THE HUNT BEGINS RICK Charles Maddison was a local crook who had been annoying police for years. He was known for being aggressive and mouthy. He knew bikies, his name had come up during drug raids and in 2007 he d been heard making a serious threat towards Sen-Sgt Stahlhut (Stahlhut would tell the inquest he did not know about this until 2017). He told people he was going to ambush the senior sergeant and other officers in a driveway. Maddison and a mate would hide behind mulch piles and take them out with an automatic weapon. That same year, the inquest was told Stahlhut wrote an intel report detailing information from a police informant that a man named Rick Matterson had possession of an automatic weapon.
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Man who killed officer expressed venom towards police in alcohol-fuelled rants, inquest hears
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Police officer Brett Forte, killed in a shooting incident west of Brisbane, May 29, 2017.
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An inquest into the death of Toowoomba police officer Brett Forte has heard of his killer s alcohol-fueled rants about police in the months before the fatal shooting in May 2017.
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The second day of the inquest hears from a friend of killer Ricky Maddison
Maddison was living in a shed on Adam Byatt s property at the time of the shooting
The inquest is examining the circumstances around the death of Senior Constable Brett Forte
Queensland cop complained he was âtold zipâ about search for his own killer
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A fallen Queensland police officer told his wife just days before he was murdered that he had been âtold zipâ about the search for his eventual killer because he was âin the B-Teamâ.
The coronial inquest into the death of Senior Constable Brett Forte and his killer, Ricky Maddison, also heard from a former colleague of the slain officer, who recounted walking past the killerâs hide-out while off-duty and out hiking a few days before the shooting.