Crime by Thomas Chamberlin, Kate Kyriacou 13th Apr 2021 4:57 AM
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Subscriber only A day before Ricky Maddison rounded on police officers with an SKS semiautomatic rifle, he led his best mate to the back of his car, unveiled a cache of guns and declared he was about to become big, big news . The chilling evidence emerged at an inquest into the 2017 deaths of Senior Constable Brett Forte and the man who killed him - along with a harrowing radio call in which an officer pleaded for help and claimed they were sitting ducks . Police in Toowoomba had not been told of his links to automatic weapons, with intelligence reports going back 10 years, the inquest was told.
 From the passenger seat, Senior Constable Cath Nielsen radioed through to the police communications centre asking for help from the police helicopter, PolAir. It doesn t feel good . like we re being led somewhere, she d said. Then the dust cleared and the silver 4WD was stopped. Maddison, holding an SKS automatic rifle, was standing beside it. The muzzle flashed and bullets flew. Dozens of them. Forty six rounds. Sen Const Forte threw the car into reverse and accelerated, accelerated until he hit an embankment and rolled. A bullet had hit him in the arm, another in the groin. Automatic gunfire! Automatic gunfire! one of the pursuing officers said into the radio.
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Crime by Thomas Chamberlin, Kate Kyriacou 13th Apr 2021 4:57 AM
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Subscriber only A day before Ricky Maddison rounded on police officers with an SKS semiautomatic rifle, he led his best mate to the back of his car, unveiled a cache of guns and declared he was about to become big, big news . The chilling evidence emerged at an inquest into the 2017 deaths of Senior Constable Brett Forte and the man who killed him - along with a harrowing radio call in which an officer pleaded for help and claimed they were sitting ducks . Police in Toowoomba had not been told of his links to automatic weapons, with intelligence reports going back 10 years, the inquest was told.