Hells Angel bikie Christopher Wayne Hudson kept shooting at good Samaritan Brendan Keilar as he lay wounded and dying at a busy intersection in central Melbourne.
Mr Keilar was gunned down after he went to the aid of former model Kaera Douglas, who later told police Hudson was a violent drug user who was "psychotic" at the time of the shooting.
Hudson, 31, pleaded guilty in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Monday to murdering Mr Keilar and to attempting to murder Ms Douglas and Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard during the morning peak hour on June 18 last year.
Hudson opened fire on Mr de Waard and 43-year-old Mr Keilar, a city lawyer and father-of-three, as they tried to stop him assaulting Ms Douglas, who he was dragging away from a taxi by her hair.
Court documents reveal Hudson took a gun from his pants, opened fire and continued shooting at Mr Keilar and de Waard even after he had felled them both.
Hudson fired three shots into Mr Keilar, who died on the road watched by stunned city workers at the intersection of William Street and Flinders Lane.
Mr de Waard, then 25, was shot twice and Ms Douglas, then 24, was hit once at close range.
Both were critically injured, but have recovered.
Court documents reveal Ms Douglas had been in a casual but violent relationship with Hudson for just over two months.
They had taken amphetamines together and Hudson had given her black eyes and twice broken her nose.
Ms Douglas told police Hudson was a "terrible drunk" who used "a lot" of drugs.
"I believe that's why, that is the sole reason of what happened on William Street was ... he was drunk ... he's yeah, just a terrible, terrible drunk," she told police.
Earlier on the day of the shooting Hudson had been drinking at the King Street strip club Spearmint Rhino, before attending the Bar Code club next door.
Hudson assaulted Spearmint Rhino stripper Autumn Daly-Holt after seeing her perform a strip for a man at Bar Code, court documents show.
A club patron said Hudson appeared to be high on something, "possibly ice".
Hudson had lifted Ms Daly-Holt off the ground by pulling her hair, kicked her in the face and threw her onto the footpath outside Bar Code.
She was found lying unconscious with extensive facial injuries.
Ms Douglas then met Hudson nearby and he showed her the .40 calibre handgun in his pants.
She told police she was petrified as he made her walk with him down Flinders Lane and into an underground car park.
"It was horrid, it was psychotic," she told police.
"He was just completely out of his mind insane, just completely gone."
Hudson pinned Ms Douglas to a wall with a gun in his hand, then pointed it at a building manager who had come to investigate her screams.
Ms Douglas escaped and ran out onto the intersection of Williams Street and Flinders Lane, where Hudson caught up with her, attacked her and soon opened fire.
Hudson fled the scene but after a two-day hunt gave himself up to police at Wallan, north of Melbourne.
Wearing a dark grey suit, white shirt and purple tie, Hudson appeared sullen in Melbourne Magistrates court on Monday.
He pleaded guilty to one count of murder, two of attempted murder and one of intentionally causing serious injury.
He also pleaded guilty last week to a firearms charge over a separate shooting during a wild night out (as you do!!) with AFL player Alan Didak.
The Collingwood footballer was with Hudson six days before the city centre shooting when the confessed killer fired shots from his Mercedes as they drove through Melbourne.
Hudson was remanded in custody to appear in the Supreme Court in June and will be sentenced at a later date.
ninemsn 12 May 2008
Could this be a opening for the defence lawyers to get their client out of jail under the pretext of "he was not in charge of his actions"? Does this mean that he will be out in a couple of years?
Lets see how the Anglo-Masonic court system deals out justice to a person who was killed by a criminal. He should be in for life, but from past history this WILL NOT be the case.
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