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.
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