Somebody at Dezi Freeman’s old home – the property housing the bus encampment where he murdered two police officers last August – has been having fun with the wild conspiracy theories of where he may have been.
A sign on the newly-repaired and reinforced security fence at the front of the Porpeunkah property includes a fictitious forwarding address for Freeman in South Africa – presumably referencing one of the more speculative theories that Freeman was hiding in plain sight on a Cape Town tourist strip.
The report by the Herald Sun in November stemmed from a Melbourne businessman identified only as Stuart, who claimed to have seen Freeman in South Africa on September 1. He challenged the police’s Summit Taskforce to prove him wrong.
The crude, handmade sign also references the iconic Australian children’s classic Bottersnikes and Gumbles, illustrated by Desmond Digby.
For those unfamiliar, the classic kids’ book is set deep in the Australian bush and centres on conflict between the helpful and hardworking Gumbles and the angry, destructive Bottersnikes.
In a further twist, the sign lists Freeman/Digby’s address as being in ‘Wakefield’ South Africa, presumably in reference to Bottersnikes and Gumbles’ author Sydney Wakefield, or perhaps Cape Town-born, anti-Apartheid activist Sybil Wakefield, who lived in Adelaide.
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