A MAN acquitted of the murders of two Victorian police officers 19 years ago told Newcastle police the sweetest things he ever heard were the final words of one of those dying officers, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.
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Peter David McEvoy, 54, was one of four men acquitted of the Walsh Street murders in 1991.
Constables Steve Tynan and Damian Eyre were gunned down in Walsh Street, South Yarra, in October 1988, but no one was ever convicted of the killings.
Investigators believed the murders were random revenge killings one day after armed robber Graeme Jensen was shot dead by police.
McEvoy, of Denison Street, Broadmeadow, was convicted yesterday of hindering police and previously pleaded guilty to using offensive language.
He was asleep in a car when police walked to a granny flat at the rear of an Armstrong Road, Lambton, home on February 5, Newcastle Local Court heard.
McEvoy woke up, walked over to police and began an 11-minute tirade of abuse while he was stopped from entering the property and strip-searched.
The court heard McEvoy told arresting police in February, ‘‘the sweetest thing I ever heard was the police officer’s last words while he was dying’’.
McEvoy later said: ‘‘I can’t wait to put a shotgun to your head. Loaded up with a solid and watching your f---ing head get blown up,’’ the court heard.
McEvoy’s sentencing was adjourned to June.
He was serving a suspended jail sentence at the time after he was convicted of fracturing a man’s collarbone with a baseball bat at Adamstown in February last year.
He has also served jail terms for rape, drug dealing and armed robbery.
One of McEvoy’s co-accused in relation to the Walsh Street murders, Victor Pierce, was shot dead in 2002.
Police believe Carl Williams’s ex-bodyguard, the late Andrew ‘‘Benji’’ Veniamin, was the killer.
