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‘Reprehensible’: Police allege Brisbane teacher abused 19 students
A single complaint led police to investigate a former Brisbane teacher who now stands accused of abusing 19 boys aged nine and 10 more than three decades ago.
- by Savannah Meacham
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Gunfire from ‘almost robotic’ shooters rocked armoured cop vehicle
The Wieambilla siege inquest hears police had considered whether any of the Trains were being held against their will but it seemed clear all three were there voluntarily.
- by Cheryl Goodenough
Man guilty of murder over scissors stabbing at Brisbane station
The man has been sentenced to life in prison after a late-night Fortitude Valley altercation turned deadly.
- by Rex Martinich
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Inquest
Emergency operator who took call during shooting saw another alert. Here’s why she didn’t check it immediately
A triple-zero call taker took two minutes to follow advice to tell Kerry Dare to get her husband back home during the Wieambilla shooting.
- by Cloe Read
Brisbane teen accused of using fake LGBTQ dating profile to rob people
Police have charged a 14-year-old Acacia Ridge boy who they allege arranged at least six meet-ups via a dating app to rob people.
- by Sean Parnell
Ex-Catholic brother jailed again for child sex abuse
A former Catholic brother convicted of sexually abusing 35 children more than three decades ago has been jailed again.
- by Cheryl Goodenough
Trapped shooting cop’s rescue risked by ‘blackspot’
The police commander responding to the deadly Wieambilla shootings was unable to order an officer’s rescue from likely death due to phone and radio blackspots, a coroner has heard.
- by Rex Martinich
Area near police shootings known for ‘mantraps’ and threats
Inquest is told a senior policeman approved a rescue mission for a young constable in danger of being shot or burned to death by a fire lit by the Trains to flush her out.
- by Rex Martinich
Police videos show final hours of Wieambilla shooters
A coroner investigating the shooting deaths of six people has released helicopter footage of the suspects’ final hours alive as they fired at police attempting to raid their remote property.
- by Rex Martinich
Men jailed over ‘toolbox’ deaths win verdict appeal
Drug dealers Cory Breton and Iuliana Triscaru were lured to a unit in Kingston, tortured, bound, and locked in a toolbox that was later dumped in a lagoon.
- by Laine Clark
Outgunned cop had ‘no alternative’ but to flee Wieambilla ambush
Under fire from men with high-powered rifles, Constable Randall Kirk recalled being taught his police-issue Glock could only shoot 15 metres with any accuracy.
- by Rex Martinich