to have been the man who pulled the trigger on Mr Mackay.
Although he was never actually convicted of Mr Mackay’s murder, he was sentenced to nine years for conspiring to kill the businessman.
Now, following Bazley’s death this week, all hopes are pinned on a dishonourable man doing an honourable thing and revealing the location of Mr Mackay’s body.
One can only hope that after 41 years of silence that when faced with mortality Bazley’s conscience finally got the better of him.
All the best for the week ahead, Ross.
