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.
The father of a man whose children died in a car driven by their mother has slammed a coroner’s findings into the tragedy.
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.
Threatening emails from one of the Wieambilla killers were not given to Qld police due to procedural requirements,a coroner has heard.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
The NSW coroner has presented the most detailed examination ever undertaken of the horrific scourge of domestic violence.
The man in charge of the tactical police response to the fatal Wieambilla siege has described how he feared the three shooters could escape into the community and potentially flee into NSW.