Peter Walker, aged 80 prisoner in Broadmeadows Detention Centre awaiting your be deported to England. (The last time he was in England was 1949 - he was 8 years old.)

He has no family in England and nowhere to live.  He is being deported for convictions of drug and weapons possession. (The sentencing judge said he deserved a chance as he has been a contributor to society for decades, had a faithful wife and is close to his children) 
BUT he is a man who the authorities will never forgive for his past actions as he is the man that escaped from Pentridge in December 1965 with Ronald Ryan & whilst  he was running away a guard tried to stop him and Ronald Ryan fired a shot at the guard with a rifle he took from the tower guard. At the same time a guard on the tower fired a shot at Walker. The guard was killed however at the trial a forensic expert testified Ryan would have had to have been 9 feet tall ( about 270 cms) to have killed the guard because the bullet entered at downward angle . Two years later the guard who fired the shot killed himself however they still hanged Ryan - the last man legally executed in Australia

Peter Walker received 12 years for manslaughter on top of 12 years for a bank robbery on top of another 12 years for manslaughter of a truck driver who tried to arrest him for the reward, Serious crimes but a with a total of 36 years Serving 19 and another 9 whilst on parole After being Released in 1984 he worked and started a family. Had a minor setback with 12 months sentence for marijuana in 2001. What happened in 1965 should not influence a decision whether an 80 year old man remains in Australia with his family or is sent to a country where he hasn’t been since 1949.

Below is a letter to please read and if agree sign the petition and help your voice for Peter be heard 

 

To Home Affairs and Our Australian Government Ministers 

I write in support of Peter Walker’s request to revoke his mandatory visa cancellation .

He is currently held in Broadmeadows Detention Centre and is 80 years old.
His wife and family are in Australia. He has no family or support in the UK.

I am a concerned member of the Australian public and feel my voice is worthy of shown to be in support of rectifying something I feel our country is making a wrong decision on.

Peter Walker was sent here as an 8 year old child after the death of his mother. It was an agreement by both the UK and Australian governments to send 10,000 children here to be dumped into institutions across Australia.
Peter was one of them. He was placed in St John’s Home in Canterbury Victoria.
A vast number of those 10,000 children were either physically, mentally or sexually abused - sometimes all three.
The children were forced to work under slave labour conditions
The entire process was a blight on the reputation of both countries.

Not surprisingly Peter found himself in gaol in 1965 for bank robbery.
He accepts that during that period he did some bad things. He was convicted of two counts of manslaughter and spent 19 years in prison, including 9 years in the notorious H Division where men were bashed and terrorised as found by the Jenkinson Enquiry into Pentridge 1972.

He then spent another 9 on parole. After his release in 1984 he had one conviction in 30 years ( for marijuana) until he was arrested in 2014 for drug and weapon possession.
Until then he had worked and run businesses of his own. He was an asset to the community for 30 years
He served over 4 years for the possession charges.
The sentencing judge, Chief Justice Kidd of the County Court declared that Peter Walker was “not a threat to society”.
So why deport him?

Under the Ministerial Direction No.65 there are many considerations to enable revoking this mandatory decision.
I feel that these considerations should be viewed
and implemented as a means to allow Peter Walker to remain in Australia and be with his family.
He would not know what to do if at 80 years old he was sent to a country where he hasn’t been for 72 years.

I do understand that you need to make considerations to protect the community as per the Ministerial Direction No 65 and these consierations being whether Peter might put a child at risk which is not a consideration in the case of Peter Walker. Also remembering that Justice Kidd has declared that he is no risk to the community.

I ask you as a citizen of this country that we both call home to rescind the decision to send him to a country where he would be lost.

Peter Walker is 80, he needs his family here in Australia. And they need him
The Australia I know and love and respect has always been a country with humanity
Don’t let us lose that quality

Thank you for hearing my voice

Signed .....