'Words still haunt me': family 嘆願 after 致命的な 解雇する/砲火/射撃

After seeing a television news 報告(する)/憶測 about a 致命的な 解雇する/砲火/射撃, Ken Bemi 恐れるd the worst and rang his father.

His dad's 返答 still haunts him more than 30 years later.

His uncle Desmond William Bemi, 59, was の中で five men who died in an 早期に morning 炎 at Ipswich's Oakdale Guest House, west of Brisbane, on December 29, 1990.

Trevor Joseph Ganter, 64, Salvatore Mario Tusa, 41, Edward Turner Boyne, 80, and Eldred Frederick Glode, 68, were the other 犠牲者s of the 3am 解雇する/砲火/射撃.

Thirty-four years later, police have 申し込む/申し出d a $500,000 reward for (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) in relation to the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd 放火(罪).

Ken Bemi can still 解任する the morning of the 致命的な 炎.

"I saw the 早期に morning news. I rang my father and said 'the Oakdale 解雇する/砲火/射撃, Desi'," he told reporters on Tuesday.

"I'll never forget the words my father replied: 'he's gone'.?

"To this day those words still haunt me."

Emotions are still raw for many of the 犠牲者s' families as they 捜し出す answers.

"He was a valued and loved human 存在, and he did not deserve the end that he had," said Mr Ganter's niece Genia Otuszweski.

The 解雇する/砲火/射撃 happened after 居住(者)s had a number of altercations with 訪問者s at the guest house the previous evening, 含むing one over the 窃盗 of a packet of cigarettes.

Queensland Police don't believe any of the 犠牲者s were 伴う/関わるd in the altercations before the 炎 destroyed the historic, two-storey guest house which housed more than two dozen 居住(者)s at the time.

"There were 27 men and one woman, mostly from disadvantaged backgroun ds," 探偵,刑事 上級の Sergeant Tara Kentwell told reporters.

"The 解雇する/砲火/射撃 spread quickly through the 木造の structure, 原因(となる)ing 居住(者)s to 逃げる from the building and jump from windows to escape."

A white Holden sedan with a gold roof was seen parked 近づく the guest house with two men running に向かって it away from the 解雇する/砲火/射撃, police said.

In 1992, a 22-year-old man was 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with 殺人 and 放火(罪) に引き続いて a coronial 検死 but the 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s were later dropped.

In 2008 police 申し込む/申し出d a $250,000 reward for (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状).

It has now been 二塁打d with police reviewing the 事例/患者 after その上の (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) 示唆するd the 解雇する/砲火/射撃 had been deliberately lit.

Police and the 犠牲者s' families 勧めるd anyone with (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) to come 今後.

共犯者s will receive 保護 from 起訴 through 賠償金, police said.

"It is raw," Ms Otuszweski said.?

"It never goes away until it's 解決するd and it won't be 解決するd until someone is brought to 司法(官) for this."?

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