Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 16 – CHAPTER 3: GARY’S STATE OF MIND

Upon return to the Fairmont Resort, Gary’s work colleagues accountED that Gary went to his room where he spent a short time with a few of them.  They claimed that Gary spoke about him going to get drugs (more drugs?) (and presumably return).   Apparently, Gary was on a mission to ‘keep the party going’.
So was Gary at the time under the influence of drugs but not alcohol or both?  If so which drugs?  If so, what combination of drugs if any combination?  If so he/his close sales colleagues would have had them in his possession before departing Sydney.  This is  explained later in this article.
Soon after Gary was dropped off back at the Fairmont Resort by local taxi, CCTV security footage captured him running out of the Fairmont reception (photo of the entrance below).
Police later obtained copies of the video footage.

 Fairmont Resort’s guest main entrance

 

Gary could have easily caught a taxi from the well-known Fairmont Resort directly to the Leura Railway Station.  He also could have better and instead easily caught a train at nearby Leura Train Station while still dining at Silks Restaurant – by just walking just 100 metres away to Leura Train station.  Buy the last train to Sydney was at 10:30 pm.

Yet in Gary’s confused state of mind at midnight chose not to get a taxi.  It was dark, freezing and he had no idea where he was going on foot.

Media reports falsely stated that he was wearing only his red checked shirt (below) without his jacket or glasses.   However, police had formally stated that Gary Tweddle at the time had been described to police as:

“being of Caucasian appearance, 165-170cm tall, medium build, brown eyes with short brown hair.  At the time of his disappearance he was wearing blue jeans, a black jacket and checked shirt.“

The black jacket mention would later contradict the discovery of Gary by paramedics.

He had forgotten his eye glasses.  This above quoted description however is vague.  There is a big difference between a human height of 165 cm (5′ 5″) and 170 cm (5′ 7″).  At 5’5″ he would be an unusually short man.  In fact, according to his girlfriend’s poster, Gary was 170 cm tall, or 5′ 7 inches, so not tall.  She ought to know his height, and so would with his mother and father, who turned up, and likely also would his GP.

 

Prior photo of Gary in his same red checked shirt with his girlfriend Anika Haigh.  This same checked shirt and dark jeans and sneakers was all he was wearing when he was ultimately found.

Back to his running out of the Fairmont, Gary then had been last seen waving at a car 400 metres from the Fairmont Resort about 12.15 am just after midnight on the Wednesday morning 17th July 2013.  The motorist ( a local) later told police that Gary was seen standing in the middle of the road (specifically Sublime Point Road) talking on his mobile phone. 

According to four of his work colleagues, Gary spent 17 minutes on a mobile phone call after midnight before it cut out on the Tuesday night that he disappeared from the Fairmont.  They had jointly spoken with him on a mobile loudspeaker as they tried to figure out where Gary was.  They said that Gary didn’t sound panicked on the phone, only that he was near a main road and was lost.

Gary then continues running/(now jogging?) southward along Sublime Point Road with his mobile phone and seeking directional guidance from his work colleagues back who were all back at the Fairmont.

They pleaded with him to stay where he was and to look in a letter box to find out exactly where he was.   Police said he finally told his colleagues he was then running and sounded as he was jumping or leaping over things as he spoke to them.
Gary then told them he was heading towards “a light on a hill” before his phone battery died.  It was 12:30 am actually on Wednesday 16th July 2013, not the Tuesday night as misreported by some media.   That was the last contact anyone had with Gary.
After some three hours, Gary’s girlfriend Anika Haigh received a phone call at 3.30 am on the Wednesday 17th July 2013 at the couple’s Cremorne flat from one of Gary’s male work colleagues at the Fairmont Resort.

Our comments and questions about this action:

(1)  So one of Gary’s work colleagues/mates after three hours of stewing, and no mobile response from Gary’s mobile, probably after trying to call Gary multiple times, decided to handball the problem to Gary’s girlfriend, likely waking her from sleep.

(2)  How did that colleague obtain Anika Haigh’s mobile number at 3:30am, unless she was also an Oracle employee, and that’s how Gary met her?  Her name is old English with a hint of Nordic, so perhaps she like many other Oracle employees was seconded from overseas, like Gary.  Gary’s party photo below reveals a mix of cultures in the group.  Anika later stated she had to travel down from Queensland after the search began.  Oracle has a Brisbane office at 300 Anne Street in the Brisbane CBD – perhaps she was working out of the Brisbane office.

(3)  The Oracle sales conference in the Blue Mountains was a male only affair, so was this part of the Ellison Oracle corporate culture – the lads do the sales heavy  lifting, while the girls are relegated to the back office?

(4)  Why didn’t Gary’s colleague instead phone Police Emergency 000 directly himself, since he knew the situation intimately, he was staying locally where Gary had gone missing so could help police with relevant information (unlike Gary’s girlfriend), and he was also awake at 3:30 am.

 

(5)  Why didn’t Gary’s colleague phone Police Emergency 000 much earlier like just after 12:30 am once his phone when dead; rather than wait another 3 hours since Gary had said he was lost and his mobile phone had gone silent?  Guilt here?   There was not going to be more cocaine party with Gary now lost.

(6)  A cowardly act!  This Gary’s colleague knew about the cocaine deals Gary had been and continued to be involved in – we explain this in detail later.  Presumably so did Gary’s other three colleagues who had stayed back at Silks Brasserie – check this lot below.  It was arse covering, and side stepping to avoid police implications about narcotics use and supply  – to avoid being sacked from Oracle once the true cocaine deal story got out).

(7)  How many of Gary’s Oracle colleagues were doing ‘coke’, including at Silks in the Men’s toilet there?   Why were few drinking alcohol at Silks according to the Silks owner/manager?   Were they imbibing something stronger, like before even arriving at Silks that night?

(8)  Was Gary their new cocaine mule?  Had he run out after being generous, and was just desperate to party hard and please?   So are they implicated in Gary’s death?   Later it turned out that one drug dealer Christopher Thomas Pambos of Earlwood (inner Sydney) was Gary’s private regular drug dealer/supplier of his cocaine.

(9)  Our research shows that back in 2013, in Sydney the street price of one gram of cocaine fetched $500.   Oracle must have financially rewarded its high-performing sales executives well to be able to splurge on that (or more) weekly.

(10)  Was this the last day of the Oracle sales conference, noting that Gary’s mother had been quoted in the media stating that her son Gary pre-arranged to “give her away” to her new fiancé that same Wednesday back in Sydney?

 We’re these Gary’s ‘mates’ because he acted as their cocaine party mule, being Oracle sales new boy?  Was Pambos, Oracle’s Sydney local go-to to cope with Oracle ‘pep talk’ coping Cocaine supply?  …yes Boss, how high?

These comments and questions are supposition and conjecture, yet we’ve collated cross-media reporting revelations in the months following Gary’s disappearance and analyse that much more was going on.

So at 3:30 am Gary’s colleague told Gary’s girlfriend that Gary was missing and that she needed to file a missing person’s report to the police so that an immediate search could be formally initiated.
This Anika promptly did, to her credit.  She must of wondered what was going down up the Mountains – in more ways than one.

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