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February 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The son of an independent West Australian MP has testified he was “10 out of 10 drunk” on the night he took control of his father’s ski boat and crashed into a pylon at speed, causing life-threatening injuries to one of his passengers.
Kate Campbell, 24, is suing Luke Woollard – the son of Alfred Cove MP Janet Woollard and prominent Perth cardiologist Keith Woollard – to recover more than $200,000 in medical bills, lost earnings and ongoing dental treatment.
Ms Campbell was put in a coma and suffered a broken ankle, pelvis, vertebrae and jaw, a shattered larynx, torn oesophagus and eight missing teeth when she slammed into the boat’s dashboard and windscreen as it crashed near the South of Perth Yacht Club in the early hours of November 7, 2007.
The WA District Court heard from Luke Woollard on Thursday that he was “as drunk as you can get before passing out” after a day and night of drinking with friends to celebrate end-of-year university exams.
Mr Woollard said while he was normally a “responsible (boat) driver” and had a skipper’s ticket, he was not a “responsible person” at the time of the accident as he often went binge drinking.
In testimony that was slow, stilted, monosyllabic and almost robotic in its delivery, Mr Woollard said he could remember very little on the night, apart from having trouble untying his father’s boat when it was time to leave.
But he admitted he was an experienced skipper who had passed on many occasions the same pylon that he later crashed into.
Earlier, defence lawyer Raoul Cywicki argued that Ms Campbell had assumed her own risks when she boarded the boat that night, as she was fully aware of his client’s “intoxicated” and “incapable” state.
Mr Cywicki said Ms Campbell had turned down three offers of lifts or taxi rides home from outside the University of WA, in the western suburb of Crawley, so she could ride in the boat on the Swan and Canning rivers with her partner to his home in Salter Point, in Perth’s south.
He said Ms Campbell’s evidence over the preceding days had been “inconsistent and conflicting”, and that her “need for validation” had become “her obsession”, leading to the civil case against Mr Woollard.
Mr Woollard is to continue his testimony before Judge Philip McCann on Friday.
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