Brother's
story
of a
deadly
day
January
12,
2008
ALMOST
25
years
after
the
Milperra
massacre,
one
of
the
bikers
involved
has
written
a
first-hand
account
of
what
happened
at
the
Viking
Tavern.
Geoff
Campbell
-
known
as
Snake
-
was
a
member
of
the
Bandidos
and
was
in
the
pub's
car
park
during
the
shoot-out
on
Father's
Day,
1984.
He
lost
three
members
of
his
family
due
to
the
battle
that
killed
seven
people,
and
wrote
the
book
with
Felicity
Zeiher
as a
tribute
to
his
brothers.
He
left
the
Bandidos
years
ago.
Gregory
Campbell
and
Mario
Ciantar
-
whom
the
Campbells
considered
an
adopted
brother
-
died
on
the
day
of
the
shoot-out.
Another
brother,
Phillip
"Bull"
Campbell,
died
in
jail
two
years
later
from
a
blood
clot
his
family
blames
on
injuries
he
sustained
in
the
fight.
Campbell
and
Zeiher
also
co-wrote
a
chapter
in
an
upcoming
book
by
Arthur
Veno,
The
Mammoth
Book
Of
Bikers.
"It
was
just
[that]
when
it
comes
to
bikers,
a
lot
of
people
think
every
one
of
them's
a
nutter,"
Campbell
says.
"But
they're
all
family
men
too.
"My
brothers
died,
for
what?
For
no
reason.
They
were
just
at
the
wrong
place
at
the
wrong
day.
Bikers
are
human
too."
Campbell
has
been
writing
the
book
for
years.
He
expects
it
to
be
ready
within
six
weeks.
He
said
the
other
books
about
the
shoot-out,
such
as
Brothers
In
Arms
by
Sandra
Harvey
and
Lindsay
Simpson,
were
not
written
by
witnesses.
"I'm
telling
it
from
my
view,
what
I
saw
and
what
my
brothers
saw
and
how
it
came
about,"
he
says.
