Inquest
Families criticise Queensland police, inquest over Wieambilla failings
“She wasn’t keen to go and we weren’t either, because we’d heard stories about the large number of people with guns in that community,” said one mother.
- by Cloe Read
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Vest ‘unlikely’ to have saved police shot at Wieambilla
The gunned-down officers were not wearing bullet-resistant vests at the time, and had yet to be issued with new vests that can be fitted with panels of armour.
- by Rex Martinich
Findings into death of four kids and mum a ‘waste of time’, says grandfather
The father of a man whose children died in a car driven by their mother has slammed a coroner’s findings into the tragedy.
- by Savannah Meacham
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Queensland Police
Killer family ‘fixated’ on police before Wieambilla shootings
A senior officer would have been alerted to a family of killers “fixated” on police if he had access to interstate reports before his colleagues were ambushed and killed, a coroner has been told.
- by Rex Martinich
Threatening emails not handed to Qld police before officers killed
Threatening emails from one of the Wieambilla killers were not given to Qld police due to procedural requirements, a coroner has heard.
- by Rex Martinich
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Courts
‘See you dead’ email seen by NSW cops before Qld shootings
Emails exchanged between the Train brothers contained insults directed toward police, accusing them of being corrupt since 1788, an inquest into the fatal Wieambilla siege has heard.
- by Rex Martinich
‘I just thought he was a keyboard warrior’: Emails before police shooting ‘incredibly disturbing’
The associate of a man who killed two police with his brother also received a text message that stated: “You sent people to kill us. Run”.
- by Rex Martinich
Wieambilla shooter’s brain wasn’t damaged by earlier heart attack, inquest hears
Nathaniel Train suffered a heart attack and had to be resuscitated 16 months before he took part in the 2022 shootings in which two police and Train’s neighbour were killed.
- by Rex Martinich
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Courts
‘I know it sounds nuts’: Wieambilla killers saw arrest as ‘worse than death’
An “apocalypse” in the form of a massive heart attack helped turn a successful teacher who respected police into a delusional recluse who fatally shot a junior officer.
- by Rex Martinich and Cheryl Goodenough
Gunfire from ‘almost robotic’ shooters rocked armoured cop vehicle
The Wieambilla siege inquest hears police had considered whether any of the Trains were being held against their will but it seemed clear all three were there voluntarily.
- by Cheryl Goodenough
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Domestic violence
The diary of a beloved young woman exposes a terrifying truth about 550 lost lives
The NSW coroner has presented the most detailed examination ever undertaken of the horrific scourge of domestic violence.
- by Perry Duffin
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