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Anita Bingham’s life changed forever just hours after her father Steve dropped her off at her casual job at the former convict settlement in southern Tasmania on April 28, 1996 – and the Port Arthur massacre began
A 17-year-old waitress caught in the middle of the Port Arthur massacre has relived the moment she kept customers calm while locked inside a cafe as deranged gunman Martin Bryant murdered 35 people a few hundred metres away.
Anita Bingham’s life changed forever just hours after her father Steve dropped her off at her casual job at the former convict settlement in southern Tasmania on April 28, 1996.
She had only been working at the Frances Langford Tearooms – one of two cafes on the site – for about a month on that icy autumn morning when, sometime after 1.30pm, she heard the killer start to unload his semi-automatic rifle.
On Monday, the now 41-year-old said she struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder ever since and could ‘still hear the gunshots’ as the 25th anniversary of the attack draws near.
After racing outside to see what was going on, Ms Bingham told the Woman’s Day she saw people running from the Broad Arrow Cafe.
‘Initially I thought it was a convict reenactment show, but I knew something wasn’t right. People were ducking behind walls,’ she said.
Anita Bingham suffered from PTSD after working at a cafe on the day killer Martin Bryant shot 35 people dead in Port Arthur
Martin Bryant (pictured) killed 35 people and injured a further 23 when he went on a rampage in Port Arthur in Tasmania 25 years ago
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