John Makita
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219 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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I'm not satisfied with where things are going because just there had been obviously no arrests and no progress in the case that I would get on board with the Who Killed Emma campaign and ensure that nobody in Canberra forgot what had happened on that night in November 1999.
Well, it's interesting because, yeah, I spent a phenomenal amount of time working in the Canberra community to get the message out, not knowing that it was all the way down the road in Melbourne where we should have been concentrating.
But I started to realise through just talking with police over the years that resources weren't available to continuously work on a lot of these cold cases, including ours, which was one of the most recent ones.
And there were questions about people who had submitted evidence or leads to ACT policing, but there was no resources available to be following them up.
And that sort of like got me into the frame of mind that I really need to do something now about this, because if that is the case, then I want the police and I want the government to do everything they possibly can to be able to catch these people.
I was actually interstate for work and I had received a call from Craig Marriott to say that we've actually arrested, we're about to arrest somebody.
So they had given us a 24 hours heads up just to let the family know.
to prepare ourselves.
And so I flew back to Canberra so that we could do some media straight away as soon as it had happened.
But that was essentially the first time that we had known that they were actually going to arrest somebody for the crime, the first person.
It was a little bit of disbelief.
The phone call really threw me.
I remember I was actually at train station on the north coast of New South Wales and my colleagues who were with me were sort of like, are you okay?
Because I sort of lost the feeling in my legs and I was squatting on the ground.
It was just...
Utter amazement that after so long and fighting so hard that we were actually going to have somebody now be responsible for what had happened to my grandparents.
Well, in the first few days, unfortunately, I was unable to be inside the courtroom because I was going to be called as a witness.
And so I missed out on the opening statements and a few other things, which I wasn't overly happy about.
My parents couldn't come into the courtroom because...
It was just too hard on them.
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