Two decades after the petrol bomb, an arrest in Redfern teen Arthur Haines’ death | sallyrawsthorne
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following article contains an image and the name of a deceased person.The Redfern teen, who was staying at a friend’s place ahead of a trip to the Royal Easter Show, was trapped in a top-floor bedroom when a petrol bomb was thrown into a Waterloo home in April 1998.
Eleven weeks later, he died. Police announced a $1 million reward for information about Arthur’s death last year, when his devastated mother Julie Szabo told reporters she thought constantly of her son. “All this time, it’s been heartache. Every day when I wake up and until I go to bed, I never [stop] thinking about my son: what he would have been, how he would have been and what he would have become,” she said.On Wednesday, homicide detectives travelled to Brisbane and arrested 55-year-old Gregory Walker over the teen’s death.He is expected to face court in Sydney on Friday if the extradition is granted.
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