Train family had ‘intense motivation to kill police’ and were highly prepared for shooting ambush, state coroner told
Supt Timothy Partridge told the Wieambilla inquest that police lacked access to tactics that would have reduced the ‘extreme’ risk they faced.Supt Timothy Partridge told the Wieambilla inquest that police lacked access to tactics that would have reduced the ‘extreme’ risk they faced.at a remote property near Wieambilla was the most dangerous operation ever undertaken by Queensland’s specialist tactical police, an inquest into the deadly ambush has heard.
“It’s my view that the Sert response to the Wieambilla incident was the most dangerous operations that Sert’s ever been involved in, certainly in my experience, and the risk to Sert operators was extreme,” he said. On the afternoon of 12 December 2022, Stacey, Nathaniel and Gareth Train shot and killed two general duties police officer, Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow after laying in wait at their property, west of Brisbane, the inquest has heard.The inquest has heard the trio believed a variety of conspiracy theories, expressed a dislike for police, and subscribed to a fundamentalist version of Christianity, believing in an extreme form of ‘premillennialism’.
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