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.
The execution of police officer Brett Forte
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The execution of police officer Brett Forte
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News by Kate Kyriacou, Thomas Chamberlin 12th Apr 2021 12:16 PM
Premium Content  An inquest into the murder of Queensland policeman Senior Constable Brett Forte and the shooting death of paranoid gunman Ricky Maddison has heard the known criminal once poured fuel on his girlfriend in a domestic violence incident. Maddison was later shot following a 20-hour siege with Special Emergency Response Team officers. Brett Forte was killed near Toowoomba on May 29, 2017. Picture: Facebook The inquest heard 30 witnesses will give evidence during the inquest, which is scheduled to run for two weeks. Detective Senior Sergeant Fiona Hinshelwood, who oversaw a police investigation into the shootings, told the court Maddison had had numerous dealings with police over a number of years.
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.