*WARNING- This program contains graphic images* The abhorrent Walsh Street police shootings was the 1988 murder of two Victoria Police officers, Constables Steven Tynan, 22, and Damian Eyre, 20. The officers were in the suburb of Prahran and got a report to go too an abandoned Holden Commodore sedan in the middle of Walsh Street in South Yarra and when arrived they were brutally, horrifically gunned down and violently murdered. It was 4.47am in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 12 October 1988. It outraged the entire nation. It hadn't happened for a century, since the Ned Kelly days. Four men, Victor Peirce, Trevor Pettingill, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy, were charged with murder and later acquitted by a jury in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Two other suspects, Jedd Houghton and Gary Abdallah, were shot and killed by Victoria Police before being brought to trial. In 2005, Wendy Peirce, widow of accused Victor Peirce, gave an interview to media detailing how her late husband had planned and carried out the murders and was actually guilty as charged. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use. I do not own this video.

• published: 08 Oct 2014
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