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Dorothy ‘Cherry’ Groce was shot by police when they raided her house looking for her son. Four of her children were at home at the time, while her son was never charged. Cherry was left paralysed from the waist down. Two days of riots ensued as the community protested institutional racism and systemic injustice faced by Black people. In 2011, Mrs Groce contracted an infection which led to kidney failure, and she passed away on Easter Sunday. It was only in March 2014 that the Met Police apologised for the wrongful shooting – in July of that year an inquest jury concluded that eight police failures had led to Mrs Groce’s death.
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Life couldn’t be better for journalist and author Martin Scarsden. Semi-retired, he has been living with his partner Mandy and her two-year-old son Liam for the last 16 months in the big house above Port Silver that she inherited and they are now both renovating.
He is playing with Liam on the beach below the house when he gets two calls.
The first is from his former Sydney newspaper editor and mentor Max Fuller, who tells him he is on to a hot news story and wants his help. The second is a voicemail from Mandy, which is abruptly cut off with a scream.