The Woollards are back in the news. You will recall young Luke crashed his father’s boat into a pylon whilst drunk injuring Kate Campbell. She sued, she won. Poor impoverished Luke maintains he is unable to pay. I discussed it <HERE>.
Luke has said that he had made a stupid decision on the night of the boat crash, but had since been subjected to years of criminal and civil litigation, and suffered more adverse publicity than most murderers.
“I hope that the community accepts that this is enough. I would like from now on to build a life and a career.”
There seems to be no thought of accepting the umpire’s decision, Luke dismisses it as a bad legal strategy because he will avoid paying anything, while his mother describes it as part of “a campaign to vilify her family”. Mother of course is the independent MP for Alfred Cove in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. She has taken the interesting course of writing to every member of her electorate portraying the victim of her son’s drunken folly in a bad light and arguing that the court got it all wrong.
PerthNow has the story and a copy of the letter, and carries this reaction …
Labor legal affairs spokesman John Quigley described Mrs Woollard’s letter as a “low, low act”, saying that it was unacceptable that an MP would use their office to “attack a victim of crime”.
“Her letter, from a member of Parliament, is outrageous,” he said.
“I was shocked by it, because it is an attack on a victim of crime, and there is an expectation that members of Parliament will protect victims of crime – not go around kicking them in the teeth.”
Luke’s esteemed father is the cardiologist Dr. Keith Woollard.
If Luke were seriously ill, I doubt very much if his wealthy parents would say “Shame you’ve got no money, son. You’ll have to die”.
I doubt if anyone could do more to vilify the Woollard family name than the Woollards themselves. One can only hope that the electorate remembers …
bobmcgee 