John Makita
speaker
219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
John Makita’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, you have to sit there calmly.
You can't have any outbursts like you see on TV, you know, people screaming out and wailing and that sort of stuff.
So being in the courtroom with the two offenders on a daily basis was quite hard to do because you just feel as though that you do need to say something, but they very rarely ever gave us a glance.
Yes, absolutely.
I think I've asked most of the family, if possible, if anybody would like to be involved.
I think this is an opportunity for each of us to share what our experiences were like.
And especially considering that during the jury's deliberations, we got the feeling that there was potentially a bit of toying with the difference between murder versus manslaughter.
And therefore, I think the judge needs to know, Justice Mossop going forward, that how this has affected each and every one of us for so long when he makes his decision as to what he's going to sentence these two offenders to.
that it is going to be commiserative with what they have actually done.
In our eyes, it's always going to be is that they went in there, you know, with their, I'll call them weapons or, you know, and therefore we believe that they had every expectation that potentially something would happen to my grandparents.
of a terrible nature.
And so, you know, we would like to hope that through the victim impact statements that we can get the judge to give us a maximum sentence or something that would be acceptable or palatable to our family after waiting for so long.
Especially considering that
I think most people will say in their impact statements that we have lived a life sentence of 25 years waiting without any knowledge of what had happened to my grandparents whilst these two offenders have lived their best years of their lives.
And whilst they might be a little bit older now, I think and I'd like to hope that that's taken into consideration, that it's time for them to do the time to pay for their crime as to what they did to my grandparents on that night.
No, we don't.
Look, I'll be upfront and 100% and say no, we don't.
We still don't know how these two men found out about my grandparents.
And that's going to be something which will continue to niggle at us and not allow us to have full closure as a family.
They're somehow people who lived all the way on the other side of down south in Melbourne had found out about my grandparents back in the first incident when they were robbed.
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