there are some stupid people around and here's the latest one that's been talked about in the country. its the 2nd biggest bridge after the sydney harbour one... and it happened during peak hour:
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor...008620,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...4-1243,00.html
A NOTE in the home of a man accused of murdering his young daughter by throwing her off Melbourne's West Gate Bridge spoke of "keeping a clear head".
"You have a big fight on your hands and by no stretch of the imagination will it be easy," says the partly legible note on the TV in the Hawthorn home of Arthur Phillip Freeman, 35.
Freeman was arrested after Darcey Iris Freeman, 4, was pronounced dead in a tragedy that left the nation in shock, the Herald Sun reports.
Doctors and paramedics fought to save the little girl but she died from massive internal injuries about four hours after she was pulled from the river by water police.
It is alleged she plunged nearly 60m from the arms of a father who was said to be devoted to his children.
Freeman was too mentally disturbed to appear in court, which was told he was on suicide watch.
The Hawthorn IT consultant was remanded in custody until May 21 on a charge of murder.
A shocked Victorian Premier John Brumby said he "just shuddered" when he heard about the tragedy.
Freeman and his wife Peta separated in March 2007.
He was due to deliver his children to school and creche yesterday morning and when they did not arrive his wife raised the alarm.
The day of tragedy began about 9.10am when a white 2004 Toyota Land Cruiser allegedly stopped on the inbound side of the West Gate in peak-hour traffic.
Horrified motorists who saw a girl dropped over the edge stopped their cars and frantically scanned the river below.
Darcey was pulled unconscious from the water close to the western bank of the river.
Paramedics spent about 50 minutes resuscitating her before she was flown to the Royal Children's Hospital in a critical condition.
About an hour later Freeman was detained after he was seen pacing up and down in a distressed state in the foyer at the Commonwealth Law Courts building in the city.
He had his two sons, Benjamin, 6, and Jack, 2, trailing behind him. Worried security staff called paramedics and police when he did not respond to their questions.
At one point he approached security staff and asked: "Can you take my kids for me?"
Freeman offered no resistance when he was arrested at the court building.
A white Land Cruiser was found parked nearby. A child booster seat was in the back seat, with children's toys and clothing.
One of the little girl's maternal uncles last night said from Perth that the family was too distressed to comment.
Darcey was pronounced dead at 1.35pm with her distraught mother at her bedside.
In Melbourne Magistrate's Court, Magistrate Lance Martin was told the accused had been deemed mentally unfit to be interviewed by detectives.
Acting Detective Sergeant Damian Jackson, of the homicide squad, told the court a forensic medical officer examined Freeman after his arrest.
"He is in an acute psychiatric state," Sgt Jackson said.
A solicitor for Freeman said the father of three appeared to be devoted to his children.
"He was very committed to his children," she said.
Freeman and his wife are registered as the joint shareholders of a company called BDJ Management Pty Ltd – named using the first initials of their children.
At Freeman's rented home yesterday, well-loved bikes, two trampolines and a rickety home-made swing sat abandoned in the back yard.
Freeman's neighbours said they rarely saw him or were invited inside his spartan, two-storey house.
His bachelor-like decorating skills stretched to tacking finger-paintings to the wall, and leaving untidy piles of clothes, toys and DVDs on the floor.
Man throws 5 year old daughter off a 60m high bridge
