Police name suspected driver after officer’s hit-and-run death
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Police have made a plea for public help to find the 33-year-old woman they believe was behind the wheel of an allegedly stolen hire car that hit and killed an officer north of Brisbane early on Saturday.
Skye Anne Wallis, who last lived in the Caboolture area, was named as the suspected driver by Detective Superintendent Craig Morrow on Sunday, less than 24 hours after another woman, who police believe was the only passenger, was charged with murder over the incident.
“Interestingly, the gates were last repaired some 37 years ago by the village blacksmith and engineer, John Wilson and Son Engineers.
“David Wilson remembers his father undertaking the work and as a young man helped him re-hang the gates back in 1983.”
On March 17, the project team of Knight, Humphrey and Wilson assembled at the church gates.
David’s oxy-acetylene bottles made short work of the task of removing the well rusted bolts.
After a “breakfast of Weetabix for strength” the team lifted the gates onto a low trailer, on loan from John Scrimshaw, for the journey to Bright Blast Cleaning in Terrington.