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Another racist murder - father of five bashed to death on Christmas day while playing beach cricket with his family

Elizabeth Krantz - 3 January 2008

In a situation reminiscent of the racist murder of Andrew Farrugia, and the racist murder of Leon Robinson, a 49-year-old father of five was enjoying a game of beach cricket with his family at the  coastal town of Geraldton 425 km north of Perth in Western Australia when he was attacked by a large group of Aboriginals and bashed to death with his own cricket bat.

Bill Rowe, a well-known and respected farmer from the small farming community of Yalgoo, two hour's drive east of  Geraldton was enjoying a game of beach cricket with his family at Geraldton's Sunset Beach late in the afternoon on Christmas Day when  a group of Aboriginals spoiling for a fight with white people arrived and began harassing the family groups, rummaging through eskies and stealing alcohol. Intimidated, some families packed up and left. 

The police began to receive phone calls from family groups reporting the disturbances, thievery and intimidation. 

The mob turned their attention to the Rowe family, who believing they had safety in numbers, told the group of about five Aboriginals to stop taking drinks out of their esky. 

The gutless thugs left but returned a short time later with about 20 others and attacked the Rowe family with bottles, rocks and sticks. Rowe family members again urgently phoned the police.

When Bill Rowe's future son-in-law, Luke Neil, 29, told them to get out his esky, he was viciously attacked. Mr Neil's face needed 35 stitches after it was slashed with a broken beer bottle. The attack  also left him with a broken jaw and broken collarbone.  

"You white cunts are in for a bashing"

As the family members were bundling Mr Neil into a car to take him to hospital the mob closed in around them hurling abuse. A woman in the group yelled, "you white cunts are in for a bashing".

As Bill Rowe was trying to protect Mr Neil from further attack he was bashed from behind with his own cricket bat and collapsed unconscious.

Mr Rowe and Mr Neil were taken to Geraldton Regional Hospital, where Mr Rowe died at 2.30 am. His family was by his bedside when his life support was turned off.

The police never arrived until the Rowe family had left. By that time the gutless mob had disappeared.

Matthew Roy McDonald, 21, of no fixed address, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm in relation to Mr Rowe's death. Two boys - aged 14 and 16 - were subsequently charged with the attack on Mr Neil.

Like most of the black on white violence, the perpetrators are half-castes or part Aboriginals. They are as much European as Aboriginal but prefer to identify with the Aboriginal grievance industry. They are not residents of outback camps. They are urban Eurabs (European-Aboriginals). They live in the suburbs along with the whites but seem to have a deep resentment of the white side of their background.

Aboriginal crime out of control

Aboriginal violence and crime is out of control in Geraldton as indeed it is in every town in WA with a large Aboriginal population.

Channel 7s Today Tonight ran an interview on December 28 with a former Geraldton resident who left town because it was so dangerous.

Norm Parson, 77, left Geraldton and moved to Adelaide three years ago because he feared for his life in Geraldton. Mr Parson related how his windows frequently rattled from home-made bombs, water meters were smashed and trees and plants vandalised.

"You could be sitting at a table outside a restaurant", Mr Parson said, "they would sit down and spit in your food. If you objected, you got your face bashed into your food".

"I was born and bred in Geraldton, but it got too scary and dangerous. I had to leave for my own safety", Mr Parson said.

Another resident, Joanna Olsen told how she had witnessed vicious gang attacks. "They roam around in gangs looking for trouble. It is always a 20 to 1 situation where they gang  up on a single person who doesn't stand a chance", she said. 

Rampant political correctness

In a cowardly surrender to political correctness, not once was the word "Aboriginal" mentioned in the Channel 7 story, the perpetrators just being referred to as "they" or "the gangs". 

It is normal practice for the politically correct authorities to deny any racial motivation when an Aboriginal attacks a white person.

If a white man attacks a person of any other race, the authorities and media go into overdrive slamming Australians' racist attitudes.

Read our story on the so-called "Cronulla riots" to glimpse the bias of the mainstream media in slandering  Australians over their "racism".

In our politically correct world it seems that only white people are racists.

Bill Rowe, murdered on Christmas Day 2007 in a vicious racist attack.

"You have always been and always will be adored, respected, a true inspiration and our idol. 

You are our best mate. We will always treasure the good times together. 

We love you dad" - death notice written by Bill Rowe's five children.

The police forensic squad examine the murder scene at Sunset Beach
Matthew McDonald's uncle confronts the media and says the (taxpayer-funded) Aboriginal Legal Service will make a formal statement on the family's behalf in a few days.
Acting Assistant Police Commissioner flew to Geraldton to take charge of the investigation and to defend the police's pathetically slow response to the emergency phone calls.

Mr Gere reluctantly admitted that police had received a "significant number" of phone calls on the 000 emergency number reporting the disturbances at the beach.

A faster police response time would have saved Mr Rowe's life.

Mr Gere asserted that the attacks were not racially motivated, but simply an argument between families.

Baloney! 

Just note the Aboriginal woman's threats (main column) as reported in The West Australian on December 28.

 

 

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