New inquest for Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing begins in June

But questions persisted, with crime experts repeatedly asking who else was involved and why the nightclub was set alight.

Eight years ago, crime writer Tony Reeves asked the Queensland Parliament for a new inquest into links between fires at four Brisbane nightclubs before the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go fire.

He had researched fires at Torino’s Nightclub in Ann Street on February 23, 1973, Alice’s Cafe in Brunswick Street in December 1972, and two at Chequers Nightclub in Elizabeth Street in early 1973.

He believed the Whiskey Au Go Go fire was an insurance job done under a climate of fear that Stuart perpetuated, manipulated by crooked police officers in Queensland and NSW at the time.

Department of Defence researcher Geoff Plunkett, who…