Fresh calls for Whiskey Au Go Go inquiry FORTY years after the deaths of 15 revellers at Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub, there are fresh calls for an investigation into the notorious crime. Independent Queensland MP Peter Wellington had planned to table documents in state parliament identifying "people and new evidence worthy of being tested in an appropriate court." But this afternoon he told parliament he was no longer able to refer to this information given his involvement in the parliamentary crime and misconduct committee. "As a result of these new developments I will now write to the Attorney-General referring to this new information and requesting that the Attorney-General investigate the information as quickly as possible," he told parliament. On March 8, 1973, 15 people died when two barrels of petrol were set alight at the Fortitude Valley nightclub, in what was then Australia's most deadly crime. After a police investigation, James Stuart and John Finch were convicted and jailed. Both pleaded not guilty. Stuart died in his prison cell in 1978. John Finch was paroled and deported to England. Despite a "confession" to media in 1988 he maintained his innocence, claiming he was the victim of police "verballing" and alleging wider corruption. High-profile lawyer Chris Nyst represented the National Freedom Council in the late 1980s in its bid to open a royal commission into Finch and Stuart's case. Mr Nyst told The Australian the convictions remained an intrigue due to their basis on "nothing more than an unsigned interview typed in a police office." "I'm not surprised because I think the Whiskey Au Go Go trial left more questions than it delivered answers," he said. The reality of it is that Stuart and Finch were convinced of what was then the biggest mass murder in Australian history on the basis of nothing more than an unsigned record of interview. It became more controversial as time went on. He said allegations had arisen linking police corruption - later revealed in the Fitzgerald and Woods inquiries in Queensland and NSW respectively - to the Whiskey Au Go Go matter. Earlier today, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie told ABC Radio Mr Wellington should go to police if he had new information. "If he's got the evidence, parliament can't deal with the evidence, the authorities have to deal with the evidence," he said.