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Brett Forte inquest live updates: Cop âencouragedâ wanted man to get angry on the phone
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Cop âencouragedâ wanted man to get angry on the phone
The officer who spoke to Ricky Maddison on the phone on the day the gunman killed Senior Constable Brett Forte says he deliberately enraged the wanted man.
Maddison called the Toowoomba police station hours before he murdered Senior Constable Forte, and Sergeant Peter Jenkins spoke to him for a lengthy period.
Ricky Maddison was wanted for domestic violence offences when he killed Senior Constable Brett Forte.
Brett Forte s partner tells inquest his actions the day he was killed by Rick Maddison saved her life
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Senior Constable Brett Forte was killed in a shooting on May 29, 2017.
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The partner of a Queensland policeman killed by a gunman says the officer s actions shortly before his death saved her life.
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The coroner is investigating the circumstances of the deaths of Senior Constable Brett Forte and gunman Rick Maddison
Senior Constable Forte s partner said officer s knew it was a high-risk operation
The inquest is expected to hear evidence from other police officers involved in the case
âMy life was made a living hellâ: Police threats to slain officerâs on-duty partner
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After pulling her fatally wounded friend and on-duty partner from their mangled police vehicle, Senior Constable Catherine Nielsen needed support from her Toowoomba colleagues, instead, some chose to make threats and lie to her over how much they knew about the gunman responsible.
Senior Constable Nielsen described the late Senior Constable Brett Forte as âa very good friendâ and they had worked together in Toowoombaâs Tactical Crime Squad for âa number of yearsâ.
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.