At 9.00am the British authorities that were transporting ‘The FMS Gang’ arrived at Kerobokan jail and collected their prisoners. The local police didn’t seem to make the connection between the five men who were bought in on drunk and disorderly and assault charges and the five FMSers who were signed out, so it looked as though those guys had managed to avoid having to face those charges against them. Shackled again, ‘The FMS Gang’ was transported back to Denpasar airport where they boarded their repaired Jumbo jet for the final leg of their trip to Australia. At 11.00am the plane took to the skies and headed for Sydney. Six hours later and the Qantas flight was touching down at Mascot airport in Sydney. ‘The FMS Gang’ was swiftly whisked through the customs and immigration zone and was marched out ahead of most of the disembarking passengers that had shared the flight with them. That was when the next set of fun and games started.
The Australian media hadn’t been sitting around with their thumbs up their arses waiting for a new story to surface. They had heard of the controversial case that had resulted in thirty or so men being transported from Britain to Australia for the crime of writing corruptive football stories and they had decided that the news of their arrival was going to be the event that fuelled their newspaper sales for the next week or two. Consequently as ‘The FMS Gang’ walked into the main terminal they were suddenly surrounded by a sea of television cameras, plus journalists with their accompanying photographers.
Peacemaker7 seemed to have been identified as one of the key FMSers and a barrage of question were aimed his way.
Channel 9 Reporter: “Peacemaker 7, can you tell me your feelings now that you have arrived in Australia?”
Peacemaker7: “I’m fuming. The whole trial was a farce. It was concocted by the English establishment purely to dampen the blossoming Scottish nationalist fervour that I have been promoting. As a growing personality on the Scottish political scene, the English framed me with these pathetic and trumped up charges merely to remove me from the picture”.
Before another question could be aimed at Peacemaker7, the reporter was pushed aside by one of the guards with the grunted comment of ”don’t speak to this criminal dog”.
A frail looking
BobBev was targeted by another of the camera crews as he shuffled through the terminal.
Channel 7 Reporter: “BobBev, is it true that you have been denied basic medication during your incarceration?”
BobBev: “Yes, my internet-posting addiction is well documented and I haven’t even been allowed near a laptop, let alone a PC with FM2005 installed on it. At Singapore airport the guards deliberately led me through an internet café just to taunt me. Their behaviour has been inhumane”.
Another guard shoved his big hand into the lens of the television camera to cut short the questioning. As he did he looked at BobBev and said “we’ll sort you out later, pervert.”
Last in the group to be moved though the terminal was
bartley_m and another television crew homed in on him.
Channel 10 Reporter: “bartley_m, as the youngest of ‘The FMS Gang’ what have you got to say about your situation?”
bartley_m: “I just want my Mummy and my blue blanket”.
bartley_m broke down into tears before he could speak any further and he was quickly hustled onto the waiting prison-bus that the rest of ‘The FMS Gang’ had already been led on to. The door slammed shut and the prison-bus quickly sped away from the horde of reporters swarming at the entrance to the Arrivals terminal. Its next stop was Sydney’s Long Bay prison.
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