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Subscriber only The brother of slain police officer Brett Forte wants no other family has to go through the same horror he has. He wants real change and wants police to be given more powers to do their job. In a bold plan to radically re-shape policing, Luke Forte wants legislative change to allow officers to press criminal charges against DV offenders - for crimes like assault or rape - in cases where the victim is too afraid to make a complaint. What I don t understand is that someone puts a needle in a strawberry and the laws change the next day. But domestic violence victims hide away in fear waiting for something to change. I want something done, he says.
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17:15 EDT, 11 April 2021
An inquest is set to begin into the deaths of Queensland police officer Brett Forte and the man who shot him four years ago.
Senior Constable Forte died after his vehicle was peppered with 27 bullets when Ricky Maddison opened fire with an automatic weapon in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, on May 29, 2017.
Maddison, 40, was shot dead by police the following day after being asked to surrender more than 80 times during a 20-hour siege.
Senior Constable Brett Forte (pictured left with his family) was shot dead by Ricky Maddison in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, on May 29, 2017