Helen Pitt
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You know, the police reporters I interviewed that were there that night, interestingly, they have never been called up to give evidence in any of these subsequent investigations since, that everyone knew the cops were crooked.
Now, who they were protecting, I don't know.
We may never know.
But there's questions that remain.
And at this point, even the families who lost children there, there's questions as to whether or not is it worthwhile having another inquest to go through the embers of their grief again?
Is it worthwhile?
I don't know.
But there's so many answers that are not given.
Well, this NCA report said that he'd coveted the site for 20 years.
Now, once we... We don't know why Neville Rand, the Premier at the time, would not grant a long-term lease to Leon Fink...
and his partner Nathan Spatt.
What we do know is when the park did reopen, the Goldstein brothers got the lease and they are actually Abe Saffron's cousin and his nephew actually ended up being responsible for the accounting of the park.
So...
We don't know.
The name has been linked.
Abe Saffron's name has been linked to that Luna Park fire for almost as soon as it happened.
And Martin Sharp was one of the first to put two and two together, which is why I think he became obsessed with it.
He called his friend the night of the fire and immediately suspicious.
I don't know.
I wish I knew.