Forensic police have spent the day inspecting two properties in Melbourne's west and north-west related to Bourke Street attacker Hassan Khalif Shire Ali.
Initial police investigations into Friday’s Bourke Street terror attack show the offender,Hassan Khalif Shire Ali,failed to complete his proposed mission.
If not for the heavy police presence and TV news crews,passersby on Bourke Street on Saturday morning might have had no clue to the horror that unfolded there less than 24 hours ago.
The perpetrator of Friday's Bourke Street terrorist attack had a troubled relationship with his family and had complained of being chased by"unseen people with spears"in the weeks leading up to the deadly knife rampage.
Eyewitnesses to Friday afternoon's attack on Bourke Street share their tales.
Premier Daniel Andrews praised police and bystanders who desperately tried to stop a terrorist in Melbourne's CBD,saying the city will not be defined by"this act of evil".
One person is dead and two others injured after being stabbed by a man who was later fatally shot by police on Bourke Street in Melbourne's CBD.
Anti terror police were called into action but,as usual,it was street cops who led the city’s defence. And,as usual,ordinary citizens showed extraordinary bravery.
The suspect was shot by police after he attacked them and has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.
James Gargasoulas was calm,rational and not suffering from"drug-induced psychosis"two days after the Bourke Street incident,expert tells court.
On the opening day of the Supreme Court trial,a 13-person jury watched raw footage of real people dying and others suffering horrendous injuries.