Her sources were prisoners, cops, prison guards, relatives of the Whiskey's victims, lawyers, reporters and others whose memories, and sometimes consciences, remained troubled by the awful crime. Even after John Stuart died suspiciously in prison in 1979, "Ma" Watts continued gathering information about the "real" Whiskey Au Go Go culprits.
Neither did John Stuart's long-suffering mother, Edna Watts, who spent the rest of her life trying to prove his innocence. Fifteen people died in the inferno, but Danny Stuart never accepted that his uncle was responsible. He was just 13 when police swarmed the family home in Brisbane and carted off his Uncle John for firebombing the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in the early hours of March 8, 1973. Both are now dead, and until recently Danny Stuart was doing his best to put them - and his own childhood torments - behind him. One was his uncle, John Andrew Stuart the other his father, Daniel, whose evidence helped to send John to prison for one of Australia's worst mass murders. Almost 40 years after his uncle was found guilty of one of Australia's worst mass murders, Danny Stuart tells Frank Robson he believes the wrong man was convicted for the firebombing of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub.ĭanny Stuart is plagued by memories of two strange and dangerous men.
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