Body cameras show moment brothers Joshua and Joel Clavell shot by police
Dramatic footage captures the moment police shot two armed brothers in a showdown at a Murray River campsite, with one of the thugs threatening to behead an officer and urging them to open fire and make him a “martyr”.
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Dramatic footage from police body-worn cameras has been released showing the moment officers shot two brothers in a violent showdown at a Murray River campsite.
Joshua and Joel Clavell refused to drop their weapons and surrender when officers surrounded the pair at Richardson Bend Camping Ground, Barnawartha North, on June 12 last year.
“Put it down” and “drop it, mate”, the police members could repeatedly be heard saying as their guns were drawn on the siblings.
Joshua Clavell, 31, was a wanted man by counter-terrorism officers who had tracked him down to the remote campsite.
He had armed himself with a 30cm-long knife and Joel, 20, wielded a hatchet when they jumped from their car after ramming a police vehicle at speed.
Joel threatened to chop off the head of one of the officer’s, before challenging them to shoot him as he wanted to be “a martyr”.
He repeatedly called the police members “dogs” and “mutts”.
Both brothers were shot in the showdown, with prosecutor Kristie Churchill saying the police members were “in extreme fear for their lives”.
The footage was played in the County Court as the pair faced a pre-sentence hearing on Thursday.
Joshua has pleaded guilty to aggravated intentional exposure of a police officer to risk by driving and assault of an emergency worker.
Joel pleaded guilty to multiple assaulting emergency worker charges and three counts of making threats to kill.
As earlier revealed by the Herald Sun, the court heard the brothers were from South Australia and were the sons of notorious fugitive Rodney Clavell, who took his own life during a dramatic 2014 siege in the Adelaide CBD.
Mr Clavell Snr had escaped death when shot by police 10 years earlier.
Two of his other sons, Daniel and Richard, have done lengthy jail terms in South Australia for drugs, weapons and assault offences.
Joshua and Joel Clavell will be sentenced at a later date.
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