*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, homophobia***On Anzac Day of 1999, life partners Keith Hibbins and David Campbell were walking through the Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne when they were approached by two agitated young men, John Whiteside and Kristian Dieber. The young men claimed they were on the lookout for a pair of rapists who had just sexually assaulted a young woman nearby, but were they telling the truth?---Narration – Anonymous HostResearch & writing – Elsha McGillCreative direction – Milly RasoProduction & music – Mike MigasMusic – Andrew JoslynAudio editing – Anthony TelferSign up for Casefile Premium:Apple PremiumSpotify PremiumPatreonFor all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/case-313-keith-hibbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: What is the background of Keith Hibbins and David Campbell?
April 25 1999 war ein leiserer Sonntag für 47-jähriger David Campbell und sein 15-jähriger Partner, 45-jähriger Keith Hibbins. Die beiden lebten im inneren Melbourne-Büro von Collingwood, in einem Haus, das sie zusammen designten. Keith war Architekt, David war Landscaper und sie kombinierten ihre Fähigkeiten, um das Haus ihrer Träume zu erschaffen.
The two typically spent their weekends lounging at home or catching up with friends at the pub, but they'd decided to take advantage of the autumn weather and spend a day in the country. After visiting waterfalls and wineries in the Yarra Valley town of Marysville, they drove back to the city with a nice bottle of red wine.
On the way home to cook dinner, David remembered they were out of olive oil. They'd need to get cash out to buy some. The ATM they usually frequented was located on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne's CBD, just outside of the Peter McCallum Cancer Institute. This was on the corner of Lansdowne Street and St.
Andrews Place, a park-lined thoroughfare just a few minutes from the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground, known as the MCG. It was usually easy to find a parking spot, but it was busier than usual on account of it being Anzac Day. Technisch bezeichnete die nationalen öffentliche Weihnachtszeit einen jährlichen Tag der Erinnerung an Australiener und New Zealander, die in der Kriege gesorgt haben.
Aber für die Melbourneser war es auch die jährliche Fußball-Match der australischen Regierungen zwischen zwei der staatlichen populärsten Fußballteams, Collingwood und Essendon. Die Spiele hatten früher am MCG gespielt und hatten eine Gruppe von ca. 73.000 Zuschauer gedreht. Given the lingering football traffic, there were no available car spaces near the ATM.
Instead, Keith and David parked further down Lansdowne Street and took a longer walk. After getting cash out at the ATM, they decided to walk back to their car through the Fitzroy Gardens, a 64-acre urban green space filled with tree-lined pathways, an ornamental lake and a mock Tudor village. By this point, it was around 7 p.m.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the encounter in Fitzroy Gardens?
The Brushtail Possums came out at night and David and Keith enjoyed watching them. As the couple made their way through the park, two young men suddenly raced towards them. One of them asked aggressively, Hey, you blokes, have you seen two blokes running through here or hiding in here?
The young men told Keith and David that a woman had just been raped in the gardens and they were looking for the offenders. David could smell that the men reeked of alcohol. In unison, he and Keith offered to call the police, but the men replied that they'd already done so. David asked them what the rapists looked like. The taller of the two men replied angrily, We don't know.
The younger men became increasingly hostile. David began to sense that trouble was brewing. Keith asked the man why they were being so aggressive when he and David were happy to offer their help. But inside, the couple had their suspicions. Von den 70er-Jahren bis in die frühen 2000er-Jahre erhielt Sydney eine unerwartete Reputation als das Gay-Bashing-Kapital Australiens.
Für viele Jahre wurden Gay-Männer von Gangs für nichts mehr als ihre Sexualität ausgewertet. Diese Begriffe wurden von vielen als Sport genannt, und die Verbrecher brachten oft über ihre Verbrechen.
In 2018 hat die Regierung von New South Wales eine speziale Berichterstattung über diese historischen Hasskriege eröffnet und herausgefunden, dass in den letzten vier Jahrzehnten ein Average von 20 Männern, die jeden Tag geflüchtet wurden, verurteilt wurden. So viele wie 88 Männer wurden während dieser Zeit verurteilt. Viele dieser Morde sahen sich zu Suiziden aus.
Sydney wasn't the only Australian city troubled by these violent hate crimes. Throughout the early 1990s it was reported by the Age newspaper that on average a gay person was murdered in Melbourne and its surrounding suburbs every two to three months. Offenders sought victims at toilet blocks and public parks known to be frequented by gay men seeking casual sex.
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Chapter 3: How did past hate crimes in Australia affect the community?
Bashings at one regional toilet block became so commonplace that authorities recommended it be demolished altogether. Keith Hibbins und David Campbell waren offensichtlich gay und präsentierten sich so, oft mit Arm in Arm. As David later told author Steve Dow, most people know that we're gay without our ever having to say it.
They were all too aware of the looming threat of violence, with David alone having been the victim of at least four gay bashings in the past. There was a particular area within the Fitzroy Gardens that was known to be a hangout for gay men.
Therefore, when they were approached by two young men who were acting overtly aggressive towards them, David and Keith were immediately suspicious of their story that they were trying to catch a rapist. Instead, David thought they might have been gay bashers. He exchanged a knowing look with Keith, who said, We've got to get out of here. Run. David and Keith took off towards Lansdowne Street.
The other two men started chasing them. As they ran past a light pole, David's foot became caught on its concrete base and he tripped over. He tried to pull himself back up, but before he managed to do so, something made contact with his mouth and nose. He couldn't tell if it was a fist or a foot.
David wurde dann face first in den Boden gedrückt, wo die Männer ihn mehrere Male in den Beinen, Hüften und Gesichten drückten. Er hörte einen von ihnen sagen, ich werde dich fucking töten. Keith sah, was passiert war und rutschte zurück, um Hilfe zu bekommen. Lass ihn allein, fragte er. Dieser kurze Verlust gab David die Möglichkeit, sich aufzuhalten und wegzuhalten.
Mit einem Sturz von Adrenalin fortsetzte er, sich auf die Sicherheit von Lansdowne Street zu bewegen. He could feel that one of the attackers was hot on his heels. Once they reached the street, David sideswiped straight into the oncoming traffic. He ran into the middle of the road, desperately waving his arms in an attempt to flag someone down. By the time he got to St.
Andrews Lane on the other side, the attacker was gone. A married couple named Paul and Michelle Rogers pulled over. Somebody help us, please, David pleaded. I've been bashed. Keith didn't take the straight path out of the gardens. Instead, he ran at an angle into the darkness, with the taller of the two attackers pursuing him.
An accident years earlier left Keith with a broken arm and a leg, which had been screwed back together. As a result, he wasn't particularly agile and ran in a way described as being like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. Keith pushed onwards until he emerged from the gardens further north up Lansdowne Street.
From the seventh floor of the nearby Peter McCallum Cancer Institute, a woman peered out of a window and noticed what was unfolding on the street below. Keith Hibbins was pinned up against a car, while the two younger men were, quote, punching the crap out of him.
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Chapter 4: Who were John Whiteside and Kristian Dieber?
Die Gruppe fuhr zum Spiel zusammen, wo sie ein paar mehr Trinken hatten, bevor sie nach Essendon nach 8 Punkten zurückkehrten, nachdem sie Collingwood gewonnen hatten. Willig, weiterzumachen, wollten sie weiter in die Stadt, um mehr Trinken zu holen, bevor sie eine Nacht brachten.
Um 7.00 Uhr begann die Gruppe von sechs die Wellington-Parade auf dem südlichen Perimeter der Fitzroy Gardens zu gehen. Dort kamen sie zu einer jungen Frau, die auf dem Boden schlank war, hysterisch weinend. Sie war ohne Fuß und hatte nur einen Sock, während die Strapfe ihrer Singletopse aus der Schulter geschliffen waren.
Die Gruppe kam, um zu sehen, ob sie in Ordnung war, aber als sie das gemacht haben, schrie sie, »Wirst du mich auch verletzen?« In an apparent state of panic, she threw her wallet at them, saying, Just take it and leave me alone. John Whiteside, Christian Dieber and their group of friends didn't know what to do.
One of them gave the woman his jacket, before Whiteside draped his Collingwood scarf around her neck. A jogger came over and told the group he'd run past the woman earlier and heard her arguing with two men. While the group discussed what to do, the woman continued to sob uncontrollably. They opened her wallet to check if she had any ID and learned that she was 23-year-old Evgenia Sionis.
The group offered to hail her a taxi, but Evgenia said no. She wanted the police instead. A member of the group called emergency services, requesting both the police and an ambulance. Evgenia continued crying. One of the men asked her if she'd been raped, but she didn't give a clear answer. They pressed on, asking if she'd been sexually assaulted. She said yes, she had been assaulted by two men.
John Whiteside and Christian Dieber didn't wait around to hear more. With the police and paramedics on the way to tend to Evgenia, they set out on a mission of their own. To find the men responsible. Keine zwei Trader sind gleich.
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Chapter 5: What were the events leading up to the attack on Keith Hibbins?
After arriving on the scene to find Keith Hibbins unconscious and battered on the street, police took Whiteside and Deba into custody. Beide haben vollständig mit allen Prozeduren zusammengearbeitet und hatten keinen Wunsch, ihre Version der Erfolge zu geben.
Ihre Erinnerungen haben sich gegenseitig verglichen, aber die Erinnerungen waren bedeutend an David Campbells und andere Anwesende, die den Angriff gesehen hatten. Beide Whiteside und Deba sagten, sie seien überrascht worden, dass sie Evgenia Sionis gefunden haben. Whiteside beschrieb sie als so erschrocken, dass es schrecklich war.
Someone close to him had been raped and this prompted an emotional reaction. While he admitted he probably should have just waited for the police with the rest of his group, his thought process at the time was that the safest thing to do was to look around for the offenders.
Whiteside and Deber claimed that they weren't aggressive when they approached Keith Hibbins and David Campbell to ask if they'd seen anyone running past. Deber recalled, We were as calm and rational as you can get. It was only when Keith and David started acting nervously and decided to sprint away that Whiteside and Deba suspected they were responsible for the rape.
Whiteside told the police, The two gentlemen just acted very, very strange and when they started to run off, that wasn't a good look. It looked like they did it. Neither John Whiteside nor Christian Dieber mentioned attacking David Campbell after he tripped over or threatening to kill him. Dieber said he'd simply grabbed David and asked why he was running away.
When David took off again, Dieber said he chased him for a while before giving up. He looked up Lansdowne Street and saw that Whiteside had caught Keith. Dieber told the police... According to Dieber, Keith yelled some violent things back at them, at one point threatening, I'm gonna kill you, you dobber, which was a colloquial term for an informant.
Dieber sagte, ihr Ziel war es, Keith in der Lage zu halten, bis die Polizei kam, aber er resistierte, prompting Dieber und Whiteside, ein paar Schüsse zu schießen. Dieber sagte, sie hätten Keith nicht so hart getroffen und dass der echte Schmerz, der er verursacht hat, wenn er seinen Kopf auf dem Boden geknallt hat. Er sagte der Polizei...
I am a security guard, so I know you can use reasonable force to make a lawful arrest. My objective wasn't to hurt him, but what else can you do? I didn't have handcuffs or anything like that. I thought you could use a bit of force to make a citizen's arrest. John Whiteside contradicted his friend slightly, saying it was Deba who dive tackled Keith on the street before Whiteside stepped in.
He claimed that he grabbed Keith, who tried to take a swing at him. Whiteside said he then hit Keith a couple of times in the jaw, four at the most, but they were only short, sharp hits and not enough to knock him out. Whiteside explained, I was chucking the swings basically in self-defense. I was shaking him, saying, what's going on? How come you're running away? You obviously know something.
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Chapter 6: How did the police respond to the incident?
He eventually moved to Melbourne to study architecture, where he dated a few women before coming out as gay. At six feet tall, he was known to be a bit of a party animal who loved the nightlife. Even though David considered himself more of a homebody, he was instantly drawn to Keith.
Their connection was immediate and it wasn't long before they'd moved in together and started building a shared life. In recent years Keith had slowed his partying ways. The couple's weekend routine typically consisted of watching movies at their renovated Edwardian home that Keith had redesigned and a trip to the pub.
The doctors and police reassured David that Keith was going to be okay, but as the days ticked by, he still hadn't regained consciousness. By Thursday May 6 1999, 11 days had passed since the attack. David was away from the hospital when he got a call saying it was time to come and say his final goodbye. He made it there in time for Keith to die in his arms.
Eine Autopsie bestätigte die Todesursache von Keith als Blut-Helm-Trauma, das die rechte vertebrale Arterie zerstörte und einen fadalen Gehirnbruch verursachte. Nicht nur war diese Nachricht eine Tragödie für Keiths Verliebte, sie hat auch Dinge für John Whiteside und Christian Dieber verändert. Mit Keith, der durch den Angriff weggeflogen ist, wurden die Anzeichen gegen ihn zu Mörder verbessert.
While those involved struggled to come to terms with these developments, there was still the question of who was responsible for the sexual assault against Evgenia Sionis. Weeks passed and no arrests were made. Then, one month after the attack, Evgenia made a shocking revelation. On Anzac Day of 1999, Evgenia woke up at her boyfriend's place and started the day by smoking cannabis.
The couple lounged around in bed for a while before deciding to go rollerblading in the beachside suburb of St Kilda. After a short jaunt around the foreshore, they stopped in at the nearby Esplanade Hotel. It was 11.30 am when Evgenia ordered her first drink for the day, a bourbon and coke. She had three more drinks in quick succession and the booze kept flowing from there.
Evgenia und ihr Freund Tony spielten den Tag von einem St. Kilda Pub auf den nächsten. Am Abendabend war Evgenias Hände aufgerissen. Sie war so trank, dass sie auf ihren Beinen stürzte. Sie und Tony fuhren in sein Auto und fuhren nach dem CPD. Evgenia wollte in einen anderen Pub, aber Tony fühlte, dass sie schon zu trank war und sie sollten eine Nacht anrufen.
As they approached the Fitzroy Gardens, an argument broke out between them. Evgenia became furious. When Toni stopped at a red light, she jumped out of the car, saying she wanted to go for a walk and get some fresh air. Toni drove onto the grassy verge and urged her to get back in, but Evgenia refused.
Frustrated by the whole situation, Toni drove off, leaving her in the cold with no shoes or jumper. Stumbling around the park, Evgenia began to cry. She collapsed onto the grass, sobbing, until a group of passers-by approached. When they asked if she'd been raped, she spontaneously said yes. Everything she'd said from that point on was a lie. Casefile will be back shortly.
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